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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Conscripts forced to labor in Hungary

    Magyar Híradó 816. Intertitle: “MÁTÉSZALKA. A VIII. közérdekíí munkaszolgálatos zászlóalj út-építési munkálatai. M.F.I.-KISS E.” Forced labor battalions constructing roads. Men dig shovels and pickaxes into the dirt. Others unload materials from wagons alongside a pile of large rocks next to train tracks. WS of the labor battalions working in a field. Some move wheelbarrows full of rocks and others keep digging in the dirt. Others in the battalion work on breaking up the large rocks into smaller ones using sledgehammers. Behind them, officers survey their work. Men kneel down and hammer awa...

  2. Radio Luxembourg Collection

    Contents include propaganda broadcasts transmitted from 1944-1945 by the black propaganda radio station Sender 1212 (Radio 1212) and interviews conducted in 1979 with ex-personnel, Edmund Schechter and Hanuš Burger.

  3. Excerpts from private film collections: American soldiers encounter Nazi atrocities at liberation

    The Nazi concentration camps shocked the battle-hardened young men and women in the US military who encountered them in 1945. American soldiers and nurses shot these amateur films using handheld cameras. Eyewitness Films is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the special exhibition, American Witnesses. The video is a curated selection of private film footage from the Museum's Spielberg Film Archive, which collects, preserves, and provides access to important eyewitness documentation of World War II and the Holocaust. There is graphic content that may not...

  4. Oral history interview with Julius Blum

  5. Reporters cover the opening of the Barbie Trial

    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...

  6. Excerpts from private film collections of prewar Jewish life

    A glimpse into the lives of individuals who were soon swept into the destruction of the war. (28:45 minutes) Part One of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today -- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conve...

  7. Oral history interview with David Jakubowski

  8. Business travel in Mindanao

    Walter Rauscher travels to Mindanao as the Manila representative for Levy & Blum, Inc.

  9. Prewar life in an Austrian village and tourist views of Prague

    Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, men and boys wear top hats and lederhosen or breeches, on the occasion of a Catholic holiday(?). Shop signs advertise film equipment/stock - Agfa and Perutz. 01:59 German flag with a swasti...

  10. Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Civilians with rucksacks walking down street with belongings. Some wheeling bicycles. Refugees. These are twilight shots, autumn leaves in the pictures. Red Cross truck followed by jeep coming down street. More shots of refugees. Some of the men are dressed in suits and ties, roads are wet and muddy. Woman wheeling a pushcart with belongings. Two people embrace. Stevens walks toward camera. Empty wet street. Tank coming through town past Hotel Caspiel Hindenburg. Men running, including cameraman, some men firing mortars, others small light weapons. Members of camera crew visible in frame. P...

  11. Belsen: Medics moving typhus patients

    Medics loading trucks with people suffering from typhus. Red Cross truck. Women walking in a forest.

  12. Belsen: Survivors eating

    Man sits alone eating soup, another eating bread. MS, through barbed wire. Survivors, some organize others. Young man sitting in hay, idly scratches neck. General LSs of camp with debris.

  13. DPs loading luggage on truck

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

  14. Moving into the Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto. Carts/wagons, some containing belongings. People with star armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes. Busy scenes. People appear worried. Walking across a bridge, moving into ghetto. Bicycle. Various shots. (01:39:08 - 01:39:10 black screen) Some CUs. Moving furniture. Belongings on cart. Girls with chairs. Tram passes. People in the streets. More shots of furniture, the bridge, people walking, and carts. Sign reads: "Fur Juden, fur nicht Juden." Baby carriages. CU armband.

  15. Awards from Nazi officials; wounded German vets; Volksturm; U-boat inspection

    POSTHUMOUS AWARDS: CU, Iron Cross, CUs, display of medals - men at attention. Civilians receiving awards from Herman Goering, Karl von Runstedt, Admiral Erich Raeder and Herman Goering. Goering pays homage at dead soldier's bier. MS, casket placed into mausoleum. Kriegsmarine. HITLER VISITS WOUNDED VETS IN HOSPITAL: CU, Adolf Hitler arriving; with wounded vets, people cheer as he departs. MS, Hitler with officers in the field. MS, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Gen Guderian and others standing and talking in field. Review: Sequence - youthful officer inspecting and addressing company of...

  16. Russian fashion designer

    Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Women's heels. Singer sewing machine.

  17. Kriegsberichterstattung: Von einem Gefangenenlager in Italien senden britische Kriegsgefangene Weihnachtsgrüße an ihre Familien

    Decelith Folie D. 8 discs. "From a prison camp in Italy, British prisoners of war send Christmas and New Years greetings to their families." Several South African soldiers speak in Afrikaans to their families. The narrator names, gives the home address, and mentions specific family members of each POW. The POWs say they are “fit and well” and send love and greetings to family and friends by name. Some names are unintelligible. One provides an address of 18 Ratcliffe Road, Yorkshire, Sheffield. Ralph Thompson Matthews calling his wife Vera Matthews, 143 Oxford Road, County West (?). Gunner T...

  18. 1922 funeral of a Jew

    Concordia Film 2. “Az áldozatok temetése” (The victim’s funeral) and a decorative border with CONCORDIA FILM at the bottom. Men in coats stand in front of the glass windows of a shop, price tags attached to every item. “Mintegy 20000 ember vett részt az áldozatok temetésén” (About 20,000 people attended the victim’s funeral). The crowd dressed in dark colors. Bearded man. “A közismert amerikai Pedlow kapitány a temetésen” (The well-known American captain Pedlow at the funeral). A man in uniform (Pedlow?) thumbs through a book. More shots of the funeral crowd. “Az áldozatok hozzátartozói”. S...

  19. Street activity in the Krakow ghetto

    Jewish man with star armband walks along cobbled streets of Krakow ghetto. Pedestrians and a horse with wagon cross a bridge. MS, pan of street activity - people walking and traffic. More people cross the bridge. Good view of main street in the ghetto. Wagon filled with belongings and furniture. Women and children converse in the street. View of another street, man takes a photograph. Another view of bustling streets in the ghetto.

  20. Skiing; Americans visit Vienna; Austrian military

    Storefronts with German writing, shuttered shops (winter?). Steep snowy hill, people climb stairs to top of ski jump. At another ski hill, many figures mill about and ski. Title card: “Ringstrasse, Oper, Hotel Bristol Kaerntnerstrasse.” Visiting the city of Vienna. Vienna State Opera House, with buses driving by on the street. Street scenes. The Hotel Bristol. Title card: “Goethe Denkmal, Burg Tor, Museums, Maria Theresia Denkmal, Neue Hofburg.” Statue of Goethe. The Burg Tor, an old castle gate. Statue of Maria Theresa. Trolleys go by on the street. The Hofburg Palace. A decorated horse an...