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  1. American visits Vienna during the Anschluss and tours Germany (color)

    An American visits Vienna in March 1938. City street with telephone booth. Bridge in BG, someone steps into the phone booth. Belvedere palace and sprawling garden with the city in the distance. A long line of Jewish people, most likely attempting to obtain visas to exit the country in March 1938. “Jüdisches Geschäft” [Jewish Business] sign on shop. Narrow street with swastika flags on some of the buildings. The Ankeruhr clock on Hohen Markt street. Nazis in uniform line up in a square. Swastika flags in different shapes hang at the Heldenplatz where Hitler announced the Anschluss on March 1...

  2. American volunteer recruitment on Vermont farms

    Promotional film for Volunteer Land Corp recruitment which follows the experiences of Dick Shaw, a young adult who learns to work on a Vermont farm as part of his contribution to the war effort. Summertime Barnard resident Dorothy Thompson wrote the story. This is a production of the United States Department of Agriculture and State Land Grant Colleges.

  3. American war posters collection

    The collection consists of four American World War II propaganda posters.

  4. American woman speaks

    American woman Ruth Mitchell released from internment in Germany speaks about the cruelties inflicted on Jews in Germany. MS and CU of Mitchell speaking.

  5. American Zionist Fundraising photographs

    Photographs show American fundraising events for Jewish causes, such as the National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish Refugees in Palestine, and the National Palestine Appeal Conference. Most of the photographs are posed publicity photographs and show the most prominent Jews of the day in the United States.

  6. Americans fight in World War I

    Miscellaneous Film 50 / Signal Corps / U.S. Army. Reel 4. 01:27:12 "Behind the lines long range guns swell the storm of destruction" US artillery in fields, troops, firing with camouflaged vehicles, smoke rising in the distance. More weapons firing, equipment. 01:29:30 "The famous 75's in action at Le Cotes de Forinent, September 27, 1918" Men set off weapons, CUs. 01:30:24 "The tanks advance to do their bit" Views of tanks moving in the fields with soldiers nearby, smoke. 01:32:27 "Shelling an ammunition dump" Weapons fire. 01:33:04 "Every man on his toes - amid the roar of guns and whine ...

  7. Americans meet Russians

    Sign reads: "Nothing in hell can stop the Timber Wolf Division" at Gen. Terry Allen's headquarters at Torgau. He was the leader of the Timber Wolf Division. Shot of troops with American flag and red flag on a jeep and whole series of jeeps driving through town. It is a meeting of Russian and American officers. American two-star General Terry Allen walks up and salutes a Russian officer. They all turn in a three shot and salute a new arrival as the band plays. Sequence of shots of officers listening to band music. American general appears to be pinning a medal on a Russian general. They shak...

  8. Americans tour cities in Europe and Russia before World War II

    Touring Europe before World War II, probably in the year 1930. Home movies by an unknown American cameraperson. Consists of two 14" reels which contain short 16mm rolls spliced together. Includes segments of rare Kodacolor (lenticular) film. The Americans travel by bus, boat, and train across Europe with stops in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Reel One begins in Michigan with a ferry trip to Canada where the group of Americans board the SS Athenia ship. Folks play games on the ship. Icebergs. (10:35) Docking at the har...

  9. Americans travel to Europe on Nieuw Amsterdam ship

    Title card reading: "Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938". Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina, and Essie Diamond on deck of Nieuw Amsterdam ship at sea. Napping and relaxing on deck. Lillian reads the NYTimes magazine dated July 24 about Henry Ford receiving a birthday award from Hitler. The ship departed the port in Hoboken, NJ at 12:40pm on Saturday July 23, 1938. HAS, crowds of people on board a ferry in Boulogne, France or Amsterdam, Netherlands, some waving. The Nieuw Amsterdam stopped first in Plymouth, England on July 30, then in Boulogne, and...

  10. Americans vacation in France and Italy

    With intertitles in English. Pan of a city from up above. A man and a woman pose on an outside patio overlooking the coast. Views of the city. 0:45 “Cap D’Antibes and a British Flotilla.” Coastal views with ships in the distance. 1:05 “The Funicular Railway down to Cannes.” Shots of the railway. A woman walks towards the camera from an upscale home. 1:25 “Hotel Imperiale and Gardens in Mentone.” A woman walks in front of luxurious hotel; walks around the gardens, stopping to smell a flower. The same woman sits at a table and then again walks around the gardens. 2:30 “Venice, Italy. St. Mark...

  11. Americans visit Europe in 1938

    Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, Berne, Zurich, Como, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples, Venice, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Mittenwald, Nuremberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Kolberg, London, and Bath. 2:07 Title- FRANCE and...

