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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Kan family vacationing in France

    Color. People in a field of yellow flowers. CUs of people (unidentified). Countryside, river with a house. Men and women walk down a dirt road towards the camera, trees in BG. People walk in small groups - three women walk side by side and two men several paces behind them. Scenic shots of the countryside. People walk in the garden. 01:04:38 Group of men and women in a garden. Sundial, large white manor. People sitting in lawn chairs. 01:05:09 Robert on the far left and Betsy on the far right walking with their grandparents (Frits's parents). Grandma tosses a ball to Betsy who then tosses i...

  2. Verdoner family on vacation in the Alps

    Scenes from the Verdoner family's winter vacation, skiing in the Alps in Switzerland. VS of ski slopes and countryside. Hilde and Gerrit Verdoner are identifiable. VS of people lining up on the slopes, cross country skiing, climbing uphill, etc. Shot of ski lift and people getting on lift. VS of ski resort/lodge taken from the lift.

  3. US Army medics, trauma surgery

    Color footage. MCU moves out to MLS, and then a pan of destroyed equipment on the beach. VS, beach head and surrounding countryside, military vehicles and personnel in BG. Field full of rubble and artillery shells. CU, remains of a building stairwell, rubble surround the stairwell. END LS, from high angle, rooftops of an unidentified town. VS of the rooftops, a street and bridge below with civilians walking across it. VS, MCUs and CUs, the camera pans a church spire and other architectural details of the building. CUs of two American soldiers looking through the viewfinder atop the cathedra...

  4. Liberation of Dachau; Folk Festival in Czechoslovakia

    EXT, U.S. Army medical unit loads supplies onto trucks for transport. Snow on the ground; soldiers in winter gear, VS loading large wooden crates. VS, the convoy of medical unit trucks travels over difficult terrain, dirt and mud roads, etc. MS, a truck dumps a large amount of rubble onto a dirt road, soldiers [and possibly locals] shovel and level off the roads. LS, underexposed, supply trucks move along a road, mountains in BG. MS, captured German soldiers stand in line with their belongings, receive rations, interviewed by the liberating U.S. Army unit. Pan, several German soldiers look ...

  5. DC in wartime; various war news; Nazi sub spy trial

    Washington DC in Wartime. The Washington monument, view of official buildings. Street scenes, the Capitol seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. INT, crowded corridor of govt building. INT, Gen. George C. Marshall and Sec of War Henry Stimson confer. People exiting govt buildings. Policeman directly heavy traffic in street. 04:01:49 The Global War: Brazil. 04:02:42 US Army and RAF fly bombers to Britain 04:03:33 Nation Aids Rubber Drive 04:04:27 Trial of German Spies Saboteurs: VS, prison van and armed soldiers enter court building. Panel of unidentified Army officers conduct trial of Nazi spies. C...

  6. Yugoslavia: partisan soldiers; marching; dancing; villagers

    Reel 4: Partisan soldiers firing guns. Col. Jagos looking through glasses. Men placing artillery guns in position, horses, men marching. Partisan soldiers resting on roadside, sleeping, writing letters. Solders in trenches; dead German soldier. Soldiers eating lunch. Marching through Sotin; peasants watching as convoy of artillery guns and soldiers march through village. Villagers watching haystack and home burning. Soldier playing the accordion and singing, eating lunch, listening to music; people resting. Dead German soldiers. Soldiers dancing the "Kola" as accordionist plays. Group of pe...

  7. U.S. Army soldiers; surgery; hospital; Gen. Patton; liberated villagers

    CU of an open wound, the camera pulls back and pans the body, the wound is on a man's inner thigh, it is a large, open wound that penetrates several layers of muscle. The doctor lifts up the man's penis and cleans around the wound, prepping for surgery. The man is covered by a blanket from the waist up. CU of another wounded man with a small bandage on his head. He takes the bandage off and blood begins to stream down his forehead. The top of the man's head is out of frame, he continues to look directly at the camera, he is wearing a torn T-shirt. He reaches to put the bandage back on his h...

  8. Doll wig

    Julia Schor played with the wig while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  9. Goldlust family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England. Biographical material consists of Bernhard’s Foreigner passport (Fremden Pass), primarily postwar identification documents of Paula (some documents place her birth as 1928), an affidavit and related documents...

