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Language of Description: English

  1. Refugee children

    This story contains the last minute of an 11 minute documentary piece. Children listening to radio (staged), narration in English. Scenes from Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw". Malnourished children, Russian children.

  2. Refugee children in the Middle East

    In Egypt, a tent city with Polish children. Daily activities in the tent city. Children at the beach, engaging in athletic activities, eating bread, playing, studying, working, etc. Field school. Polish soldiers. Refugees in tents. Sign: "TEHERAN 3 KM/WARSAWY 4,371 KM." Sign: "SZKOLA POWSZECHNA NO. 3." Visit by officials, CUs. Stage performance, children and adults performing Polish dances. Detailed cescription with original narration: 01:38:05 Narration begins in Polish: "One key responsibility of the Polish Army in the East is the caretaking of Polish children in exile. Thanks to whom wil...

  3. Refugees

    Iran: Group of women, children, few men, walking in sun, sand. Mountains in BG. CUs of faces, bare feet, hands, luggage and bundles. Arrival at refugee camp. Other refugees greet them, they embrace. CU of people exchanging kisses, particularly women and children, and greetings. Registration. VS, tents, washing, getting clothes, eating.

  4. Polish refugees

    Slate: African Mirror #216 "South Africa Provides Sanctuary." Camera: K. Sara. and scenes by courtesy of United News. Camp for Polish children, refugees in South Africa during a visit by Harry Lawrence, Minister of Interior. School scenes, children performing for the visitors. Hospital. Church service. Polish dances. Polish army marching (in Poland).

  5. German invasion of Poland

    This story consists of a montage of various shots of life in Poland depicting a prosperous, hard working Polish people engaged in everything from forging steel to threshing wheat. The tone shifts as the story shifts to the German invasion of Poland. Slate: "Why? Answering Humanity's Question." Produced and directed by A.E. Caraco. 1919, Polish Independence. Ruins. Mining, textile industry. Railways, city of Gdynia and its harbor. Polish navy. Submarine ORZEL. Nazi rise in city of Danzig. Danzig port (harbor). "JUDE" written on house walls. Danzig synagogue, voice over narration speaks of th...

  6. Polish refugee children

    Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war" American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, military school in Scotland. Unique shots include footage of emaciated boys in tattered clothing (at 01:11:13 and 01:11:27). These are Polish children deported to the Sovie...

  7. Majdanek at liberation; 1944 War Crimes Trial

    Majdanek camp after liberation, crematoriums. Polish Red Army with prisoners. The 1944 trial of six Nazi war criminals in charge of Majdanek camp outside Lublin. The trial takes place in Lublin. Charges are read in Polish, with views of defendants as they are named. Defendants speak in German (Polish subtitles). Concentration camp inmates (witnesses) sworn in. Man gives testimony, Jewish woman gives testimony. CUs of accused. Lawyer for the prosecution delivers his remarks. Sentencing to death. Public execution (by hanging) of five Nazis. Men swinging from the gallows' ropes, with a crowd o...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Refugees in Paris

    ORT, Jewish Society, Paris, France, 12 Rue des Saules. VS in the nursery of the society. Nurses giving children cod liver oil. Toddlers playing in indoor jungle gym. CU of children eating in dining hall. VS of class listening to lecture on wireless. CU portrait of Joseph Meyerovitch, founder of lecture courses at ORT. MS, dressmaking class. Young Jewish women learn to make artificial flowers, instructor hands flowers to Mr. Leon Frenkel, the ORT inspector general of professional instruction.

  9. Hitler addresses Reichstag; occupation of Czechoslovakia

    "1939" "Hitler Predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if War Occurs, 30 January 1939." Hitler speaking at Reichstag. 00:02:07 "President Hacha of Czechoslovakia arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler, 14 March 1939." Hacha walking in street lined with SS officers. CU, flag. Hacha gets into automobile. 00:02:34 "Occupation of Remainder of Czechoslovakia, 15 March 1939." Various newspaper headlines. Nazi soldiers on village road, on motorcycles and bicycles in winter. Officers conversing. Arriving in Prague with military vehicles, snowing, marching. Hitler riding in automobile, exit...

  10. Panel discussion with Taylor, Ferencz, Drinan, and Dershowitz

    Panel discussion: The Significance of Nuremberg, Principles and Precedents. Speakers include Telford Taylor, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Father Drinan, and Alan Dershowitz. Boston College Law School. Taylor discusses the judicial process as a step in the direction of an ordered world and peace (in his view, this was "the most significant accomplishment of Nuremberg"). Ferencz claims the fundamental principles established as a result of the Nuremberg judgments are a) aggressive war is a crime; b) crimes against humanity; c) head of state is responsible under law. Ferencz argues that the elaborate r...