  12. Americans visit family in Vienna, 1930

    Pan of well-dressed men and women seated and eating at dining tables on an outdoor patio. View of a city below them. 00:50 Pan of an ornate fountain and swimming pool. People wade in the water, a man slides down a waterslide. 1:27 Views of a large crowd of people in bathing suits. A well-dressed woman in the foreground. People mill about on the beach and in the water. 1:54 Views of a crowded outdoor café. 2:18 Pan of a gated building, perhaps an apartment. Three well-dressed people pose for the camera in front of the gate. The three walk in a garden towards the camera and pose for the camer...

  13. Americans visit Horodok, Poland and Germany

    Amateur footage taken by an American Jew, Joseph Shapiro, during a visit to relatives in Horodok, a Polish shtetl ocated between Minsk and Vilna. American travelers dressed in expensive clothes shake hands with villagers. The camera pans the landscape showing horse-drawn wagons, farms, trains resting on tracks, and local businesses (beer house "Piwiarnia"). 14:16:52 Children present flowers to visitors. A large procession of children (some in gymnasium hats) walk in pairs, as teachers organize the group. 14:18:56 The children rush towards a bus labeled "98 Iwieniec..." traveling from a town...

  14. Americans visit Netherlands, Bavaria, and Croatia on a Mediterranean cruise; Nazi flags and posters in Bavaria

    Reel 32. European trip to pick up Dr. Pfister's daughter, Maja, after her junior year in Germany, including a Mediterranean cruise in 1934. Waterside town - the island of Marken, the Netherlands. House on stilts. The dock. People with baskets outside of a small marketplace, with a sign that reads, “Dutch Silver…” Men relax outside building next to that shop. The sign above reads, “Costumes and curiosities.” Women walk about along the pathway. A woman and a young girl. The young girl pushes a small baby carriage. Two men walk by. Laundry drying on a line. A girl holds the hand of a smaller y...

  15. Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1938 von ehemaligen Angehörigen des "Bundes der Freunde des neuen Deutschland" als "Kameradschaft USA"; Sitz der Zentrale war Stuttgart, Leiter war Fritz Gissibl. Bestandsbeschreibung Beitrittserklärungen 1938-1942 (5). - Rundschreiben, Schriftwechsel über die Tätigkeit der Kameradschaft USA - insbesondere Betreuung und Unterstützung der aus den USA nach Deutschland zurückgewanderten Mitglieder 1936-1943 (7). - Material für Propagandazwecke wahrscheinlich zur Ausstellung "Amerikadeutschtum im Kampf" anlässlich des 1. Reichstreffens der Kameradschaft 1939 [185...

  17. Amerykańskie Trybunały Wojskowe nr I-VI w Norymberdze [Military Tribunals USA nr I-VI in Nuremberg]

    • akta sądowe dot. zbrodni niemieckich (materiały z procesów osób oskarżonych przed Międzynarodowym Trybunałem Wojskowym o zbrodnie wojenne, przeciwko ludzkości i pokojowi, m.in. prowadzenie wojny agresywnej, masowe mordy, egzekucje, germanizację i deportacje ludności cywilnej, osadzanie w obozach koncentracyjnych, wykorzystywanie jeńców wojennych do pracy przymusowej, przeprowadzanie eksperymentów pseudomedycznych na więźniach, rabunek mienia narodowego oraz prywatnego, eksploatację gospodarczą krajów okupowanych). Powyższe materiały zawierają akt oskarżenia, zeznania świadków i oskarżonyc...

  18. Amiel Blaiss collection

    Contains two telegrams sent to Mrs. Minnie Blaiss (donor's mother) regarding her husband, Pvt. Amiel Blaiss (donor's father), and his return to the United States after his liberation. Amiel Blaiss was one of 350 American POWs selected from Stalag IXB in Bad Orb, Germany and sent to perform forced labor at Berga, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  19. Amintiri din Lagarele Vapniarca si Grosolova, 16 Sept. 1942 - 4 Aprille 1944

    Contains a copy of a handwritten manuscript entitled "Amintiri din Lagarele Vapniarca si Grosolova, 16 September 1942 - 4 Aprille 1944," written by Zalman Broder. The manuscript includes information about the experiences of Mr. Broder and his wife while incarcerated in Vapniarca and Grosulovo concentration camps in Romania from September 16, 1942 to April 4, 1944. These camps were designated for Jewish and non-Jewish communists.

  20. Ammende, Ewald

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Verlagsdirektor in Riga, Generalsekretär des Europäischen Nationalkongresses Zitierweise BArch N 2005/...