United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000663
• English
• 1941-1942
• Updated 1 year ago

This documentary in the style of a Wochenschau [weekly newsreel] depicts the 'irresistible' military advance of the German army on the Eastern front of WWII, its reception as 'liberators' by the respective populations, & the scorched earth left behind by the retreating Soviet troops. Scenes show the German-Finnish border & the polar circle the German army crossed in summer 1941 as they advanced toward the Soviet Union. German troops & Waffen-SS enter Lithuania from Eastern Prussia and cross the Memel River, advancing & taking the capital Kovno on June 24, 1941. In Daugavils ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000664
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

City of Berlin. Construction crew at work, pouring cement. City view, with radio tower. 00:17:02 "Reichskrafts" sign on building. Farm scenes. BDM (Bund Deutsche Maedel) girls with their arm badges, milking goat. Blond girl cutting bread for two children. CU of children at tables, eating, outdoors. INT, Kindergarten. Children painting, washing dishes. 00:19:51 Children go off together with school satchels on their backs in Essen, arms around each others' shoulders, various combinations of boys, girls. Smokestacks, city in BG, Krupp factory. 00:21:23 Flying club, gliders, young men carry gli...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000665
• English
• 1947
• Updated 1 year ago

US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 7, Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers. Troops cross a river and attack and capture Cologne, and advance into Germany. Shows war ruins in Julich, Cologne, and other German cities. Parade of troops through ruined cities. German refugees. Sign on wall: "Hitler ist Kaput". Troops advance. Destruction of cities. Fighting, crossing Rhine. Corpsmen treat the wounded. Red Cross ambulances. Ruins. Soldier playing tuba, others relaxing watching the "Rhine Rodeo." 04:10:52 Reel 8 shows an airb...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000666
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

(LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains speaking at ceremony. CUs, Gavin and other US soldiers. Burying victims. MSs, body lying in grave as earth is shoveled over it. Germans burying victims, grave markers. More shot...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000669
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Opening credit: "Das Blut der Opfer Schreit zum Himmel!" Pan of survivors behind barbed wire. CUs, survivors and their tattooed numbers. Various shots of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. Russian soldiers examine camp officials. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Officials of the camp are questioned. Gas chambers. CU, can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, disinfection chamber, etc. More officials are interrogated by Russians. Survivors tell their...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000671
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

(LIB 5419) Ike Visits XX Corps, Gotha, Germany, April 12, 1945. MLS Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower surrounded by officers and GIs, walking past barrack buildings. MCU, Eisenhower and officers watching, camera pans right to woman demonstrating torture on rack. MLS Eisenhower walking along with former prisoner (survivor) with scarf. Camera pans down to bodies in yard. Eisenhower and Gen Omar N. Bradley listening as Gen George S. Patton speaks. Group walking toward camera, Eisenhower coming around jeep. Eisenhower speaking to Walker. MSs officers. Good MCU of Bradley and Patton. LS Eisenhower coming...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000672
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

04:48:10 Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, survivors in courtyard cooking around open fire. Getting water from well. LSs, camp buildings. VAR shots of survivors. 04:50:30 (LIB 6324) American Newspapermen Inspect Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. CU, US newspapermen and party are sprayed with delousing powder. Survivors behind barbed wire in large field. CUs, US press. 04:51:19 (LIB 6339 and 6340) 11th Panzer Division Surrenders, Neumark, Czechoslovakia, May 4, 1945. EXTs, MSs, MCUs, US 90th Div Brig Gen Herbert Earnest in discussion with Germa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000673
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

(LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains speaking at ceremony. CUs, Gavin and other US soldiers. Burying victims. MSs, body lying in grave as earth is shoveled over it. Germans burying victims, grave markers. More shot...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000674
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000675
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

