United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000158
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

INT women training for Nazi motherhood at soup kitchen, cooking class, ladling soup. All at table, hands clasped, praying, eating. Class on infant care, instruction with doll, diapers, rubbing lotion. Potty in glass bowl in crib corner. Women around crib see how to lift baby out. LS town of summer garden homes with trees, big buildings (new city housing?) on outskirts. Apartment building with five stories, swastika flags. Woman in backyard feeding chickens. Pram with baby, stares at sky. In garden, girl picks daisy; shaved man with cigar. 00:24:20 EXT shops, sign "B. R. Friedland" [this is ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000159
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

Rural/farming activity. MLS unloading tobacco leaves. 00:01:16 In Heidelberg, CU, door and porcelain sign: "Dr. med. E. Lobstein" "Arischer Arzt" [Aryan doctor]. 00:01:49 Grape harvest and wine pressing scenes. In Rhineland/Neustadt, kneeling to pick grapes, VCU, beautiful light. MLS of vineyard and workers. MS, older woman bent over basket. MLS edge of field, pouring grapes from basket and into big press. INT dark, primitive, grape press, slowly coming down. Leaking out of barrel down chute. Grape pulp being ground up. CU, grapes. In field, little boy helps man. Loading funnel, press. Scar...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000160
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Buchenwald Concentration Camp" General views of the camp at Buchenwald. Red EXT of camp. HSs of the area. "Jedem Das Sein" gate closes. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland enter the camp grounds. Male survivors leave the camp. Among the survivors are 1000 boys under 14. Evidence of crimes: CUs of dead with numbers tattooed on stomachs; emaciated survivors; stacks of bodies outside and inside the crematorium; the experimental building where various toxins were tried; truckloads of the dead; CU weapon of torture; INT, crematorium ovens showing skeletons inside and piles of bone ash. 1200 Germa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000161
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Opening titles and credits (see transcription below). Pan of prisoners behind barbed wire. CUs prisoners, their tatooed numbers, of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. The Russian officers examine officials of camp. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Gas chambers. CU can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, etc. Officials of the camp are examined and, with the help of female Russian interpreter, various prisoners tell their stories. Rolling credits at...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000162
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Pan, pile of corpses outside gas chamber/crematoria, bones on the ground. CUs, cremation ovens. Family photographs of a victim. More shots of ovens and bones. CUs, women weeping. Pan down, from one woman to a pile of bones. Tall chimney and burial grounds are shown. Bones. A vegetable garden. Men inside barracks. CUs, shoes salvaged by the Nazis. Victims' belongings including: clothing, gloves, toys, eyeglasses, scissors. The Russian commission continues questioning. CUs, passports, indicating prisoners from Poland, Holland, France, and other countries. CUs, survivors. Commission. Prisoners...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000163
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. Opening titles. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn faces, dead in the street, men with blankets over their heads. The evacuation of the camp - ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000164
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Exhumations of bodies of 12,000 Polish army officers massacred by Soviets. Pan of forest edge from river. MLS pans of men digging in separate areas (cordoned off like archeological sites). Quick flashes of bodies meshed together in a ditch. Slow pan around. CU bodies caked with mud, piled up. CU on individual bodies. CU on the 4-star uniform of corpse. Hands tied behind backs. Bodies laid out, lifted up to camera. Carrying bodies out on stretcher. Shots of belongings of victims: money, cigar (taken from pocket of uniform), family photos, "Carte Celonkowski." The narrator explains that the p...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000165
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

REEL 1: The annexation of Austria [Anschluss]. Hitler's motorcade through the streets, saluting citizens, flag waving, vast and enthusiastic crowds. In Graz (poor sound), brief SEQ of unrest, crowds in the streets. Police block street off. Horses are nervous. Good atmosphere of street-level activity and excitement (VQ: not great, grainy spotty, soft). Picturesque town, everyone saluting. Shots of crowd. "Oesterreich ist frei!" "Rucktritt der osten!" "Oesterreich is Nat--sozialistich." Vienna at night. Military parade. Tanks go by the Cafe Heinrichhof. CU of General Guderian(?). Boy and fami...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000166
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

