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  1. Isaiah Henig photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of people around the Bergen-Belsen memorial; a photograph of a decomposing corpse inside a metal box taken prior to burial; and three photographs of the funeral ceremony for prisoners who died on the death marches outside Munich in 1945.

  2. Moving train

    VAR shots of train moving along tracks; POV from rear, bucolic shots of train going through town. CUs of train switches, tracks, conductor, workers. Smiling, waving passengers and conductors. The narrator describes the train as the oldest light rail train in Germany. It travels twice a day between two cities in the area of Bonn.

  3. Hindenburg and von Papen vote

    Hindenburg and von Papen voting.

  4. Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet that was used in the Tarnow Ghetto

    Hanukiyah used in the Tarnow ghetto between March 1941 and September 1943. This Hanukiyah is an industrial menorah similar in design and composition to several made by Johannes Rominger in Stuttgart, Germany. A Hanukkah candelabrum holds eight candles for the eight nights of Hanukkah; the ninth candle is the Shamash [attendant] that is used to light the other candles. Because of their religious significance, the Hanukkah lights cannot be used for everyday needs, such as providing light. Traditionally, menorah refers only to the original seven branched lamp that stayed lit in the Temple; the...

  5. Nuremberg scenes: crowds; anti-Bolshevik exhibit

    Line of SS men control crowds along sidewalk. Medieval building and banners in view. Group of SA men passing along behind the SS. Top angle view of crowds, apparently in line to enter exhibition; includes SS men, SA men, civilians. Wide view of exhibition building with crowds in front, swastika banners, and the building-wide exhibit title: "Grosse Antibolschewistische Ausstellung" (Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition). Street level views of those waiting to see exhibition and moving along the street.

  6. Soviet POWs build bridge

    Soviet POWs walking into town past building with burning roof. LS slow pan buildings on fire. Soldiers working hard building a bridge. Soviet POWs and civilians help.

  7. Berlin scenes: train, Alexanderplatz, Woolworth, phone booth

    Berlin scenes. Train moving out of station. S-Bahn, elevated trains, street scene below. Street with train and overhead rail bridge with sign: HERTIE Am Alexanderplatz. Traffic police in white coat directing traffic. C&A store in background. People exiting from F.W. Woolworth Co. Women looking in window of Woolworth. Public telephone booth marked "Oeffentlicher Fernsprecher." Woman on telephone, wearing gloves, in booth. Vending machines for postage stamps on outside of phone booth. Men buying stamps, close shots.

  8. Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview

    (LIB 6554) First Religious Services, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Full screen view, crowd listening to services and voices of women singing "God Bless America" in English. MSs, various flags of Allied nations (US, Belgium, Spain, UK, USSR) flying from staffs held by attendants. CU, Belgian flag with "Dachau" written across center. LS, congregation singing "Hatikvah", the Jewish national anthem. A Hebrew prayer is read by a Rabbi David Max Eichhorn. Inmate Interview, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, speaks in English of his experience in the various Nazi ca...

  9. von Papen speaks at Reparations Conference, Lausanne

    von Papen reads a prepared speech to camera after the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, during which German reparation payments were officially suspended due to the financial crisis and worldwide economic depression. Portion of speech (transcribed by researcher): "Deutschland Schicksal ist das Schicksal der Welt; deutsche Not ist die Not der Welt; der Wohlstand der einzelnen Nation is der Wohlstand der Gesamheit. Die Arbeit der verantwortlichen Staatsmanner in Lausanne muss den Weg frei machen zur eine positive Zusammenarbeit die uns allein einer besseren Zukunft entgegenfuhren kann." [Tr...

  10. Buchenwald, Soldiers in Germany

    Various LS views of camp. CU of a searchlight, the camera pans down to the square of the camp, smaller searchlights are in the FG. Camera pans down to barracks and across the plaza. People are scattered and walking around. MS of a clock/tower (from side), closer shot. CU of a prisoner's back with marked coat (a square of striped fabric over a red X). There is a crowd behind him. Another survivor with similar marking on back (no X). CU of a survivor with a hat, explaining something, gesturing in a wheel-like motion with hands, a patch with an X is on her back, dancing around in a circle. CU ...

  11. Nighttime event in Olympic Stadium; display of jousting

    Olympic Stadium, Berlin. EXT, extreme LS, undercranked night scene, all actions occur at exaggerated rate of speed. HASs from a seat in the stadium. Night scenes, spotlighted entry into stadium, marchers with flags, horses, acrobats and figures in formation, running and jousting. In the last sequence the silhouetted heads/hats of the audience are visible in the FG.

  12. Hitler fireworks

    A band plays from sheet music by torchlight. Fireworks go off, reflected in a body of water. A fireworks display shows an eagle, atop Swastikas, atop the words "Heil Hitler".

  13. Hitler reviews SA

    Hitler reviews the SA (c. 1925) in Nuremberg. SA marching and saluting. A much better-quality version of this same footage can be found in Story 3788. Scene switches to communist party (KPD?) rally. Street violence erupts; police running down street. Camera focuses on a sign reading: "Attention! Prohibited area!" Shots of feet marching; more street violence, including a sequence that is a duplicate of one in Story 3760, Film ID 60, which is dated May 1, 1929. A brief shot of two religious Jews walking down the street, perhaps not related to other footage? See notes about quality.

  14. Goering/SA in Nuremberg

    SA march into Nuremberg. Goering in brown shirt leaves building. Goering in car.

  16. Von Papen speaks

    Title: "Reich Chancellor talks to you - Count von Papen declares through Movietone that all Germany asks is justice from the other nations." A format very similar to story 3729, in which Bruening speaks. Franz von Papen is shown seated at a desk and reads in English from a speech that he holds in his hands. He first dons and then removes his glasses toward the end of the speech. The camera moves closer after the first couple of sentences. He says he is glad to have the opportunity of "addressing a few words to the American public" and speaks of the "discriminating provisions of the Treaty o...

  17. Jews support the Hitler boycott

    A street demonstration in London by 50,000 Jews in favor of Hitler boycott. HASs, crowds gathered for demonstration, carrying placard reading "...in Hitler's eyes, Guilty of Treason". MSs, men in suits and hats parading through streets, women follow. Distributing leaflets. People standing on automobile.

  18. Oral history interview with Fraim Ronel

  19. Einstein leaves

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 128, Part 2. Release date, 03/16/1933. VCU Einstein with smiling older woman at his right; crowd mingling (seen from behind) then Einstein again. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:12:38 Rome, Italy "Excavations reveal priceless art ruins over 2000 years old" 01:13:09 New York, NY "Katherine Spector is chosen 'Queen Esther' in NY beauty contest" 01:13:52 San Pedro, CA "Admiral Leigh views US ships and planes in big Marine parade" 01:14:56 Miami, FL "'Dark Horse' winner of Florida Derby in final Hialeah event" 01:15:59 Clearwater, FL "Newark 'Bears' show ...

  20. Murdered prisoners buried by German civilians

    (LIB 5907) Murder, Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leave village. CUs dead, skulls, corpses. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians carrying bodies in cemetery. (LIB 5908) Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage. CUs, 2 survivors. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. Corpses in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, forced laborers, c...