United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001006
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Working Girls Hostel, women reading magazines in the rest room. EXT of building. Hand weaving, chair caning. Sign on door, "Beth Hachalutzoth" (built in 1936). 01:34:18 INT, bank in Tel Aviv where immigrants receive loans, people applying for loans, receiving money. 01:34:54 EXT, street, laborers gathered outside main entrance of Labor headquarters building in Tel Aviv where registration and distribution of work to all laborers gets processed. 01:35:19 Construction for housing project/cooperative in south Tel Aviv, land provided by the Jewish National Fund. Children crossing street. Sign at...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001007
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Views of Tel Aviv harbor. Boats (lighters) used to load/unload ships are docked. Workers repair boats. Bags of flour imported from America piled in customs sheds. 01:42:51 Loading and unloading goods at Jaffa harbor, a few miles from Tel Aviv (This harbor was used for imports and exports of Tel Aviv until the beginning of the Arab strike on April 19, 1936 when a new port was built in Tel Aviv.) CUs, loading and unloading citrus. Workers, cranes, donkeys. CU, an Arab supervises workers. Orange juice seller. View of Jaffa harbor from crane, man on crane. Shot of harbor with Tel Aviv in BG. Re...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001008
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

EXT, main entrance to Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv. Filing paperwork. Laborers present passbooks, CUs, pass. Reading notices in hall. Entering labor restaurant, eating, CUs, typical dish in labor restaurant. 01:48:59 INT, Tel Aviv city hall, meeting of Executive Committee of Labor Federation in Tel Aviv following the attack on Hanuta. David Remez, one of labor leaders in Palestine, presides at the meeting. At his left is Mereminsky, in charge of labor disputes. Eliahu Golumb, veteran labor leader, reports on the attack. Other meeting scenes, speaker, chairman, showing woman member of the ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001009
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001010
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

In the Samaria Plain, workers develop wasteland, leveling ground. Views of Hedera, the largest settlement in Samaria, showing houses, gardens, fields, etc. with sand dunes in the BG. Tractor plowing fields. Orange plantations. 02:23:52 Farming scenes at Arab farm, plowing among orange trees, weeding in orange grove, CU, Arab diverting waters in irrigation canal. Cows feeding on Arab farm, coming out of stable. 02:25:13 Men and women picking oranges in one of the largest plantations in Rehoboth (the main town in the orange-growing belt of Palestine), CUs. 02:25:55 Packing oranges. CU, Yemeni...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001011
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

02:28:16 EXT of The Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot. INT scenes, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's lab, research, main entrance, name of institute. Dr. Weizmann leaving the Institute by car in company of Brig. Harrison, Commander of the Sarafand Army Base and 2) with Gen. Haining, Commander in Chief of British troops in Palestine. 02:29:54 City walls of Jerusalem, convoy/vehicles at bottom of hill, pedestrians walking on road. Western wall. 02:30:39 Jerusalem street scenes, automobiles and pedestrians. 02:30:58 Dr. Weizmann leaving the Sieff Institute by car with Gen. Haining, Commander in Ch...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001012
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Military convoy of the Second Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment (stationed in Haifa) on the way to Qadun village. The convoy was made up of lorries, machine guns, men, officers, donkeys, cannon, and medical units with the objective to find terrorists around Attil village. Soldiers leave barracks, drive on road. Camels proceed. Convoy going through village with Arabs drawing water in BG. Villager watches convoy. Machine guns. Fields just before Attil village. Arab explains directions to Army. Convoy unloads bombs, mortars, machine guns, donkeys. Soldiers awaiting orders, eating, load...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001013
• English
• 1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Black Watch Regiment troops reviewed by the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael. Regiment lines up, arrival of the colors, inspection by MacMichael and Gen. Wavell. Black Watch troops march. High Commissioner and General salute. 02:44:11 On the road from Jerusalem to Jericho to the Dead Sea, Black Watch Troops put on a demonstration to let a military convoy through. Soldiers look though binoculars and record planes flying above in a book. Prisoner being searched (scene staged by military). 02:45:18 Brief scene (unrelated) of men smoking cigarettes. 02:45:26 Troops get off...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001014
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

"Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Title incorrectly identifies this camp as Mauthausen. The footage actually shows Gusen concentration camp.] High pan of concentration camp for slave laborers. Pan of buildings. Gallows with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. Soldiers provide "tour." American POW talking about experience at Mauthausen [filmed at Mauthausen], "fortunately my turn hadn't come," talks of two American soldiers/officers killed, talks about his uniform. Survivors. Pile of corpses. Inmates help each other through the camp, one washes another at trough. German civi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001015
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Session 1. Court officials are organizing the courtroom for the trial. Various individuals walk around the room, greeting and talking to each other. There is occasional sound as the trial commentators prepare for Session 001. The trial begins, and the camera focuses on Adolf Eichmann as he sits in the glass box. As the three judges, Moshe Landau, Benjamin Halevi, and Yitzchak Raveh enter the courtroom, the commentators detail trial particulars such as the trial number and specific court officials. Judge Landau formally ascertains the defendant's identity and choice of council. He then grant...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001016
• English
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Session 1. German translation of the First Count, Letter (h). Judge Moshe Landau continues to read the fifteen counts against Adolf Eichmann, followed by the German translation. When the recitation is complete, Judge Landau asks Eichmann if he understands the charges against him, and Eichmann responds affirmatively. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius requests permission to voice objections against the court before his client enters a formal plea. Judge Landau agrees, and Dr. Servatius states a concern for both the objectivity and competence of the court. Dr. Servatius suggests that an Is...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001017
• English
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Session 1. The end of Film ID 2001 is repeated here with Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius requesting permission to voice two objections to the court before his client enters a plea. Judge Moshe Landau agrees, and Servatius asks for a change of venue and/or a case dismissal on the basis that the panel of Judges lack sufficient objectivity. Secondly, the defense suggests that the court is incompetent because it ignored international law by allowing and justifying the seizure of Adolf Eichmann. Furthermore, Servatius accuses the court of proceeding with trial despite Israel's lack of poli...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001018
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Session 1. Begins during a recess called by Judge Landau. There are court officials and audience members moving around the courtroom, talking and organizing paperwork. The Judges enter and the trial commences. Dr. Servatius opens the proceedings with comments about the document Eichmann signed directly after his capture in Buenos Aires, May 1960; the document states that Eichmann is aware of his transgressions and is prepared to stand trial for his crimes. Furthermore, Eichmann promises to recount his involvement in the Holocaust as truthfully as possible. The defense claims that the docume...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001019
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Session 1. Begins as the court debates the relevance of the Eichmann letter. Dr. Servatius claims the letter is important to his case whereas Mr. Hausner asserts that the letter is irrelevant to the trial. The Judges discuss this matter amongst themselves. After much deliberation, the Judges make the first court decision: "We accept letter T/2 as an exhibit without expressing an opinion as to its value as proof." Hausner continues his speech by responding to Servatius's complaint regarding the lack of witnesses for the defense. Servatius previously stated that his case is hindered by the tr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001020
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Session 1. Film ID 2005 is a combination of the end of Film ID 2001 and the bulk of Film ID 2002. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius states his first concern to the court. The defense suggests that an Israeli court lacks sufficient objectivity due to biases produced by the circumstances for which Eichmann is being tried. The defense claims that any judge with a personal connection to an individual(s) and/or event(s) involved in the Holocaust would be unable to maintain impartiality when making a decision on Eichmann's involvement. As Servatius begins to express his second concern, Judge ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001021
• English
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Sessions 1 and 2. Begins during Session 1 as Attorney General Hausner is countering the Defense's assertion that the Israeli court lacks objectivity. There is a blip at 00:03:04 and the tape skips to Hausner discussing his agreement to accept affidavits from the Defense witnesses and forego his right to cross-examination. 00:05:19 There is another blip and the footage jumps to Session 2 as Hausner is reading international statutes as points of evidence for holding the Eichmann trial in Israel. 00:06:33 Another blip and the footage skips to Hausner discussing Eichmann's extradition from Arge...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001022
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Session 3. Recording begins while the court is in recess. There are several camera shots of audience members, court officials, and Adolf Eichmann as he enters the courtroom. As the trial commences, Attorney General Hausner introduces precedents and protocols established by the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal regarding war crimes trials. He cites several documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the proceedings from such conferences as the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Hausner also refers ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001023
• English
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Session 5. Begins while the courtroom is empty. The attorneys enter, and the camera focuses on Attorney General Hausner and Defense Attorney Servatius as they exchange pleasantries. The judges enter the courtroom and Judge Moshe Landau declares Session 5 open. Hausner discusses the Nuremberg Trials and its influence on the establishment of international laws and principles. He then quotes from the International Military Tribunal. The judge questions the relevancy of the documents being presented by the prosecution. To answer Landau's question, Hausner refers to the "Nazi Punishment Law," an...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001024
• English
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Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The contents of the tape are not sequentially consistent with the official transcripts; rather the footage is arranged erratically starting in the middle of Session 6 with Attorney General Hausner's opening statement and ending in the beginning of Session 6 with Adolf Eichmann's plea hearing. Begins during Attorney General Hausner's opening speech. He states: "There was only one man who had been concerned almost entirely with the Jews, whose business had been their destruction that was Adolf Eichmann." There is a blip at 00:22:45 to 00:23:15, and the recording backtrack...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001025
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Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Begins during Attorney General Hausner's opening speech. He describes the terrible conditions inflicted upon the Jews in concentration camps. There is a blip at 00:04:42 and then Hausner continues his description by quoting eyewitness accounts of Nazi violence. There is another blip at 00:08:50 and the prosecutor refers to the extermination of Galician Jewry; he states, "The accused, as head of the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs, as Special Commissioner for the extermination of the Jews, bears direct responsibility as the initiator and implementer of this blood b...