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  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Assistance to refugees.

  2. Justice Hughes gets award

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 941. Release date, 12/29/1940. Justice Hughes receives an award and delivers a speech on democracy.

  3. Arrests and prison scenes

    Arrests and prison scenes. Jewish police arresting child, adults. Prisoners brought to ghetto jail. HA pan, market to prison yard. CU sign: "Arrestanstalt." Germans and police. Jewish police make prisoners run out of door. Young and very poor prisoners are lined up, forced to walk in circle. Similar shots of women prisoners. CUs of prisoners in prison.

  4. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees & fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Unrest; refugees; fascists.

  5. Sam Verstaendig collection

    Sam Verstaendig collection consists of photographs of the Verstaendig family of Tarnów, Poland. Also included are photographs of a Jewish cemetery and memorial in Tarnów, as well as a sample of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip.

  6. Luftwaffe in Romania

    MLS Plane with German markings taxis in on runway. MS German General Galland climbs out from belly of plane, MS walks over to greeting committee which includes German and Romanian officers and shakes hands. CU as Galland speaks to German Luftwaffe officer. MS Officers standing together under prop of plane, they walk away. 6:51:17 German General, Prof. Sauerbruch "Medical General" visits wounded in Romanian hospital, talks to hospital staff, examines an X-ray, observes patients in whirlpool. Visits prosthesis workshop.

  7. UFA Anschluss footage

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria" (UFA Newsreel), Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration: "UFA Heldengedenktag" Ceremonies to honor war dead. Large wreaths laid. CU Goering lays wreath for Hitler at soldier's memorial. CU, iron cross on banner. Goering delivers address. View of St. Stephen's cathedral; Vienna; cheering and saluting crowds; waving kerchiefs, kids clinging to statue; crowds. Animated map shows Austria joined to Germany: "ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer." Various shots of Nazis taking over towns; German soldiers cross the border to enthusiastic welcome...

  8. Suffering of Romani people after 1943

    Roma encampment, mostly women and children prior to being moved into enclosed (fenced) camp. Smoky campsite, VS of tents with women cooking, children look at camera. One women lights cigarette, pan to group of children, another tent. Woman in colorful blouse with water container. Tents in BG. Kids smile as she goes by, CU of container. MLS pan of campsite area, soldiers in BG. Women and children lined up for group portrait. MS of large badly damaged building.

  9. Danzig and Warsaw street scenes

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Girls march with swastika flag. Street scenes in Danzig, probably Jewish district. People looking in shop windows, mostly textile goods, pedestrians and traffic reflected in windows. Hat shop, sign reads STERNFELD. Street seller. Slow pan in narrow street, shop signs have Jewish names. Women looking in windows (people appear to be mostly middle class). Signs are in German. General street scenes in Danzig, squares, churches, trams. Store sign reads MAX WALTER, mannequins...

  10. Ghetto street scenes

    VAR pedestrians walking toward camera on crowded sidewalk in the ghetto, incl many young boys in rags. Well-dressed women sit in rickshaw, then very poor thin woman walks alongside. All look uncomfortably into camera. Vertical pan of poorer woman swathed in rags. Bearded old man carrying a bundle passes camera. HA of tram through busy ghetto street. (Tram car is identified with large Star of David.) MLS woman lying on sidewalk, ignored by many pedestrians passing by. Shot through window grate bars, view of street vendor and his cart. HA horse-drawn trolley, tram, and other traffic on street...

  11. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Prague

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Prague; gas masks; books.

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  13. Russian Collaborator General Vlasov in Czechoslovakia

    Russian General Vlasov visits Germany and Czechoslovakia Reel 1: 4:47:35 German Air Force ace Maj. Walter Novotny receives award, visits Hitler with his parents, in military parade, then shot of his casket at funeral, CU of inscription (looks like "Hero"). 4:49:00 MS Soviet General Vlasov reviews troops in Prague. 4:49:07 LS Large hall in Prague full of officials (Gen Vlasov is walking through, seated officers include (Karl Frank?). LS Vlasov reading statement, CUs of various officials, CU Vlasov. 4:49:46 CU Flags LS Vlasov enters thru audience, banner in balcony. LS and CUs as Vlasov makes...

  14. Soviet Army wrist compass used by a young Jewish Lithuanian partisan

    Soviet Army wrist compass used by Khona Padison, a young Jewish partisan in Rudnicki forest near Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, from December 1943 to June 1944. The compass was given to Khona by a Soviet prisoner of war so that he could scout for their resistance group, Death to the Invaders. In June 1941, Germany occupied Lithuania. Khona, his parents Perets and Rakhel, and sister Hena were forced into the sealed ghetto. In fall 1943, Khona and his father escaped shortly before the ghetto was converted into Kauen concentration camp. They became members of Death to the Invaders resistance unit ...

  15. Jewish refugees to Palestine

    Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David patch on jacket. Representatives wearing HIAS armpatches. LS Ship Providence which will be taking these legal immigrants to Palestine. LS crowd of passengers lining up at foot of gangplank. CU a...

  16. Spanish General; Spanish Street Scene

    00:04:05 - 00:04:50 MCU General Weyler, Spanish General, who fought against the Americans in War of 1898. 00:04:53 - 00:05:49 Horsedrawn carriages with women in fancy traditional costume (mantilla, etc.). A few people sell flowers from pots balanced on their head.

  17. Romani orchestra in restaurant

    MS, MCU, and CU of several takes of Romani people ("gypsies" according to USC catalog) playing in a small "orchestra" in a not-very-busy restaurant. Musicians dressed in suits.

  18. Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Allies Study Post-war Security

    Part 1: Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinus, Alexander Cadogan, and Andrei Gromyko attend the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, DC. According to UN contents sheet: "To conferences in Washington came Soviet Ambassdor Andrei Gromyko and a Russian delegation. Wth United States Under Secretary of State Stettinus and representatives of Great Britain, the three Allied nations are meeting here, at Dumbarton Oaks, to study world security and formulate a tentative United Nations proposal."

  19. Black Legion; Award Ceremony

    Black Legion members receiving medals at ceremony. 01:24:07 Officer giving awards to a line of soldiers at attention. Large crowd of civilians watching. Village nestled against foot of mountain in BG. MCU of men receiving medals and saluting. Max Lubovitch (commandent of Jasenovac) in attendance. Rows of black-shirted recipients. 01:26:18 March past Nazi officer. Nazi reviews troops, local civilians watch. Banners. CU, civilians delivering speech to assembled people. MS monument, shots of soldiers strolling thru town.

  20. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Berchtesgaden

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Berchtesgaden deal.