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  1. German students measuring skull, nose, teeth

    Children in circle with teacher, dancing, singing. German students/scientists on rural assigment, with measuring tools. Inspecting woman's teeth, measuring girl's head, height, nose. Peasants farming, hay. Filmed for German television use.

  2. Hitler Youth

    HJ, motorcycle. Boys reading newspaper, eating, trombone, equipment & uniforms on the street.

  3. Jewish life in small town

    Snow on ground. People clearing the streets, chopping ice on a pond. Horse-drawn wagon in the street. Man dragging a sled with firewood. Stars of David plainly visible on clothing. Heavy snow falling; young boy posing for camera.

  4. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews to Transnistria

    Low aerial shots from an airplane show the destroyed city of Balti. Pan across dead bodies, with the narration that the KPU (communists) and their "Jewish helpers" had perpetrated the murders. The next shot shows the forced march of Bessarabian Jews in the area of Balti, Romania, part of the deportations to Transnistria, late fall, 1941. The narration describes how these "eastern Jewish types" overran Europe after World War I and attempted to destroy the culture of the non-Jews. Long line of impoverished people moving along a country road and over a low wooden bridge. Some are barefoot. Mos...

  5. DPs at Bremerhaven port

    Boat dock, Bremerhaven port. "Meet the first DPs" "Ship to Freedom" Numbers on tags pinned to coats of refugees. Suitcases, boarding ship, shots on board ship, ship leaves port.

  6. Touring Vienna and Austria

    COLOR family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family posing in front of gardens in Vienna, plaza, "Blumen" stand, chalets. 01:15:22 Jacob, his wife, and two daughters walking towards camera. Two boys (probably Herz relatives living in Vienna). Swimming at the beach. 01:17:32 Herz girls and two boys walking around garden in German folk costumes and lederhosen in front of "Kointech" building. "Das Haus" sign. Strolling through town. Parade.

  7. Goldschmidt School

    Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.

  8. Hitler visits Latvia in July 1941

    Title with names of cameramen/journalists (some off screen): "Breselow, Burckhardt, Elsigan, Empter, Epkens, Helmut Fischer, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Geer, Gerhard Haller, Heere, Iffland, Jansen, Jonak, Jung, Kester, Klicks, Langner, Leske, Loesche, Loos, Lusteck, Nischwitz, Noak, Onasch, V. Pebal, Peters, Petrusch, Proszkowski, Pruefer, Ramhorst, Sakeus, Hans Schmid, Schneider, Werner Scholz, Selbach, Selle, Tann, Thomassen, Weil, Wild, Wilke, Zumpe" 01:00:40 Hitler visiting troops in the East at Malnava in Latvia at HQ of Army, Group North on July 21, 1941. He is lands and gets into a car. H...

  9. Polish prewar Catholic film: gathering, ceremony, celebration, speech

    Polish titles, mainly music track. Opens with quote from Ignacy Moscicki. Church seen from various angles. Madonna and child superimposed in the sky above the town. Religious procession along a road and in boats down a river, to 00:24:23. Singing. Bells tolling 00:26:15. Townspeople stream along the streets towards the ceremony. Train coming down the tracks. Children in ethnic costume present flowers to honored guest. A plaque bearing the name of Jozef Pilsudski (who died in 1935) is unveiled, former head of the Polish government and Poland's representative at Versailles. Man gives a speech...

  10. Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936

    TRIMS beginning with a quick glimpse of store fronts in the Jewish quarter in Krakow. This is followed by several shots of architecture in Warsaw, then a CU of an incense burner in a Catholic procession in Lowicz. The scene then returns to Warsaw: street scene, kiosk, poster advertising a theatrical performance. MS, policeman on horseback, using the horse as crowd control, people are gathered. CU molten zinc being smelted in a furnace at the Giesche Mine and Refinery in Katowice. LS, Gdansk, establishing shot along the waterway. MCU and CU of dockworkers in Gdynia, loading materials onto sh...

