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  1. 20th Anniversary of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust

    Compilation of footage and interviews documenting the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust, which was responsible for the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and celebrating its 20th anniversary in the year 2000. Production was screened during a Museum public program. Elie Wiesel leads the Presidential Commission as they travel to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw, and other locations in Poland. Among those participating: Miles Lerman, Chris Lerman, Sigmund Strochlitz, Benjamin Meed, Yaffa Eliach, Michael Berenbaum, Kitty Dukakis, Raul Hilberg. Their report is presented ...

  2. Nazi Party Day rally, Nuremberg, 1936

    Amateur footage of the Nazi Party Day rally in Nuremberg in 1936 (clip 2). Uniformed men greet each other by shaking hands and giving Hitler salutes. According to the IWM record, SS leader Karl Wolff appears in this group (probably the man in the black uniform at 00:20). Ceremony on a parade ground or field with Hitler Youth and BDM. Hitler Youth stand at attention in rows, play drums, and raise a big swastika banner on a flagpole. Boys at attention holding trumpets and shouting or singing. HJ boys play drums and trumpets. 03:59 Indoor location. Man speaking at a podium to Hitler Youth in t...

  3. Passazhirka

    Home recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's opera "Passazhirka" (The Passenger; 1968) performed at the piano by the composer.

  4. Belsen: Nazis bury the dead

    Nazi men dragging corpses by the feet to a mass grave/pit, more bodies in the grave, preparing for burial. Supervised by armed British solders in FG.

  5. Prewar Riga; Boat

    “Kodak Safety Film” logo. A group of men and women standing outside a building with a sign says “Rigas Pilsetas Juanatines Un Aroda Piemerotibas Petisanas Institus” [Riga City Youth and Occupational Fitness Research Institute]. The women are wearing dresses and the men are in suits. On a boat named “Konug Oscar”. Woman and a teenage boy and other family members are on the boat smiling and pulling the bell. The camera pans to several large buildings. Bridge. Cars and horse-drawn carriages near the boat. Family waves from the boat. Filming from the boat, a woman stands with the Captain, coupl...

  6. Boder visits family in Latvia before the Holocaust

    David Boder with family in Liepaja, Latvia - pre-war. A man and woman standing on a balcony with decorative iron scrolling. (0:07) Two men dressed in suits step out of a building. A sign in the background says J. Simson. Two couples in a park walk toward the camera and smile. A different man, dressed in a suit, smiles at the camera, then walks down a set of steps. There is a plaque on a stone column next to the steps [plaque is illegible]. A woman walks arm in arm with a man in a uniform, then the same man in uniform walks with two women who are smiling. Two women in front of a statue, like...

  7. 1936 Hungarian Olympic team returns to Budapest for a grand welcom parade

    Magyar Híradó 652. Intertitle: “ITTHON. A fóväros közönsége határtalan lelkesedés-sel fogadta a dicsósé-gesen szerepelt magyar olimpiai verseny-zóket. M.F.I.” People walk in a parade. Some women hold a flag bearing the symbol of the Olympics. Others hold bouquets of flowers. Men walk in a line holding on to one another. Police in pointed helmets stand at the front of the crowd. Young boys in the crowd wave. The attention is focused on a small circle of men speaking in the middle. People celebrate the olympians. Some are lifted onto the shoulders of their family and friends. One holds a flag...

  8. USHMM Tribute to Liberators

    AV production honoring the role of liberators during the Holocaust shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2004 during the opening of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.

  9. Tourists visit museum in Russia

    INT, museum. Group looking at paintings, closer shots/pan of paintings, sculptures, patrons.

  10. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  11. Sightseeing in Switzerland and Italy

    June 27-29, 1927. Lucerne, Switzerland, views of the lake of Lucerne. 01:30:49 The Palace Hotel with mountains in BG. Covered bridge and the marketplace at Lucerne. Street scenes, bicycles, pedestrians crossing a bridge, Swiss flag on a building. Very brief CU of Carl. Lakeside views as the family travels to the Rigi tourist mountain with a cog railway. Brief MS of train at station. 01:32:19 June 29 to July 1, 1927. MS, Lake Como. Family members on a boat in Italy on Lake Como. Lakeside buildings, flag waving in wind on boat. 01:33:05 July 1-6, 1927. Hotel Excelsior at Lido Beach near Venic...

  12. Oral history interview with Barbara Rodbell

  13. Agro-Joint activity in prewar Russia

    Excerpt of "Founding a New Life: A Story of Rehabilitation." Chickens. Sheep herds, milking sheep. Cattle, women milking cattle. People bring milk to cooperative. Unloading goods at cooperative store. LS of town. Classroom scenes at school, children dance in circle.

  14. Marcha Haganah | Mir Marshieren

    RCA Victor Argentina / Radio Leon. P 915-A/B. Recorded late 1940s. Marcos Katz (baritone, music & text); Jacobo Sclar (orchestral arrangements and direction). Side A: Marcha Hagana (Motivo Popular). Music: Marc Lavry, text: Avraham Broides Side B: Mir Marshieren. Composer/author: unidentified.

  15. Family heirlooms; visiting mountains

    Family photographs. Men gather for picture/filming at log cabin in mountains [Caucusus?], EXT. Julien Bryan gives the men instructions and backs out of frame.

  16. Oral history interview with Leon Skurko

  17. Funeral; Rabbis; Jewish Cemetery

    Magyar Híradó 473. An intertitle reads, “A Magyar úszósport nagy vesztesége. Általános részvét kisér-te utolsó útjára a magyar úszósport vilásikereinek leeks megteremtójét, Komjádi Bélát. M.F.J.” The funeral crowd outside a large building with two dead trees in front. Men in black carry the coffin amongst a sea of other funeral attendees. Photographers stand on the side. Two men carry pillows presenting the medals of the deceased. A man speaks to the crowd above the place where the coffin has been laid down. Includes shots of rabbis and the Jewish cemetery.

  18. Moving into the Krakow Ghetto

    CU, Jewish man with winter hat and star armband in the Krakow ghetto. Cart loaded with furniture and belongings moves along a snowy road. Men gathered in front of a building. Boy pulls a small wagon with his possessions. Man with a framed picture. 00:19 Schoolchildren walk down a sidewalk with chairs over their heads. Woman hunched over a pile of belongings on the ground. Moving furniture into a new home. Street activity with pedestrians, horse and wagon, and streetcar.

  19. Oral history interview with Lucia Shabasson

  20. Josef Bürckel boards airplane

    Josef Bürckel at an unidentified airfield in Austria. Bürckel wears a light-colored raincoat (IWM notes that he wears civilian clothes and therefore this is before his appointment as Gauleiter of Vienna on January 30, 1939). Bürckel is surrounded by men in both civilian clothing and Austrian Nazi uniforms who talk to him and try to get his attention as he crosses the airfield (Including bespectacled man in brown shirt with armband and tie, Josef Helferich, Gauleiter of Gau Steiermark, and Odilo Globocnik). Several of the men have cameras. As Bürckel approaches his plane (a Lufthansa Junkers...