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Language of Description: English

  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Czech Army

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. SDP funeral; Czech Army.

  2. Ellsworth Kelly sculpture

    Ellsworth Kelly site specific sculpture commissioned by the United States Holocaust memorial Museum Art in Public Spaces program. The Art for Public Spaces Program was established to commission works of artistic merit that address the singularity of the Museum and contribute to the visitor's experience of the Museum in ways that are substantial and distinct from the permanent or special exhibitions. Four site-specific works of art, 'Memorial' being among them, were chosen by an independent jury comprised of contemporary art curators and specialists. The subcommittee included Holocaust survi...

  3. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 14: VS Farmer, standing on a stone platf...

  4. Gathering, sorting, burning books

    Two men go through stacks of books. Piles, books scattered all over room. CU, pan of books as they are sorted through. EXT, young men (probably university students) throw books onto truck. One man with SS armband. CU, books loaded onto truck. LS, Hitler Youth girls (BDM) marching by fire with banners, tossing books. Marchers throw torches into main fire. Goebbels speaks with animated gestures. Crowd throws books into fire. Elevated wide shots. Strong impression of books flying through the air in arcs into the fire. CU, bookthrowing.

  5. Nazi banner captured by an American soldier from a flag factory

  6. Jacket

    Worn after liberation in 1945 by Misha Mielup. Originally worn by Jewish police, 1943, St. Ottilien, Germany. Given to Misha Meilup while at hospital, St. Ottilien, Germany.

  7. Berestowitz, Poland: street scenes; people

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people and houses. "Shawls" "The Synagogue Center" VAR views of synagogue building. Men talk in the street, gesture at camera. MCU, woman in front of a house. MCU, family with children at sign readin...

  8. Warsaw city scenes; women with carriages; children

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. CU, baby in carriage. HAS courtyard with people. Monument/building. Grand view of the city. Arches. People walking about. Aerial shot of pedestrians walking in a park. Women with babies, rocking carriages. CU children. Women talking. Group of boys cross street. Pan up to church/castle/palace tower. CU boys with hats. More children pass by.

  9. War Crime Trial

    EXT Academy of Music. Trial scenes. Bela Imre, Jeno Racz, Pal Tider.

  10. Berestowitz, Poland: people; wagons

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "Somebody's Mother" VAR MCUs faces of townspeople. Street scene. CU elderly woman with scarf. "Grandpa" MCU old man and child. Carts with horses travel along a dirt road, creating dust clouds. Families on the carts. Some people walking. More carts pass by. MCU boy and mother pose in front of fence. Pan of horse-drawn (empty) wagon.

  11. Map of Buchenwald created after his liberation by a former inmate

    Map of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Drawn from memory immediately after Henry Glass's release in Feb. 1939.

  12. prewar Warsaw

    Partial reel (apparently with Yiddish sound track), of "A Day in Warsaw." Various scenes showing Jewish life in the city. Street scenes, markets, the Jewish quarter, newspapers, parks, synagogue, etc.

  13. Interior of ghetto, woman, children, lice

    Grim interiors of very poor, spare house, woman sewing, small children with thinning hair, girl picks lice from smaller child's head.

  14. Corpses carried in wagons, piled in shed, buried in pit

    Men load bodies onto wagon, pushing wagon down street by wall; little boy helps. More shots of corpses, loading on wagons. Wagon brought to central, primitive morgue, bodies unloaded. CU of piles of bodies. Line of hand carts with corpses brought to burial ground, bodies put into pit, as religious men look on. Putting layer of paper and dirt on bodies.

  15. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 2: 05:26:20 MS EXT of Germany's main bro...

  16. With Tito in Yugoslavia

    shows Marshall Tito and Yugoslav patriots. According to UN contents sheet: "At his secret mountain headquarters, somewhere in Yugolsavia, is the leader of the embattled Yugolsav Army of Liberation, Marshal Tito. Tito is shown here with the first Allied war correspondents to reach his headquarters.....As United Nations Armies close in on Nazi Germany...they owe much to a small but gallant people and their valiant leader...Marshal Tito."

  17. Exhumation at hospital

    Sign: Maros Utca 16 (address). Sign: X-ray. Exhumation by hospital. VO: Infamous hospital where the Arrow Cross committed murders. Mass graves exhumed in hospital garden. They killed helpless patients in their beds along with doctors and nurses. Former Arrow Cross members (waiting for trials) watch exhumation. CUs intercut with exhumation shots.

  18. Execution of War Criminals

    Bardossy, Szalasi and others (?) executed. Bardossy at ceremony in Music Academy. Szalasi at time of takeover at Royal Castle. Arrival from Germany. Scenes of the coutroom. Chain Bridge blown-up, destroyed buildings, dead bodies. Execution preparations, prisoners lead to posts, faces covered.

  19. Nazi hangs for murder

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 419. Release date, 07/26/1945. For murdering a Yank flyer who had parachuted to earth at Preist, Germany, a Nazi war criminal is hung on the gallows until dead. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Nazi Executed, Germany." The execution of one of three German civilians, Peter Kohn, Matthias Gierens, and Peter Bock, who were tried as war criminals after being judged guilty of murdering an American flier who safely parachuted to earth near Preist, Germany, is pictured here. Lt. Col. LV Roddy, Deputy Provost Marshal of the 15th Army officiates at t...

  20. Danzig and Warsaw city scenes

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. City scenes, traffic, pedestrians, shop fronts, kiosks with posters, gliders, horse-drawn wagons. LS town square. Pan, building. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. CU, signs in Polish. Policeman directing automobile traffic. Buses, bicycles, peddlers. Rain. People at storefront. Policemen conversing.