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  1. Jewish orphans leave Prague for England after WWII

    Scenes showing a group of Jewish orphans leaving Prague for England under a British Home Office plan to transport one thousand orphaned concentration camp survivors to recuperate in Britain before their resettlement. This footage shows some of the 300 children, mostly boys, who were liberated from Theresienstadt and flown from Prague to England on August 14, 1945. They were initially settled at a hostel in Windermere where they received medical care. Boys board a Stirling aircraft on a grassy field at the Ruzyne airfield in Prague. One boy boards carrying a flag. Interior shots of the boys ...

  2. JDC aids DPs

    The clip begins, with a JDC spokesperson speaking at a podium: "...of the 80,000 Jews who have survived in Poland today, at least 70,000 require assistance." Then, voice over narration begins with music in the background and montage of shots described below: "...though the number is tragically small the need is greater than ever, for them JDC alone halts the hand of death..." DPs eating (including children). Medical exam - children. DPs receive clothing from JDC. Orphans from Buchenwald enroute to Marseilles, France and then on to Palestine: Children board train - US army personnel look on....

  3. DP camps compilation

    Compilaton containing footage of displaced persons camps from the SSFVA produced as research for the Museum's special exhibition on displaced persons called "Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951" on display from December 8, 1999 to May 21, 2000.

  4. Speeches at the 1933 harvest festival in Bueckeberg (Part 2)

    Title: "Deutscher Erntedanktag 1933 auf dem Bückeberg bei Hameln” “II. Teil.” Nazi flags, officers. “Auf dem Bückeberg.” An enormous crowd gathered on the hill to observe parade of military. Nazi flags on tall poles. Band waiting to march. Soldiers lounge in the grass. Cavalrymen approach their horses. 01:02:32 Intertitle: “Ankunft der Diplomaten.” Train carrying German diplomats. The side of the train reads, “MITROPA.” The diplomats, dressed in fine clothing, walk away from the train. 01:03:53 Intertitle: “Die Ehrengäste und Ab-ordnungen der Bauern-schaft begeben sich zur Festtribüne.” Gue...

  5. Ponar Yizkor

    A personal-poetic statement by the Holocaust survivor Meïr Shapiro with (commercially recorded) background music.

  6. Oral history interview with Dora Russek

  7. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    More scenes of life and the family visit to Bad Gastein, beginning with a farmer and his boys shoveling hay into a wagon. The family eats at an outside restaurant. The boys walk along a path in the mountains with their grandfather Fritz (and a nanny/host?). Waterfall. The boys enjoy another meal outdoors. The family takes a carriage ride through the city, and into the mountains. The boys pick flowers and rocks for their grandfather, who rests on a boulder, and then they thank him with hugs. Countryside. Cows meander about on a country road, near village homes. The boys ride horses and walk ...

  8. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr, Regina Longo, Russ Suniewick, and Sam Bryan for the Orphan 5 Film Symposium at the University of South Carolina in March 2006.

  9. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a Museum public program on April 16, 2004. Scenes include: -Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, 1933 -Russia, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Warsaw, city center & Jewish quarter, 1936/37; Krakow, main market square, 1936/37 -Katowice (main city of Upper Silesia), Poland, 1936/37; Gdynia, Poland, 1936/37; Danzig, 1936/37; Warsaw, Poland 1936/37 -Polish countrysi...

  10. Military vehicles; Christmas; devastated town

    EXT. Sign: "Maastricht Centrum 2.1, Tongeren 20." There is light snow on the ground. Vehicles passing jeep Toluca. CU of Stevens, smiles, points. Guard checking passing truck. Rooftops with vapor trails of planes in the BG. Street scene, a check point with a GI and a civilian. Christmas sequence. CU boxes of 105mm Howitzer shells, pan to Stevens sitting on jeep. He writes "Merry Christmas" with his finger in snow on the jeep. Stevens, bareheaded, crewcut, opening Christmas present. Shows package with card: "To Dad from _____and George." Opens package, it is a shaving kit. Shaving kit is fil...

  11. The Yiddish Voice

    Abraham Brumberg on "The Yiddish Voice" radio program, primarily in Yiddish. Disc 1: August 8, 2001, Abraham Brumberg talks with Mark David about the new book "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Antifascist Committee" (2001), edited by Rubinstein. He also presents the poetry of Soviet writers. Disc 2: August 13, 2008, A program in memory of the late Dr Brumberg, featuring Forverts writer Iosif Lakhman.

