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Language of Description: English

  1. Views of Prague, Czechoslovakia

    Amateur footage of an unidentified origin. Brief glimpse of the city of Prague. Views of the Charles bridge, castle, pedestrians walking across the bridge, etc. The longest shot is a MS which focuses on a statue on the bridge. Another statue of the crucifixion of Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, with Hebrew writing.

  2. Placing grave markers at Lidice, postwar

    Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due to poor image quality. MCU, a man and two women seated on a horse drawn carriage, they are all wearing shawls, their heads are covered and they look away from the camera. VS, men, women and chi...

  3. Village festival; Communists; UNRRA; La Guardia in Czechoslovakia

    EXT, green, hilly countryside. CUs and LSs of people attending a fair or festival. Countryside as seen from car, snow-capped mountains. Graffiti mocking Hitler, includes caricature of Hitler with large puffy cheeks. Women washing rugs at a river. Train moving along tracks through town as people pass by. People going to a house of worship (not certain whether a church or a synagogue). People in horse drawn wagon. LS, house of worship. Woman and girl laying flowers at memorial with American flag (several takes). LS, field. Building "OBCHODNI DUM". Children in red shirts, some of the boys are ...

  4. Message from David Ben Gurion

    A message from David Ben Gurion. Talking head shot of David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Ben Gurion discusses the Israeli response to Egyptian aggression.

  5. Overseas visits of UJA Women's Commission

    Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. Eiffel Tower, scenes at orphanage, eating, drinking, playing. North Africa, clinic in the Mellah. Trachoma and ringworm treatments, school, hot meal in soup kitchen, kindergarten in Casablanca, ...

  6. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  7. JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls between offices, nurses, food, ambulance, housing, bulldozer. Naples and Marseilles, emigration preparation, ship at dock, ship sets sail. Bus, man in office at phone, back to teletype, Planes ...

  8. Forced confrontation, funerals of victims

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Funerals of victims of the SS in Cologne and Lindlar. German civilians are forced to walk past open caskets and aid in the religious processionals.

  9. Preliminary meeting of War Crimes Tribunal members

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of the Hamburg amusement park. In Berlin, the preliminary meeting of Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal members.

  10. First report of the Nuremberg Trials

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. First report of the Nuremberg Trials. Long establishing SEQ on court building (interiors and exteriors, security precautions, etc.). Entry of judges. The accused prisoner in the dock, identified by commentary. Court President (Geoffrey Lawrence) opens proceedings. The indictment is read. Defense lawyers confer with the accused, reading copies of the indictment.

  11. Verdict at Dachau trial

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. (Very brief) Forced open air cinema show in the jungle of Burma. "Dachauer Prozess: DAS URTEIL" The verdict at the conclusion of the trial of Dachau officials. Courtroom scenes, including numbered accused in the dock. 02:15:32 Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss (#1) 02:15:37 Josef Jarolin (#3) 02:15:50 Dr. Claus Schilling (#15) 02:16:11 Fritz Becher (#27). Witnesses give testimony (one identifies a defendant). Prisoner's mid-day meal. Verdict and sentences.

  12. Captured German officers; press; Belsen atrocities; forced confrontation

    War Pictorial News was the official newsreel sponsored by the British Ministry of Information and the US Office of War Information. Brief shots of soldiers placing branches on top of and inside a torpedo/plane, soldier getting inside. LSs, pan planes (silent). SEQ, with sound in English: Men in German uniform, including Doenitz, Jodl, and Hans Georg von Friedeberg (now POWs) exiting an airplane. Mass arrests of civilian officials. Men in courtyard and street marching. Nazi personalities exiting building with hands behind head, guarded by British soldiers with guns, civilians watching. Shots...

  13. Courting, rehabilitation, and the sick at Belsen

    British officer speaks to British MPs sitting in chairs in front of a building, smoking. VAR views, CUs. Sign reads HEADQUARTERS BELSEN CAMP. Women walking in street. Another tree-lined street with pedestrians, mostly soldiers and women. Entering building. Board reading, ARMY WELFARE SERVICE TONIGHT. Women in courtyard of camp. INT, British rehabilitation workers (women) providing survivors (women) with new clothing, shoes, hats. Woman helping boy with clothing. Survivors exiting, boarding truck, driving away, waving to camera. More similar sequences. British MPs and civilian women, courtin...

  14. Forced confrontation, cinema

    LS of town road filled with people walking down towards the camera, buildings on frame right. Various shots of inhabitants of Burgsteinfurt (Germany) in the streets being ordered, assembled, and directed by troops, standing in lines, walking orderly, entering cinema. Sign above cinema entrance reads "Belsen & Buchenwald." People being directed as they exit cinema. CUs facial as civilians exit. NOTE: Burgsteinfurt was called the "village of hate" in the B.L.A. magazine, "The Soldier," because of its silent but noticeable resentment of the British occupation. The military government began...

  15. Rehabilitation at Belsen Camp

    Pan over buildings. Pan across barrack square. MS of stable door, door opens, young woman begins to sweep entrance to stable. Interior shot of stable, being decorated by group of women with green branches. Curtains, tables, linens. MCU group of women sitting and standing around a bed inside barrack arranging branches and talking. Shot of barrack interior where multiple tables are set up in foreground and background, women having meal. Camera pans around room with flower arrangement in the middle, woman making bed, others, by window, repairing boots and shoes, sewing. CU of women playing car...

  16. Kindergarten, Concert Party at Belsen

    Kindergarten at Bergen-Belsen. Bus arriving with children. Children leaving bus, entering school. Board reading KINDERGARTEN 9-12 2-5. CU children at desks, drawing. Milk and cookies distributed by Miss S J Reekie, a British trained nurse and child welfare specialist, in a beret. Concert at Belsen. Stage in theater. Band playing to audience. Soldier with children in audience, woman and children in audience. Group of women surround man playing piano. Three girls dancing "Hoki-Koki." Polish woman dancing peasant dance. Girl singing and playing piano. Girl playing violin, CU.

  17. Petain's trial; War Crimes Tribunal charter

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Henri Petain's trial ends. Courtroom scenes and film of many prominent witnesses. Next scene shows a meeting in London where delegates sign the charter setting up the War Crimes Tribunal.

  18. Last day of the Belsen trial

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of a US experimental cable-assisted aircraft demonstration. Last day of the trial of Bergen-Belsen personnel. Preparations at the court in Nuremberg (visited by Robert Jackson) for the opening of the main War Crimes trials. Interior construction work, workers, views of cells and courtyard where prisoners will be allowed to exercise.

  19. UNRRA work in Europe

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Brief shots of fires used by Britain as defense against invasion in 1940. Work of UNRRA in Europe: camp in Germany for refugees and displaced persons; food supplies sent to Austria.

  20. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    A Crown Film Unit Production. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, Displaced Persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, guarded by a soldier. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. More refugees, smiles beaming (sta...