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  1. Inauguration of Jewish Hospital

    Opens with a number of intertitles, written in Romanian, describing the event. The inauguration of a Jewish Hospital on 1 September 1931. Men speak from a podium at the opening day activities. There are VS, panning the audience, made up of benefactors, etc. Many shots focus on the women in the audience, audience members stare directly at camera, often with a stern look. Each speaker is proceeded by an intertitle, giving their name, rank, affiliation with the hospital, etc. Some of the featured speakers are as follows: Dr. Iosif Sebestyen, President of the Hospital Committee; Dr. Sebestyen J...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- MOMA Film Library and the motion picture industry

    Title: "Special Academy Award, RKO Radio Pictures. TIME the weekly news magazine presents a new kind of pictorial journalism. In this issue, The Movies March On! The March of Time, New York City." MLSs, street scenes, Fifth Ave, NYC, entrance to MOMA, the "spanking new home" for modern art, "no dusty storehouse for old masters." CU, sign above entrance to the film library. VS of Abbott and Barry at work, screening films, smoking and discussing films. VS, the MOMA vaults, CU of film cans. A clip from "The Great Train Robbery" is shown. VS, studio lots, production in progress on the set of a ...

  3. Deportation of Jews

    Deportation of Polish Jews. Scenes of men, women, and children walking quickly towards train, and along a train platform with bundles, entering trains, views from inside railcars as people are loaded in. Doors are closed by uniformed German SS, Reichsbahn officials, and Polish Blue policemen. Many shots of women and children. People are wearing armbands. Close view of bar on closed railcar door, close pan along wooden car. NOTE: From 01:09:21 to 01:10:03 is black and white footage shot in 1955 at Auschwitz and Majdanek for the film "Night and Fog." The scenes shown in the film are in color.

  4. Jews (Refugees? Deportees?) moving along a city street with belongings

    Wartime. Large group of Jews being moved along a city street with bundles, children, scarves, etc. Busy, a lot of activity. Medium close view of 2 or 3 people in a closed space, presumably refugees or deportees. People moving along a train platform, German military man in foreground.

  5. Jews in train station, Westerbork?

    Wartime deportation. Westerbork or Warsaw? (there are no records from Bundesarchiv that substantiate either location). Well-known footage of men, women and children on train platform. Jewish stars visible on clothing (patches). Nazis checking ID papers.

  6. Warsaw Ghetto scenes; Civilians drag a Jew in the street in Riga

    Wartime, Warsaw Ghetto: Tracking shots of streets in the ghetto. Crowded sidewalk, alleyway. Pedestrian traffic. Bridge over an "Aryan" street. Warsaw scenes end at 01:07:47. Germans in uniform smashing a wood fence, location unknown. Riga, Latvia: Local civilians drag a (Jewish) man through the street, watched by uniformed Germans.

  7. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews to Transnistria

    Forced march of Bessarabian Jews in the area of Balti, Romania, part of the deportations to Transnistria, late fall, 1941. Long line of impoverished people moving along a country road and over a low wooden bridge. Some are barefoot. Most carry bundles. They are guarded by a few Romanian soldiers. Pan of a seemingly endless line of people stretching back to the horizon. 01:10:42-01:11:07 Brief shots of Trzebinia camp, EXT. Trzebinia was a sub-camp or satellite of Auschwitz and was in operation from 1942 to January 1945. 700 Jews worked there.

  8. Deportees; scenes suggesting Warsaw Ghetto in flames; rubble

    Wartime. VLS from ceiling rafters of enormous barn-like room filled with refugees/ deportees (?) and their bundles. Soldiers in action, various locations (probably including USSR, Berlin, many countries), edited to represent the attack on the Warsaw Ghetto during the Uprising, and intercut with contemporary shots of smoke blowing across closeup portions of Rappaport sculpture commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Night time shot of buildings on fire (various locations; unclear if any is actually the Warsaw Ghetto). Expanse of rubble after the ghetto was destroyed and razed, likewise int...

  9. Warsaw Ghetto; Jewish boys in ghetto prison

    Jewish boys being herded out of the ghetto prison. CUs of emaciated boys crowded in a prison cell.

  10. German Jews prior to deportation to Riga

    Assembly and arrival of Jews at collection center located on the Killesberg (mountain), outside city limits of Stuttgart. Scenes are prior to their deportation to Riga, Latvia, in November 1941. Film was commissioned by the Stuttgart city propaganda office.

  11. Propaganda filming of the Warsaw Ghetto: arrivals; Jewish Council; police; prison

    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish gr...

  12. Propaganda filming of the Warsaw Ghetto: prison; street; corpses; burial

    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish gr...

  13. Planes on airfield; "Deutsche Lufthansa"

    VS, Tempelhof Airport and airstrip. Sign on building: "Deutsche Lufthansa." Airfield; fuel truck marked "Stanavo." Several small propeller planes taxiing on runway; various views. Swastikas visible on the tails of most of the planes. One plane with name written on side "Vogelsberg." MCUs, maintenance crew, fueling plane. One mechanic on wing of aircraft, working on plane that is parked on airstrip.

  14. Students of private Jewish school (Goldschmidt School), Berlin

    Berlin, Germany. Brief glimpse of Goldschmidt Jewish Private School classroom interior, female students, including a very short view of Trudi Goldschmidt (profile, blond), daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during a break. Students relaxing, moving around yard. Students entering school. Close side views of many faces of adolescent age students, looking at the camera as they pass by. Classroom interiors, girls seated at desks. Girl in plaid dress stands to approach blackboard (we have identified her current name as Margot Segall). Jüdische Privatsch...

  15. Berlin street scenes; Woolworth storefront

    F. W. Woolworth Co. across top of store front. Shop windows, shoppers and passersby. (black screen between 01:01:20 and 01:01:23) Street scene with Brandenburg Gate. Vehicular traffic passing in both directions. Automobiles, double decker busses.

  16. Construction and industry views; airship

    Man cementing a low wall, possibly in Berlin. WS of industrial area with tall smokestacks. Close views of construction of framework for airship, inside hangar in Friedrichshafen. Hangar doors opened to reveal nose of airship (dirigible). Men working on propeller in Berlin. Man working on tail flaps, marked with swastika.

  17. 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.

  18. Pre-war Poland

    Clips from a documentary compilation presenting an idyllic view of the Polish countryside and civilization which Poles in exile in Great Britain were fighting for. Countryside, villages, peasants in their national costumes. River banks at Warsaw. Architectural details- LECIZNICA (letters on building). Street scenes, parks (very picturesque). Views of Krakow, wide, sweeping pans from high over city. Wawel castle, VS of architecture. Views of monastery.

  19. Pre-war Poland

    Wilno: pre-war views. Architectural landmarks. Narrow, curved streets. Cemetery on outskirts where Marshal Pilsudski's heart is buried. Arabian horses in Janow. Narrated by Eva Curie.

  20. Invasion of Poland

    German troops opening border gate (Polish border)- well-known footage. Troops marching in. Planes taking off. Burning buildings. Tanks crossing a river.