  12. Oral history interview with Kalman Russek

  13. Life in DP camps in Germany

    A documentary film about the life of the Jewish people in the DP camps in Germany. Children boarding trains. Supplies. UNRRA. Men kissing. Loading displaced women and luggage onto flatbed trucks. MS, baby lifted onto truck. More shots of DPs boarding truck, loading luggage. CU, boy with guitar and other children, waving goodbye as trucks depart. In Landsberg, women with babies and carriages in the park, children playing. Man speaking to crowd, davening. Religious ceremony. Hebrew memorial sign reading "150,000." Pan, men at meeting, sitting at table. Man delivering speech, reading. Crowd lo...

  14. 700 Years Celebration of Berlin

    Parade of floats. Chimney sweeps. Crowds. Umbrellas. Brandenburg Gate. Children. Berliner Weisse. Old women watch. Some HAS, quick cuts. 01:03:03 "Eröffnung der Wallbergstrasse bei Tegernsee durch Stabschef Lutze" [SA Chief Lutze opens Wallbergstreet near Tegernsee] “Deutsche Arbeit” 01:03:42 Car floats with Nazi themes. One large eagle. "Fest der Pferde." "Pferdezüchter der Bretagne." Horse show. Peasant costumes. 01:05:22 "Verkehrs…" Chemnitz. Traffic signal training. Closeup of traffic signals. Policeman testing cart driver. “Verkehrssünder” [Traffic sinners] 01:07:13 “Slalom im kayak au...

  15. Representations of the Jew in Nazi German Propaganda

    Eight archival film segments compiled for a summer staff seminar in 2008. The production was also created as a possible program related to the Musuem's propaganda initiative. Segments include: Goebbels, February 10, 1933 [01:17] "Kaufmann, nicht Haendler" (1933/1936) [02:40] Goebbels, UFA newsreel 1935 [01.04] "Der Ewige Jude" (1940) [07:25] "Juden, Lause, Wanzen" (1942) [01:25] "Kampf dem Fleckfieber" (1942) [01:30] Warsaw ghetto, unfinished film (1942) [12:20] Propaganda film team in Theresienstadt (1942) [01:00]

  16. Oral history interview with Paula Kempinski

  17. Boder visits family in Latvia before the Holocaust

    David Boder with family in Liepaja, Latvia - pre-war. A man and woman standing on a balcony with decorative iron scrolling. (0:07) Two men dressed in suits step out of a building. A sign in the background says J. Simson. Two couples in a park walk toward the camera and smile. A different man, dressed in a suit, smiles at the camera, then walks down a set of steps. There is a plaque on a stone column next to the steps [plaque is illegible]. A woman walks arm in arm with a man in a uniform, then the same man in uniform walks with two women who are smiling. Two women in front of a statue, like...

  18. Lwow compilation: video finding aid

    Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian land from Polish landlords Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 539 R.2 (1940) (in 00:14:59 out 00:23:40 of original tape) 01:15:05 to 01:25:15 RG-60.3119 Soviet...

  19. German Order Police; Warsaw in ruins; Germans occupy Polish towns

    Excerpts from the private records of Nazi official, Kurt Kreikenbom, a gendarmerie colonel, including films titled "Polen" and "Einsatz in Russland". In color, two order policemen in uniform on horses, street scenes and panning towards a building with trees in bloom, location unknown. WS, pan, large building. Switches to black and white, pan river, bridge. Polish town square with pedestrians (including an elderly Jew) and horse-drawn carriages, field with small homes. 00:02:08 Warsaw street scenes, pedestrians, traffic, statue, people walk across bridge. LS, pan, bridge across Vistula river...

  20. Dora Camp; opening of railroad bridge

    LIB 6703 Camp Dora Nordhausen, Germany May 16, 1945 A car driving through a lot, airplane hangar in BG. VS, Congressman Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Commander John S Young step out of a car and board a small plane. They disembark and greet two US officers. The officers then bring them on a tour of prison camp Dora. They stand outside a building with a sign that reads, “HEADQUARTERS CAMP DORA.” The visitors question a former prisoner. VS, Congressman Dirksen and Commander Young visit various locations on the grounds, including an underground factory where V-1 and V-2s were manufactured. L...