  10. Kan family on vacation in 1936

    Newspaper clipping: "22 Maart 1936 BEGIN VAN DE LENTE Dit jaar meer dan een symbolische datum. - Ook voor heden gunstige vooruitzichten." Betsy, Robert, and their grandfather (Jeanne's father) on a sidewalk. Betsy jumps rope and looks at the camera while Robert holds his grandfather's hand, skipping. The children, Jeanne, and her parents walk towards the camera down a different sidewalk. Trees/park; elderly man with cane. 01:00:18 Driving on road; people walk and bike on either side of the car. Several shots. 01:00:44 At the beach, Betsy digs in the sand with a shovel. She smiles and looks ...

  11. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey making his will public, speaking of importance of probate law. (filmed in studio)

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin; Soviet people

    Red Army scenes in Red Square: thousands of troops march, horses galloping. Extensive, good scenes. Scenes shot by Julien Bryan in the Soviet Union (also at Library of Congress) include women from ballet company bathing on beach. More of Red Army in Red Square. Julien Bryan footage along the Rhine River, with views of ruins, castles (Maeuseturm, Drachenfels) Maps, highlighting White Sea, Volga, Caucasus, Siberia, intercut with footage shot by Julien Bryan. Includes nurse with toddler; kindergarten children at small tables. Rare view of toppling of church domes during Soviet anti-religion ca...

  13. Helen Keller immortalized in marble!

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 17, Part 5. Release date, 02/20/1931. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs - New York, NY. Helen Keller immortalized in marble! Noted blind humanitarian poses for sculptured portrait. CU, Helen Keller posing. CU, conversing by finger code. CU, Helen Keller smiling. Other parts of newsreel include: 01:39:32 1: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge christens giant ship named for husband. 01:40:27 2: Idaho girl wins tahoe dog derby in driving snowstorm 01:41:28 4: News Paragraphs - Alexandria, VA 01:42:57 6: News Paragraphs - Miami, FL 01:43:46 7: New...

  14. Liberation: Germany; Czechoslovakia: Soviet and American Armies

    VS, high angle, woman in an overcoat walking down street; man in U.S. Army uniform holding a box, walking down street. Two separate shots of the woman walking. Cut to VS, pan of sky and clouds, for a brief moment a small plane is visible, flying low. Plane on an airstrip, the man in Army uniform seen earlier in a very LS walking on a concrete walkway between two buildings, presumably a U.S. Army base of some sort. Two airplanes are parked on the air strip. A group of boys and girls (4-6 years old) in FG, all dressed in red shorts and white shirts, walking hand in hand in an open field, tree...

  15. Verdoner family at home

    Yoka Verdoner and her mother Hilde, petting a horse that is pulling a green grocer's cart through the streets of Hilversum, Holland. Hilde purchases produce. EXT, clothing hanging on a clothesline. INT, VS, Francisca Verdoner being potty trained. VS, Francisca learning to walk with help from sister Yoka and father Gerrit Verdoner. VS, Yoka and Francisca bathing, blowing kisses to the camera, etc. EXT, VS, Francisca taking her first tentative steps alone, and then with the help of Yoka and Hilde.

  16. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    Headline reads, "Planes Pound Tunisia Without Let-Up As Allied Units Pierce Axis Defenses; Russians Push On In Bitter Battles"

  17. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs

    The Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs depict Hedy and her parents, Max and Mania Tugendhaft, in Poland (Rudnik, Krakow, and Jaslo) before the war; Mania, Hedy, and Jewish children at the Sacred Heart convent in Przemyśl during the war; Jewish child survivors at a Jewish orphanage in Przemyśl after liberation; and Hedy with other displaced persons in Heidelberg. Additional photographs depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a roundup of Jewish deportees in Ukraine, and three nuns at the St. Joseph convent in Przemyśl in 1987.

  18. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    Headline reads, "Roosevelt Acts Here To Put NRA Into Full Swing." Photograph of the "First Faculty of the University-in-Exile"

  19. Litman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Litman family of Zalishchyky, including their survival in Tovste and Jarosław, Poland with the use of false identification papers. Included are false identification papers identifying Olga Litman and her daughters Halina and Eva as Catholics with the last name Lityński, a work permit for Olga to work at a German military camp in Jarosław, DP identification cards, post-war British military papers of Ignacy Litman, marriage certificates, documents used for restitution, clippings, and photographs. The photographs consist of pre-war and ...

  20. Theresienstadt currency

    Contains seven bills of various denominations, issued in Theresienstadt in January 1943.