• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001472
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

Women showing tattoos. Two men, twins, pose for camera. People getting on/off boat to Ellis Island with luggage. Relatives waiting/waving on ship. Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 05:01:51.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001474
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, ...

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• irn1000181
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. 02:35:32 MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissin...

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• irn1000178
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 319, Part 5. Release date, 08/06/1944. Refugees arriving at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY. CU, families; people mingling. LS from above, two story barracks; train arrival. MLS, people waiting alongside tracks. CU, train slowly going by, with young people waving. "982 refugees...housed at Fort Ontario 'Til War's End." View up from ground to windows, bottle of juice passed up. CU, curly-haired girl and father look out window. 02:28:35 At next train window, mother and son, Regina and Albert Gal, and three others smile for the camera. Refugees helped off train. Woman...

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• irn1003147
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

[Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...

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• irn1000319
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 372, Part 4. Release date, 02/12/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "St. Nazaire Civilians" After Yank-Nazi parleys under truce, French civilians are evacuated daily by French Red Cross train, from Nazi-held St. Nazaire. Small group of German officers speak to American soldiers, gather by train tracks (possible truce to get refugees out of St. Nazaire, France.) Train pulls up, view of little girl on crutches, people walking. Lots of little kids in train window waving, packed in. View from above of train pulling away. Other parts of the ne...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn625244
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Paramount Newsreel, Issue 51, Released February 1944 “Italy: Yugoslav Patriots Rescued!” Voice: Bob Harris Yugoslav civilians rescued and transported to Allied territory in Italy for rehabilitation. Signal Corps film of refugees from Yugoslavia getting off boat in Italy, some with large bundles. Animated map. Barracks and tents, line of refugees walking. Soldier checks papers. Walking past barracks. Col. Macfarland, US Army Chief of the “dis-placed persons commission” talks to a group. US soldiers unload truck with American food, ham. The refugees eat soup, bread. Yugoslav soldiers from “Ti...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn624816
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, fixes bunks, luggage on shelf, scrubs clothes. INT, wounded men in hospital (matches photo from Récébédou), nurses. “1938” Refugees trek over mountain in snow, warm a boy’s feet at fire (acco...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001218
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 287, Part 3. Release date, 04/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Italian Refugee Problem" The Allied Control Commission humanely handles the thousands of pathetic refuges who require clothing, food, and bivouac until the tides of war roll by. Italian refugees mill around courtyard/piazza with duffel bags. Little kids are dressed. Children and adults are fed. Mostly CUs. MLS courtyard/square. People stand around with bundles. CU kids with bandages and scarves wrapped around head. Baby bounced. CU little girl. MS people enter building, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000587
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1000454
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

05:07:09 Title: "Die erste grosse Ausstellung des Reichsnaehrstandes. Reichsminister Darre eroeffnet in Erfurt die riesige Schau der deutschen Landvolks." Erfurt, Germany. Reichsnaehrstand-Ausstellung (Reich exhibition and festival on social and moral position of the farmer within the German Volk). Darre speaks. LS fairgrounds and activities. Exhibition sites with machines, animals, breeding cattle and horses. "Blut und Boden" sign. Swastika with two wheat stalks. 05:08:38 Title: "Helden der Wissenschaft. Die deutschen Hoehenforscher Dr. Ing. Schrenck und Viktor Masuch stuerzten mit dem Bal...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1003697
• English
• 1943
• Updated 1 year ago

Poor quality image. Scenes from a ceremony honoring officials of the Reichsbahn. The ceremony takes place in a large hall, filled with uniformed spectators. Reichsverkehrsminister (Reich Minister for Transporation) Dr. Julius Dorpmueller is present. The audience applauds as several men receive the military honor of the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross). The recipients named in the Bundesarchiv description are: Reichsbahn Oberinspektor Hellenthal, Direktionspraesident Grimm, Lokfuehrer Kindervater, Direktionspraesident Lammerts, Lokfuehrer Bierschenk and Direktionspraesident Dr. Godefroy. Josef G...

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• irn1003434
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Title on screen: "Feierliche Einfuehrung des Reichsbischofs Mueller im Dom zu Berlin in Anwesendheit saemtlicher Bischoefe des Landeskirchen. Begeisterte Begruessung durch Abordunungen aus dem Reich. [Investiture of Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller, in the presence of all the other bishops. Joyful greetings from delegates from throughout the Reich.]" View of the Berlin Cathedral Four lines of clergy exiting the church. Shots of spectators, close-up of Mueller. Dark shot of Mueller, others, entering the church while giving the Nazi salute. Large crowds waiting outside. Mueller and others exit the...

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• irn1003193
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• Updated 1 year ago

Title: "Reichstag is gutted by Fire by Red Incendiaries - Chamber, where Deputies meet in Berlin parliament, is destroyed as result of communist plot." Exterior shots of the damaged dome of the Reichstag, fireman with their truck on the street, shifts to interior scenes of the gutted building. Close ups of structural damage and still-smoking rubble. A policeman stands in the wreckage. Fireman spray water on the rubble. The British narrator tells of the fire, and says that after the imminent general election, Parliament will need to find a temporary home. He notes that Hindenburg's chair was...

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• irn556025
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan Hus Memorial. The square is packed. German officials walk towards the grandstand. Around 60,000 people have gathered in the square (the German minority in Prague was significant). Aerial view. Dr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002557
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

News Film - The Week in Film: Ten thousand repatriates return home to Prague from concentration camps.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002097
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report from Nuremberg. A chart illustrates the NSDAP organization. Defense lawyers raise questions of translation, etc. A discussion break for the accused and counsel. Robert Jackson's opening prosecution address. Concentration camp orphans fly to England to spend Christmas. They enjoy a welcoming meal at the airport.

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• irn1004837
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

The opening of the trial against Klaus Barbie on the lunch hour news show "Midi 2," dated May 11 1987. Press were only allowed to film the opening of the trial. Shots include the arrival of Klaus Barbie and the President of the Court (the steward of the trial, Andre Cerdini), the roll call of attorneys and present witnesses, and commentary by Midi 2's reporter on the trial itself. The press are dismissed at the end of the clip, as they aren't allowed to film anything beyond the very start of the session before jurors are selected. As the dismissal takes place, the reporter (Paul Lefevre) de...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002883
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. At Munich, England and France allowed Hitler to take over....appeasement did not work. Less than a year later war raged in Europe. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:08:31 "Operation Big L...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002616
• English
• 1938-1939
• Updated 1 year ago

Reel 1. VS of German and Italian soldiers. Reviewing troops, parade, etc. Official visit of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Italy. Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also present. He and Ribbentrop converse inside a place. People cheering and waving in the streets, carrying large letters that spell out "DUCE". 00:57:00 Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia. Hungarian troops enter easternmost town of East Slovakia (closest to Ukrainian border). Troops march through streets, welcomed by crowds of civilians with flowers, banners, etc. CU of older man, a decorated war veteran with many meda...