  11. French children in a youth camp, postwar

    This series of outtakes features adolescents (both male and female) in the mountains in France playing volleyball and other sports, dancing, singing and engaging in various outdoor activities at a youth camp. The exact location of this camp in France is not known. In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. This footage has obviously been staged for the camera. The camera slates between takes indicate that this production was done in conjunction with the YMCA, which explains the focus on youth and their healthy development; the footage was most likely intended for use in an informa...

  12. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. located in Warsaw, Poland. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. 01:04:23:17 MLS of a destroyed area of Warsaw; it seems to be a bridge over one portion of the river and an entrance into the city from an outlying suburb. Polish soldiers on horseback patrol the bridge, some people are walking along the bridge, one cyclist passes b...

  13. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    INT, hospital scenes- a pregnant woman lies in a hospital ward- these are scenes from the Catholic hospital that was destroyed in Warsaw during the German air attacks in September of 1939. Lying next to the pregnant woman is a wounded man. VS of the wounded being cared for by nurses in the hospital. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers and their newborn babies are seated on the tile floors of the hospital corridors. VS, CUs of mothers with their infants, some with a doctor as well: this is all mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "S...

  14. Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda

    Sequence of outtakes. VS, CUs of a brochure for the Goldschmidt Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. CU of a piece of zinc ore in someone's hand as they demonstrate the contours of the rock. CU of a propaganda poster with Hitler and past German leaders. CU of Julien Bryan's passport from his travels through Europe. He flips through page by page. CU of someone holding the newspaper DER STUERMER, featuring Anti-Semitic propaganda and caricatures of Jews on the front page. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. Ends on a CU of a caricatu...

  15. Dutch war volunteers; Italian coast; German troops; Eastern Front; Russian prisoners

    Reel 2: Part 7 continued from Story 3712, crews take off. 01:11:04 Part 1, plane of Captain Leopold Fellerer (Knight's Cross) lands; he is greeted by other pilots. 01:11:37 Part 2, Italy: supply trucks of the NSKK underway with supplies, loading of heavy artillery shells on trucks; artillery position on the Italian coast; preparations of defensive positions; camouflage of a tank; enemy planes attack; anti-aircraft fire, German fighters attack; bombing, shot of stick of bombs hitting a ridge; a bomber is shot down; pieces of wreckage; fighter base; return of fighters; on leave at a ski area;...

  16. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, MS, IRO refugee processing center. Several displaced persons gather around the Canadian representatives at their desk at the processing center (staged). The two representatives answer questions from the group, made up mostly of young men, and a few young women. MCU, two young refugees talk to the representatives. EXT, LS, DP camp Ebelsberg in Linz, Austria. Refugees gather with their belongings to begin their journey to Canada. VS, refugees helping each other close and label their luggage for the journey. The refugees load into open trucks in order to make the trip to the train station...

  17. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Folk dancers in Zakopane, the southern Polish region near the Carpathian/Tatras mountain ranges. They dance in a circle around a cross. VS dancing. Several shots are in slow motion. 01:13:54 Quick shot of three male dancers playing with their hats and horsing around, taking a break from dancing. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles.

  18. Ruhr; shipbuilding; Doenitz; Dutch war volunteers; Rommel; troops

    Reel 1: Part 1, 10th anniversary of the death of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost; still photos of Troost and shots of the House of German Art and the Koenigliche Platz in Munich. 01:02:06 Part 2, The Ruhr: Captain Ruempler (Oak Leaves) and his comrades visit a mine, and go underground; shots of the miners and the soldiers. 01:02:50 Part 3, Germany: report on the hard and dangerous work of stevedoring; loading and unloading ships; ships with the coat of arms of Bremen. 01:03:40 Part 4, Stettin: Day of maritime transport, January 19, 1944; Admiral Doenitz speaks (no original sound); among the au...

  19. Krakow street scenes; children; shops

    In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Most of the girls have their backs to the camera. Some boys in the group also wear berets. Shop windows, no sign is visible in its entirety. LS, more of the schoolchildren on their outing. MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. The people linger before going inside.

  20. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    EXT, VS night time scenes of the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. The Germans deliberately chose this day to set the Jewish quarter on fire, burning and destroying more than 20 full city blocks. Camera pans, but it is difficult to make out the shadows, at 01:16:45:14 there is a more vivid shot of the flames, illuminating a street lamp.