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  1. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  2. Jewish family in Vienna, 1938

    Helen Hamerman in a hat and long coat on the streets of Vienna. She lived on Mariahilferstrasse. A sign reads, “FONTANA miralulbandlsgeschaft MEZZANIN,” with a small swastika in the upper left corner. She and another woman walk alongside a man, their arms linked. They all smile as they walk down the street. On a busy Vienna street a shop sign reads, “käsebäckerei.” [black for 15 seconds] Man seen earlier stands in front of a shop with a sign that reads, “VOLKSLESEHALLE FILM UND KINO ABTEILUNG.” He walks towards the camera and removes his hat. He observes the city. A couple climb into their ...

  3. Jewish family life after the war; Altalena ship on fire

    Hannah and baby exit a home (Israel?). Baby pushes a pram. 09:11 MS, crowd of people on the street, palm trees in BG. Menachem (?) plays with a collection of porcelain dolls and rides a carousel [poor VQ]. 10:18 Children play on a balcony (in Israel?). 11:34 MS, a ship on fire [probably the Altalena in June 1948], billowing smoke. 12:16 Child (sister of Menachem?) plays on the balcony, rides a tricycle, and pushes a toy wheelbarrow; the flowerpots contain mini flags of Israel. Some celebration (nursery school graduation?), women carry flowers and children eat an assortment of desserts.

  4. Jewish family life before the war in Budapest

    Intertitle: “Once Upon a Time.” Eva plays with leaves and placing them in a basket. Her mother, Lily Brust, stands next to her. She plays with a small rake and then sits in the basket of leaves. Intertitle reads “Vigyazzon Terez, elforik az uveg.” Three women labor over a table covered with jars, working to seal the lids. Intertitle reads “Évike az ö külön strandján nem akarodik kijönni.” Eva bathes and plays in an outdoor basin. She kicks the water and throws it playfully at her governess on the right. The governess helps her out of the water, dries her off with a towel, and dresses her. 0...

  5. Jewish family life in Germany before the war

    Car on the street, police directing traffic, trams, shop signs. People peer into shop window of Süsskind shop. Norbert, Erna, and her mother Bertha stand on a street corner. 01:00:26 INT, woman in front of a window. Man walks on a cobbled street with an overcoat thrown over his shoulder. Sally waves and runs backwards away from the camera. Alice, Erna, and Norbert joke and run on the street. INT, woman in an apron cleans dishes in the kitchen. [VQ shifts to poor] Alice in a drop-waist dress walks in yard, others gather. 01:01:26 Leo Greif, Bertha, and others get out of a car with Saarbrueck...

  6. Jewish family life pre-war; skiing

    Section 1 and 3: Eric Weyl smokes a cigarette while sitting at a table (continuation of shot in RG-60.1740 at 01:01:17). Two women outdoors in a wool coats and hats, snow on the ground, they walk along a sidewalk. The taller woman is Else Weyl, who later walks with her brother-in-law Paul Weyl, the man with spectacles. They make faces at the cameraman. Family members walk on the city street (shops, tram-lines), probably in Monchengladbach, and pose for the camera. In a park, Gertrude and her mother Elsa (Lieschen) Weyl walk down a path. They push Bernard Weyl, Eric's father, in a wheelchair...

  7. Jewish family vacations in southern France

    The Dutch-Jewish Bed family (Meijer, Kaatje, Elly (Jetje) and John) enjoys their vacation in a beach resort town in southern France, probably Juan les Pins. Beachgoers on the sand, under rows of sun umbrellas, and in the water. Jetje and John row a paddleboard/boat. Sand sculpture in the shape of a reclining woman. Sunbathers perform gymnastics. 03:43 Sign that says Hollywood in the BG. Kaatje (in plaid swim dress) walks into the surf while smiling at the camera. Meijer wades in the water. Kaatje rides a bike then sits at an outdoor bar (blurry). WS of a hilltop town. Waterfalls and a strea...

  8. Jewish family visits Paris

    Paris. People look at books or journals and artwork being sold by vendors along the street. Camera pans left on buildings lining the Seine River. Cars drive across the bridge. Camera tilts down onthe Fontaine du Palmier with a statute of victory standing at the top of the column. Paris streets with cars. A cat sits on a stone wall along the Seine. A French flag flies behind. Camera pans left on a Paris street. View from a bridge on the Seine. Four military men in long black coats and white feather hats walk through the street. Notre Dame with scaffolding along its front. A street sign reads...