05:22:04 LS, castle. Viktor Lutze, chief of staff of the SA, in Marienburg, East Prussia with other SA (inspecting areas in the East). At a soldier cemetery near Łódź, Lutze honors SA Obergruppenfuehrer Meyer-Quade at his grave, presenting wreath, flag with swastika. In Posen, Lutze walking past officers, speaking to large crowd. Inspecting areas in the East. 05:23:03 In Litzmannstadt, a large demonstration celebrating the day of Łódź's release from Polish control. Crowd of soldiers. 05:23:20 Generalgouvernement celebration (one-year anniversary) in Krakow. Crowd welcoming Frank and other o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000167
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Des Reiches Wiedergeburt" [Rebirth of the nation] Hitler in automobile, crowd, heiling, in large hall. "Volk am Werk" [People at work] Hitler speech. Hitler breaking ground with shovel. Boys with shovels. Factory, walking through mud, shoveling (Hitler speech in background). Hitler speaking behind podium. Shoveling dirt, building buildings, farming. Hitler speech. "Die Ewige Jugend" Girl with flowers, boys, HJ, Hitler, more HJ. Boys marching, gathered in square to hear Hitler speak, flags with swastika. Hitler speech. Boys running, BDM, calisthenics in field (Hitler speaking in background)...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000168
• English
• 1947
• Updated 1 year ago

Welt im Film. Issue no. 93 01:07:14 General McNarney's Press Conference. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney holds press conference in Berlin at which German journalists participate for the first time. Cut-ins, German newspapermen taking notes. 01:08:08 Hadamar Mass Murder Trial. INTs, Frankfurt Provincial Court. 27 doctors, nurses, and attendants who participated in the mass killings of 70,000 people are on trial. MCUs many of those on trial. Prosecutor explains method by which disappearance of victims was accomplished. Cut-ins prisoners and others in courtroom.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000169
• English
• 1928-1929
• Updated 1 year ago

Informal shots of Socialist youth parade along cobbled city street; carrying signs: "Heutigen Tag zur wahl zu gehen" ["Go to the polls today."] Parade is mostly children, with some bicyclists alongside the marchers, and at the very end there are a man and a dog. Nice street scene. View down cobblestone street.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000170
• English
• 1940
• Updated 1 year ago

Very short clip from the film "Helfende Haende" Little kids in courtyard. CU, delightful faces of children, all very serious (2-5 year olds). Shots of family moving into a home. Narration: "Homes of fleeing/escaping [gefluchteter] Poles and wandering Jews become possession of the Germans." Woman sweeps kitchen floor/ breaks off here.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000171
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

Map. Goering, Keitel, von Ribbentrop, Himmler, and Hitler in a map conference; also present, Rommel, Bodenschatz. Preparation for bombing Warsaw. Intertitle: "Nach Ablehnung der Uebergabe wird der Kampf fortgesetzt." Bombs loaded into plane. Aerial shots of bombs being dropped on Warsaw. Thin black columns of smoke from outskirts of town. Soldiers firing bombs from land. Smoke. Hitler in plane looking through telescope. Buildings on fire. Soldiers advancing [footage is dense, grainy, scratched]. Polish soldiers surrendering, running with hands raised. German soldiers carry an injured man in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000172
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. Shots include: men and women work contentedly on farm, in factories, making pottery ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000173
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Berlin, boycott footage, SA putting signs in Jewish stores, carrying placards.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000174
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

MLS, MS, and MCU of Romani and other children playing on a courtyard under the supervision of a nun (dressed in full habit) in Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, Germany. LS girls in a circle, playing an orderly game with the nun. Boys too. Some stare at camera. Girls in braided pigtails, bows, smocks. Crowding around camera (VQ: a bit softer). Lunchtime outside. Children wearing blue uniforms (color improves). CU of lovely faces, innocent, happy. They clown and compete for the camera. Boys play in courtyard, carry shoes. MCU playing with marble on board. Picking apples up in a tree.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000175
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

Buna rubber plant. Men and women working with equipment, making tires. Big machinery. MLS pan of factory. Big machinery. Mud-like clumps (of rubber?) pulled along conveyor belt. Worker pulls a wide sheet of rubber from a hot metal roller. Women operating machinery.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000176
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

von Papen reads a prepared speech to camera after the Reparations Conference at Lausanne, during which German reparation payments were officially suspended due to the financial crisis and worldwide economic depression. Portion of speech (transcribed by researcher): "Deutschland Schicksal ist das Schicksal der Welt; deutsche Not ist die Not der Welt; der Wohlstand der einzelnen Nation is der Wohlstand der Gesamheit. Die Arbeit der verantwortlichen Staatsmanner in Lausanne muss den Weg frei machen zur eine positive Zusammenarbeit die uns allein einer besseren Zukunft entgegenfuhren kann." [Tr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000177
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

01:07:44 (B-759) WWII Removal of bodies from graves and placement into caskets. CUs, bodies with hands tied behind backs. Pulling bodies out of graves. Wiping dirt away from bound hands. Foreign (Allied) soldiers and coffins [soft focus]. Prying off gloves from corpse hand with metal implement. Soldiers; graves. 01:09:45 (B-760) WWII INTs of gas chamber used by the Germans in the execution of prisoners. Demonstrating method of securing prisoners in gas chambers. Various CUs, pipes leading into room. Pan, wall surrounding concentration camp. LSs, CUs, Pan, three execution posts. ICU, rosary ...