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  1. USHMM compilation for AMIA Screening Night 2002

    Compilation of Museum's archival footage screened at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Boston, MA in 2002. The film was presented by Raye Farr and shows segments from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including the Greenland expedition [Zabin Collection] and Goering footage [Bechtler Collection].

  2. Bastille Day parade; World's Fair; touring Paris

    HAS of the Bastille Day parade on July 14, 1937 in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower and Trocadero fountains. Edita Hartmann poses in front of the Eiffel Tower. 1937 World’s Fair, including the German, Romanian, and USSR pavilions. Crowds at the fair followed by more tourist sites in Paris. Jiri and Jan play tennis against their father, launch a kayak. A few seconds of the Popeye cartoon that begins Film ID 4330.

  3. ORT vocational schools

    A film about the ORT vocational schools in the US Zone of Germany. Introduction by Jacob Oleiski, US zone director of ORT, including English subtitles. VAR scenes of survivors in vocational training programs. Men and women working on machinery, furniture making, sewing, women's clothing, etc. in Landsberg, Germany. 22:09:31 Max (Mordchai) Rubin, a chemistry teacher at ORT Munich, is visible, along with his student Adi Rubin (Ribon) at 22:09:37. ORT UNRRA Vocation School sign. MCU young men entering building. Oleiski speaking again, with English subtitles.

  4. Prewar life in an Austrian village and tourist views of Prague

    Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, men and boys wear top hats and lederhosen or breeches, on the occasion of a Catholic holiday(?). Shop signs advertise film equipment/stock - Agfa and Perutz. 01:59 German flag with a swasti...

  5. GIs; battered corpses; Dachau camp victims

    Campfire burning. Hamilton, Stevens and others on ground cooking, drinking coffee. Change of scene, jeep Toluca covered with snow. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca shakes hands with crewcut American (Major Dick Cahoot). CUs, they are smoking, dressed in winter parkas (handwritten annotation to LoC cataloger's notes indicates that this footage was shot in Belgium). At Dachau, by a railroad track, empty boxcars, some snow on ground. Frozen corpse lying in coal beside track. Gruesome CU of snow covered huddled corpse by boxcar. Several gruesome shots of battered corpses of German SS. Frozen bod...

  6. Coal mining; Warsaw street scenes-daily life

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. Factory, church and mining sequences. Warsaw shots begin at 01:11:04:00. Trams. POV from tram to streets. People window shopping at various shops. Shop fronts. Kiosk with Charlie Chaplin poster. Street scenes, traffic, pedestrians. Gliders. LS town square. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. Trams, tram sign, INT shots of people in tram. LS to MS to MCU- policeman directs traffic, acknowledging the camera's presence, looking out of the corner of his eye. Street scenes, buses, automobiles, bicycles, horse drawn carts, pas...

  7. Nuremberg Trial interpreters; closing speech at Malmedy Trial

    Munich 225 - War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany July 1946. Individual CUs of interpreters speaking into microphones. 03:04 Munich 294 - Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany July 11, 1946. Lt. Col Burton J Ellis continuing his closing speech to the court.

  8. Pre-war Jewish life in four small towns of Poland

    01:00:32 Kolbuszowa. Very good shots of market. HA of busy square. Shots of various vendors, shoppers, goods. Jews and peasants. Street scenes. Scenics of surroundings. Shots of buildings. Police men. Large tree in park. VAR streets. Shots of children. Town "Mashugena". Cheder children. Various Jewish institutions. Yeshiva boys. Cemetery sequence. More important buildings. Town beauty. Band plays. Men pose on street. Magistrate. Town square not market day. 01:12:25 Ranizow. General shots of town square, street, EXT of synagogue, man pumps water. 01:14:22 Sokolow. Main street. Children pose ...

  9. Radio Luxembourg Collection

    Contents include propaganda broadcasts transmitted from 1944-1945 by the black propaganda radio station Sender 1212 (Radio 1212) and interviews conducted in 1979 with ex-personnel, Edmund Schechter and Hanuš Burger.