  9. Jewish family visits relatives in London before the war

    David Cohen-Paraira and his daughter Ellis visit London in 1938 before Ellis started high school. Brief shot of Ellis and her father David. Spectators observe the changing of the guard in London. 01:07:03 Aunt Jessie (Jessica Vaugh) watering her garden. Jessie (a Scottish non-Jew) was married to David's brother Salomon. Ellis, her aunt, and her cousin, Pamela, play with a ball. 01:07:30 Ellis and Pamela wear equestrian riding clothes (Pamela rode horses as a hobby) and take tea in the garden. Uncle Salomon acts as a waiter. Quick shot of a boat. Salomon was killed during the Blitz in London.

  10. Jewish family visits Switzerland and Italy prewar

    In Switzerland, John and Jetje Bed walk toward the camera from the entrance to the Hotel Gotthard. Passing landscape and a sign reading “Bally” shot from a moving car or train. Views of Lucerne from a ferry. The ferry sails past the Vitznau, Switzerland mountain railway (Rigi Bahn) station. Dog sits on a dock and very steep rocky cliffs. The family exits a train in an (Italian?) town, CUs of each family member as they ride in a horse-drawn carriage. 04:14 John carries a box camera around his neck. John and Jetje play with pigeons in a town square. The family enjoys refreshments at an outdoo...

  11. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. INT of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films of t...

  12. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Interior of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films...

  13. Jewish folk dance performed by Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Intertitle: "The Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe is performing." Four Ukrainian couples performing Jewish folk dance; they are members of the official Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe. VS, group of young men and women performing traditional folk songs and dances for a large crowd. Shots alternate between the performers and the crowd cheering. Part of this story takes place in the small Ukrainian village of Dykan'ka in the Poltava Region

  14. Jewish forced labor

    VO starts with "Zuruck nach Polen..." Jewish kids gathered in front of building. MLS of older religious man all alone walking slowly down a street, light streams through a delicate little tree, through wooden fence. Propagandistic CUs of Jewish men. Old and young. Narrator describes the Jewish problem as the greatest facing Germany, and other typical antisemitic statements. Camera pans back and forth across unhappy young Jewish men in a clean-up crew, digging in city street, working near white fence, in ditch, etc.

  15. Jewish forced labor

    Jewish men get off of truck with shovels and begin to dig by the road. Religious Jew made to take off his shirt while digging (famous shot). CU, man rolling a rock up hill.

  16. Jewish forced labor

    CU Jewish men squinting into camera, sitting around, jackets folded in laps to display star patches. Star of David patches (larger than usual, for propaganda purposes) on backs of clothes. All the men are cleaning up large pieces of debris from the streets (fence posts, big pieces of wood, metal, some munitions shell casings). Shoveling, sweeping, pushing wagon filled with debris.

  17. Jewish forced labor

    Jewish forced labor brigades: diggers, forced labor, field work 1942/1943. Organization of means of transportation: equipment and personnel. Reorganization of the military guards.

  18. Jewish forced labor in Yugoslavia

    Jewish men clear rubble of fortress; thin yellow star armbands visible.

  19. Jewish forced laborers

    12:00:00 - 12:27:58 refer to M 3048 http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/3048#1 12:28:06 Cameraman films himself in the mirror. 12:30:53 Everyday winter, summer: staff eats outdoors, HK flag. 12:32:53 "Warsaw 52 KM", guard soldier presents rifle, market, winter, Jews. 12:37:58 Polish children at Landsern, dead horse, market day, winter, cart dirt, 12:44:12 Summer, Landser started, "bulletin board" stage. 12:48:10 Winter: column marching, house cleaning, field kitchen, Polish market, Winter, ruins, child in rags collects from garbage. 12:51:10 Polish market, winter, ruins. 12:52:11 shot unit. 12:5...

  20. Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam

    WS street with large street sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Another sign hanging sideways on a building: FUR WEHRMACHT VERBOTEN. DER KOMMANDANT DER STADT AMSTERDAM (Nazi headquarters in Amsterdam). Street scenes, well dressed man riding a bicycle. 03:32:01 CU of street sign: JUDENSTRASSE JOODSCHESTRAAT. People and children on street, some with Star of David on clothing. Woman pushing baby carriage, streetcar passing by sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Girls with Star of David on their coats eating ice cream. 03:32:39 MS open market with sign: TIJDENS MARKT VOOR JUDEN VERBODEN. Crowd of...