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  1. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Unidentified footage, some in Warsaw. People walking in street. CUs of old man. Men working in street. Soft shots of Jewish men. CU of Jewish man (seen in newsreel). Unidentified footage of large group of Jewish men seated on ground (looks like round-up). Street scenes in Warsaw, Jewish district. German soldier directs people. Title: "Judentypen" CUs Jewish men on street. Shot of Warsaw main station. Title: "Mit der Kleinbahn zum HKD Gora-Calvaria" Flash of footage. Title: "Juden-Getto in Warschau" Street scene, pedestrians with armbands. CU sign: "Rogatschew" (seen before).

  2. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Street scene, pedestrians with armbands. CU sign: "Rogatschew" (seen before).

  3. Men undressed/examined; food, shops, cafe

    Sign and chart, "Fleckfieberkrankungen bei...Typhus. 1940 1941 1942" Interiors: VAR thin men and boys undress, CU dirty feet; naked, they are checked for lice, get rough haircuts. VAR CU and MCU men scratching, bone-thin naked bodies, lice-infested scalps. VAR modern sanatorium: ext views of building in tree-filled, sunny setting; patients on porch, blanketed, reading, nurses; people chatting, sitting outdoors on benches. People at food shop/indoor cafe; appealing display at counter; waiters serve well-dressed crowd at tables.

  4. Men undressed/examined; food, shops, cafe

    Sign and chart, "Fleckerflieberkrankungen bei...Typhus." Interiors: VAR thin men and boys undress, CU dirty feet; naked, they are checked for lice, get rough haircuts. VAR CU and MCU men scratching, bone-thin naked bodies, lice-infested scalps. VAR modern sanatorium: ext views of building in tree-filled, sunny setting; patients on porch, blanketed, reading, nurses; people chatting, sitting outdoors on benches. People at food shop/indoor cafe; appealing display at counter; waiters serve well-dressed crowd at tables.

  5. Ghetto conditions; soup kitchen; eating in street

    Various ghetto scenes: people, including children, eating in muddy and garbage-infested building courtyard. People line up for food at soup kitchen. Woman washes clothes in small tub. Woman sells food from stall heated by charcoal. Child takes food from wired street vendor box.

  6. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  7. 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.

  8. Immigration of the Polish Jews to Palestine

    Polish Jews immigrate to Palestine, locations in Constanza, Romania, and Mediterranean.

  9. Jewish district in Krakow

    Kazimierz, the predominantly Jewish area of Krakow, filmed by Julien Bryan. Men inside arched shop entrance. Various shots and CUs of people, with many Orthodox men on street, walking, talking, avoiding camera. Mixture of other people mingling and on the move. Market stall selling poultry in the main square in Kazimierz, synagogue in background. Market stalls and vendors. Street scenes, balloons, shops. Funeral procession for Marja Steinberger. Market scenes. Archway in alley. Various CUs Yeshiva boys, ECUs, smiles and laughter, talking to each other.

  10. Film about children in a sanatorium

    with French subtitles. Children in a sanatorium in Otwock the Warsaw district.

  11. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. Policeman passing quickly close to camera. Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two boys smiling awkwardly at camera, man with beard. Crowd on street, CU. Crowd walking, smiles and excitement. Men arm i...

  12. Removal to Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and...

  13. Deportation of Polish Jews

    Poor houses, exteriors. Interiors: Close views of jumbled belongings, straw, household objects, bedding, stove. 00:53:20 Close views of individuals in Poland - buildings in BG suggesting large town. Deportation. German trucks. Carts. Jewish people moving in lines, wearing light armbands (issued in General Government - eastern Poland), with sacks and bread. Uniformed Germans threaten individual Jews, including an elderly woman with a whip. Extensive views of deportation actions in towns in Poland; many different shots. 00:57:58 Jews sitting on ground, suitcase of currency; German seems to be...

  14. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    *The film was transferred backwards. Refer to the same film properly transferred on Film ID 2257. Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to "Fotografia" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. Two children s...

  15. Warsaw ghetto

    A Polish documentary about the creation and destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, 1939-1943, made for the 20th anniversary of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Incorporates archival footage, including Nazi newsreels and propaganda footage, with English narration and titles. Shows building a memorial to victims.

  16. Anniversary celebration of 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

    Second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The celebration at the synagogue in Roma (Rome?), the Polish soldiers of Anders Army fighting in the West take part.

  17. Julien Bryan footage of Warsaw

    Warsaw, forced labor, Polish POWs, Royal Castle in flames. People walking past dead horses in the street, general destruction, fires (including a church), people running in the streets.

  18. Jewish district in Palestine; Jabotinsky in Warsaw

    With Polish titles. Camel caravan across the desert. Jewish district in Palestine. Jerusalem, men praying at Wailing Wall. Destitute people. Nablus. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. Road or building construction. Jewish police in Tel Aviv: at attention, inspecting rifles. A Polish-Jewish settlement (kibbutz?). Agricultural labor, tents in a field. The Polish Consulate. 00:17:20 Zabotynski (Jabotinsky) in Warsaw. CU Uri Jabotinsky (son of Vladimir) in uniform. Seen at train, arriving. Shots of Jabotinsky posing uncomfortably for the camera. Huge crowds leave (cinema?) Colosseum, where Jabotinsky was spe...

  19. Burial of Torah scrolls in Jewish cemetery in Łódź

    Religious ceremony in Jewish cemetery in Łódź. Gathering desecrated Torah scrolls on carts. Burial of Torah scrolls, prayer shawls, in ceremony. Brief shot of entrance to the Jewish cemetery. Weeping onlookers. Cantor singing. See Photo Archives worksheet number 09147 for a still of this event. Big warehouse filled with descrated scrolls. Men unrolling damaged scrolls. Seemingly unrelated footage of men in track uniforms running a race precedes the Łódź footage.

  20. Burnt Polish villages; Polish government signing agreement

    Burnt Polish villages in 1944. Destroyed homes, children gathering firewood and water in the snow. Destroyed bridge, train tracks; large columns of refugees. New Polish government signing agreement in 1945.