At Ruzyn airport in Prague, Jewish children preparing to board plane for London on a transport organized by the Barbican Mission to the Jews, a Christian organization that aimed at rescuing and converting these children (upon their parent´s agreement). Boy holds hands of 2 sisters. Small group of children wave to camera. INTs, boy with kerchief and an elderly woman. CUs, children on a bus.Little girl, Hansi Beck, with knitted hat. Children of various ages, including Eva Heller, Holger Heller, Eva Fried, Renate Fried, Gertie Pfeffer, and Hansi Beck, board the plane. Pan of KLM airplane. Pare...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000676
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

Overhead shot of crowds waiting, SS men. Wide view of exhibition building with crowds in front, swastika banners, and the building-wide exhibit title: "Grosse Antibolschewistische" [Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition] (pan, words shown one at a time). Men exiting exhibition building. 00:06:29 EXT stadium with Nazi banners. 00:06:58 Nuremberg parade grounds, crowds at seats, swastika flags. Marching (mostly trims of reasonable length). 00:07:40 Group of Italian officers, talking, laughing. 00:08:59 Trims of young men with SS badges eating. Flags with swastikas and SS. CUs, faces, men in SS swea...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000677
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

Maps and graphics. Map of France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Soviet, Ukraine, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Graphics showing radio broadcast signals, the press, local Nazi parties, and trade pressure. CUs, Germany, Ukraine, "The Partition of Czechoslovakia". CUs of forbidden books, including Schnitzler, Kant, Wassermann, Einstein, Napolean, Zweig, and Remarque. CU, Mendelsohn's Wedding March music. [Apparently outtakes similar to footage used in March of Time issue, Inside Nazi Germany.)

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000678
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

Autobahn construction: big crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. 00:02:24 Marketplace scenes in Dinkelsbuehl town square: women selling and buying apples. Church entrance, timbered houses, crowds of civilians. VCUs, townspeople. Swastika hanging from building. Cows walking up cobbled street towards camera. 00:04:17 Woman with glasses and cat leaning from window, statue of Christ in niche on house wall. VS, views of river, tower. Woman leading animals through arch. 00:05:11 Men examine pigs, pull them out of baskets by hind legs. VS, pigs, carts, handling animals. Cobbled ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000679
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000680
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

BP fuel truck on Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Lufthansa plane "Obersalzburg". Crowd of German civilians. Planes flying above. "Stanavo" fuel truck. Side view of plane named "Eduard Dost..." "Shell" fuel truck. 00:11:09 Scenes driving on Autobahn between Cologne and Dusseldorf, going under bridges, signs reading "Tankstelle" and "Dusseldorf". 00:12:15 Germans at outdoor fair/industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, crowd. Sign, "Gepaeck-Abgabe." 00:12:41 Street scene in Berlin, tram, well-dressed people. Loeser and Wolff shop on corner. News sellers with "Berlin Illustrierte" late edition: "Jap...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000681
• English
• 1937
• Updated 1 year ago

In the medieval German town of Eisenach, passersby, civilians, artist painting quaint scene outdoors. EXTs Wartburg fortress walls. LS, hillside. 00:13:52 Industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, high angle views. Visitors at displays, including farm equipment: "Stahl-Kombinus" and "Leichte Maschinen". Fountain inside exhibition, crowds. 00:15:25 Very crowded city square in Weimar in summer. Throngs of people, many seated at tables outdoors, men in uniform, women in summer dresses. Large group dancing, ballroom style (motion is slowed down in film). Banners with swastikas surround the square. 0...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000682
• English
• 1945-1948
• Updated 1 year ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000683
• English
• 1945-1948
• Updated 1 year ago

Track and field events at DP camp: javelin, high jump, track races, shotput.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000684
• English
• 1945-1948
• Updated 1 year ago

DPs boarding truck with luggage. CU girl. Lifting baby onto truck. CU men and women on truck. Shots of truck leaving, children waving.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000685
• English
• 1945-1948
• Updated 1 year ago

Displaced persons getting onto truck, boy with a guitar being lifted onto truck, female servicewoman nearby. Children on truck waving goodbye to camera. Side view of truck.