  11. Ferencz lecture: Unitarian Forum

    Final lecture in the 1986 series, Unitarian Forum, San Francisco. Practical Programs for Peace. Benjamin Ferencz speaks about the evolution of the concept of world law, the role of the US constitution at Nuremberg, using law as the instrument for protection of peace, and what people can do today to effect peace. Ferencz emphasizes the need for social justice. He indicates law, courts, and enforcement as critical to the peace process. Responding to a question near the end of the session, Ferencz says, "It's my conviction that if humankind has the intelligence to develop the means of destroyi...

  12. Ferencz lecture: Unitarian Forum

    Final lecture in the 1986 series, Unitarian Forum, San Francisco. Practical Programs for Peace. Benjamin Ferencz speaks about the evolution of the concept of world law, the role of the US constitution at Nuremberg, using law as the instrument for protection of peace, and what people can do today to effect peace. Ferencz emphasizes the need for social justice. He indicates law, courts, and enforcement as critical to the peace process. Responding to a question near the end of the session, Ferencz says, "It's my conviction that if humankind has the intelligence to develop the means of destroyi...

  13. Ferencz interviewed by Rev. G. Arthur Hammons

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Rev. G. Arthur Hammons. Ferencz discusses his optimistic approach to world peace and explains guidelines to further world peace (as published in his "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). He claims the world should be governed by three principles: law, courts, and enforcement. Such an effective system will enable international law, and thus man's right to live in peace and dignity. Ferencz relates an important lesson learned at Nuremberg: "We are all our brothers' keepers." Ferencz argues that people, not the government, are responsible for effe...

  14. Ferencz interviewed by Richard Hudson

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Richard Hudson, executive director of the Center for War/Peace Studies. Sponsored by the Center for War/Peace Studies. Series discusses ways of enabling the United Nations to seek a world of peace with justice. Interview focuses on the Center's proposal of a binding triad system for global decision-making (included in Ferencz's book, "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). Ferencz describes two defining elements of his book: a) the bridge to peace involves three interlocking components: law, courts, and enforcement; b) if people are better inform...

  15. Ferencz lecture: Structures for a Peace Convocation

    Structures for a Peace Convocation conference, Washington, DC. Lecture: "What Structures Can Save the Environment, Promote Development, and Insure Human Rights?" Presider: Rev. Donald Harrington. Benjamin Ferencz states the principles established at Nuremberg: a) aggressive war is a crime; and b) crimes against humanity are punishable by law. He claims that world peace is "not so complicated" and calls for "world government" to enable international law and order. He reminds the audience to embrace our progress. Finally, Ferencz urges the public to favor time, compromise, and a willingness o...

  16. Ferencz interviewed by Russel Harvey

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Russel Harvey. Benjamin Ferencz expresses his concern for world peace. He demands that the world clearly define laws for human behavior, and thus for international fundamentals. Ferencz encourages education, common sense, recognition of progress in peace-making, rational processes for settling differences, and planetary thinking.

  17. Ferencz lecture: First Unitarian Congregation

    Lecture: "Peace, Planethood, and World Law: A Roadmap to the Future" First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Text scroll: "Benjamin Ferencz has dedicated a good portion of his life seeking a just and tranquil world society where all may live in peace and dignity, regardless of race or creed. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and saw active military service in World War II where he participated in the liberation of several Nazi concentration camps. At the age of 27, he became the chief prosecutor for the US in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. During this trial he cr...

  18. Ferencz discusses reunification of Germany

    One Germany. Host: Steven Roberts, US News and World Report, CBS News Nightwatch. Segment includes discussion among Roberts, Ambassador Jonathan Dean, US officer of the High Command in Germany who helped establish new German armed forces, Henry Kellerman, director of the office of German Public Affairs at the State Department in the early 1950s, and Benjamin Ferencz, prosecutor of Nazi war crime trials. The men discuss Germany as a single sovereign state. Topics include the causes that created a divided Germany, economic and social dislocation, reeducation of East Germany, democracy, and th...

  19. Ferencz discusses slave labor

    A BBC Production, aired November 11, 1990, 10:05 PM. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. British Prisoners of War who worked for the German company I.G. Farben now want compensation for their years as slave laborers. After the war Farben was forced to sell its assets, so the question of compensation was impossible. But since the unification of Germany Farben has been trying to re-claim lost assets estimated at two billion pounds. Joan Bakewell investigates the POWs hopes for compensation. Ferencz tells of the absence of a Nuremberg trial on behalf of the Brit...

  20. Ferencz lecture: Kean College

    First in a series of lectures by Benjamin Ferencz at Kean College, New Jersey. (Second lecture: RG-12.020*12). Ferencz speaks about the problems of our small planet, the difficulties for the environment, what progress has been made, and how people can curb hazardous habits and help the planet. He discusses the exploding population, dangerous consumption habits, and problems with disposal of waste. Besides education and awareness, Ferencz identifies the need to establish international law to control what happens to the planet. For example, he defines the Law of the Sea that determines who ca...