  10. Rabbi Caplan Collection of Percy Haid recordings

    Disc 1: "Fantasy in Yellow" by Percy Haid, recorded at Temple Anshe Sholom, Olympia Fields IL, April 23, 2017. The CD was home-recorded at a memorial event during which Haid's "Fantasie in Gelb" was performed in an arrangement for string orchestra by Linda Veleckis Nussbaum. The event had been arranged by Rabbi Paul Caplan of Temple Anshe Sholom with the cooperation of Haid's children, Max and Joseph. Discs 2 (DVD video) and 3: "Yom HaShoah: A Community Observance" Yom Hashoah service recorded at Temple Anshe Shalom, Olympia Fields IL, April 23, 2017. The video documentation was edited by J...

  11. Kriegsberichterstattung: Gespenster bei Nacht

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Berthold. "Ghosts at Night"

  12. Yankele | Kartofellsupe

    RCA Victor / Radio Leon P-1117A/B. Words and music to both songs by Mordecai Gebirtig. Recorded early 1950s. Side A: Yankele. Performers: Jenny Lovitz (voice), Jascha Galperin (piano) Side B: Kartofellsupe. Performers: Jenny Lovitz (voice), Jascha Galperin (piano)

  13. Dina Potapovskaya performs

    Dina Potapovskaya performs four songs accompanied by Otilie Lichtenstein (piano). This Extended Play recording is an important artifact of Holocaust reception in the Soviet Union. Potapovskaya was an opera singer and actress active in the USSR during the 1950s-60s. Tracks include: 1. Tife griber (Lichtenstein / Halkin). The setting of Yiddish poet Shmuel Halkin's poem "Tife griber" (deep graves; inspired by Babi Yar) was composed by Potapovskaya's accompanist, Otilie Lichtenstein. 2. A shtral fun der zun (Lichtenstein / Schwarzman) 3. Dos vigele (Poliansky / Driz) 4. Yad anuga haita la (Gne...

  14. Yizkor

    "Yizkor" In Memory of the Victims of the European Jewish Catastrophe 1940-1945. In Yiddish. Recitation/play by actor and Łódź ghetto survivor Shammai Rosenblum. Issued under the auspices of Yad Washem (sic) and the World Jewish Congress. For contents, see album back cover.

  15. The Yiddish Voice

    Abraham Brumberg on "The Yiddish Voice" radio program, primarily in Yiddish. Disc 1: August 8, 2001, Abraham Brumberg talks with Mark David about the new book "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Antifascist Committee" (2001), edited by Rubinstein. He also presents the poetry of Soviet writers. Disc 2: August 13, 2008, A program in memory of the late Dr Brumberg, featuring Forverts writer Iosif Lakhman.

  16. Percy Haid Selected Music and Home Movies

    "A Haid Family Album" CD: "Selected music and arrangements by Percy Haid -- in loving memory" Selections include: 1) Street Scene; 2) Cry of a City; 3) Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; 4) Autumn in New York; 5) Miami Beach Cha Cha; 7) Linda's Cha Cha. DVD: "Do You Remember When?" Still photos and home movies of Percy and Sonia Haid ca. 1950-60s set to a soundtrack of Haid's compositions.

  17. Of Lovers, Dreamers & Thieves

    "Of Lovers, Dreamers & Thieves: Yiddish Folk Songs from Eastern Europe" Selection of folk songs performed by Abraham Brumberg and ensemble. Content listing and annotations on LP back cover.

  18. Kriegsberichterstattung: Neujahrsstimmung

    Decelith Folie D. War report by D'Haese. "New Year's Mood"

  19. Ladino recordings by Ana and Lazare Angel

    Ladino songs recorded in Paris at Musée de la Parole shortly after the war by survivors Ana (Sucic) Angel (b 1915, Busovača) and her husband Lazare Angel (b 1922, Kavala) by the Romanian folklorist Léon Algazi. Consists of 10 Tracks, including: Track 1) Ya basta kruela d’esta negra fama (That’s Enough, Cruel One) [cuts off] Track 2) Lavaba la blanka niña (The Pure Maiden Washes); also known as La vuelta del marido (The Husband Returns) Track 3) El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of Saloniki) Track 4) Partos trokados (The Mixed-up Newborns) Track 5) La rosa inflorece (The Rose Blooms) Track 6...

  20. Kriegsberichterstattung: Gespräch mit verdienten ungarischen Soldaten

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Berthold? "Conversation with deserving Hungarian soldiers" The label indicates, "Private blasts soviets. Replenishment storage."