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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Salon; new fashions; Russian designer

    Salon, group of women sitting, letting hair set under hairnets. Male hairdresser brushes out one's locks. Another male hairdresser points to chart on wall, Stalin posters hang beside it. Women modeling new fashions. Group of women sit at bottom of stairs looking at new fashions on models. Longer shot as they pose for the camera. A designer sketches into notepad. Shots of group watching models. New outfits featured on rotating doors.

  2. Zlatke fun Rogatke | Der rebe mit di talmidim

    Yiddish performance of "Zlatke fun Rogatke" (A Side) and "Der rebe mit di talmidim" (B Side). Performers: Elvira Boczcovska and Shimon Nussbaum, vocals. Recorded in Paris, circa 1947; reissued in Argentina early 1950s.

  3. Persecution of Jewish children

    This is a short FICTION film. Soundtrack is music and 'wild sound'- no narration, no dialogue. The film begins with one of Hitler’s anti-Jewish speeches and is followed by a German military march. An ambulance with a Red Cross sign enters a gate leading to what looks like a school-yard surrounded by barbed wire. As a group of children play in the yard, an SS man fills the gas tank and connects an exhaust pipe to the “ambulance.” In the next scene the children climb into the truck along with their guardian, while a point-of-view shot from inside the ambulance focuses on a group of birds outs...

  4. Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938

    B/W aerial shots from a cable car (it’s shadow can be clearly seen), interspersed with shots of the actual cable car system from the ground, CU of a woman pointing at the trees from the cable car. 01:00:58:2 Title: “Hradec Králové.” Pan, a public park. A shot of a group of people admiring topiary. 01:01:22:11 Title: “Moravska Ostrava.” Pan up, a trolley car drives by, as people walk around the city, shots of people going to and fro. 01:01:47:11 Title: “Poland.” Film is now in color, with a shot of farmers working in the field, followed by a brief shot of a parade in a city. 01:02:10:21 Titl...

  5. Nazi sympathizers in the United States, 1934

    Paramount News 1934 "Air U.S. Nazi Movement! Militant anti-Jewish groups gain throughout country! Expose of wide propaganda campaign made by F. Moley, editor of 'Today'." Moley presents his support of American Nazism and anti-Jewish propaganda. MS, Silver Shirt book store in Los Angeles, "Truth brings Liberation" "Aryan Book Store." Silver Shirts handing out anti-semitic literature on street corner. CU, "Silver Ranger" newspaper with headline: "Free Speech Stopped by Jew Riot" and date January 1934. Speech about enemies by head of the Cincinnati chapter of the Friends of the New Germany. An...

  6. German soldiers advance; Russians surrender; Burial ceremony

    The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. Reel 15: Soldiers prepare and eat food in the heat and fraternise with their Italian comrades in arms, whom they are relieving. Tschigirin (Ukraine) in September 1941. Soldiers prepare thei...

  7. Family; Open-air exhibition; Amusement park

    The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. Reel 2: "First cine film (1935)" Family scenes include Erna Biedenbach walking in town (possibly Stuttgart) and entering shop (Biedenbach family shop?). Grandparents with todder Hans-Jorg B...

  8. Trial in the case of the atrocities committed by Germans and a Ukrainian accomplice in and around Kharkov in 1943

    7 reels, titles and voice-over in Spanish. Coverage of the actual trial of Captain Wilhelm Langheld; Reinhard Retzlaff, an official of the German field police; Lieutenant Hans Ritz, an SS company commander, and Bulanov, a Russian traitor. Spectators include people whose families had been murdered. Every statement in the trial was translated into German, and each defendant was represented by counsel. Many witnesses were called, and the defendants themselves testified. Captain Langheld stated that he had personally beaten women to death but pointed out that he was not the only one. "The entir...

  9. GIs at Camp Boston

    Back at Camp Boston. Murray poses in a field. Soldiers show off their injuries after a football game. One day pass to Reims. Details of the Reims Cathedral. A GI cafe. Fuzzy shots of train cars. Scenes of the countryside from a passing train. Soldiers smoke cigarettes and explore an abandoned German railway gun. Trucks enter the USA Calais Staging Area. Panoramic shots of the camp, including tents. Soldiers pose in a group shot with a dog. Soldiers pack their things and board box cars.

  10. Generals and medal ceremony; GIs resting at campsite

    Shot of bombed out cathedral. Twilight shot panning down from bombed out cathedral across bombed out village. Men from camera unit in FG. Shot in bivouac area. General Bernard Montgomery walks into CU. Two-star general reading something from paper. Men walk up, salute Montgomery and medal is pinned on, shakes hands. Another name is called out, another man walks up. Underlit shot of three star general and other officers, two of whom are wearing khaki peaked caps with red band. Two three-star generals talking to Montgomery, one in center appears to be Omar Bradley in helmet. Gen. George Patto...

  11. Liberation of French town; civilians; church

    Stevens digging foxhole with another man. Men eating dinner on camp tables with tin cups. VS of unidentified men in the camp. Gag shot: Sign reads: "Bridge ahead under fire." Stevens seated in jeep turns toward camera and motions forward. Jeep and trucks drive off. Shot of vehicle coming toward camera in late afternoon light with bombed buildings on either side of country road and troops on foot. French civilians walking. Jeep follows. Reverse angle with Red Cross truck and severely bombed village. Shot on dusty road. Shot of jeep at waterfront area, most likely Cherbourg, France. Pan of ch...

  12. Peasants

    Peasants [in the Caucusus?] on ferry, horses eating hay. Women with white kerchiefs sitting on wooden carts on the ferry. VAR shots of peasants.

  13. Interviews regarding Sobibor Uprising

    Compilation of oral histories with survivors involved with the Sobibor uprising.

  14. Liberation of Czechoslovakia; refugees

    Red Cross workers on roadside with civilians. Shot of city from high angle. Sign, in English and Russian reads: "Welcome the American Heroic Army." Another part of the sign reads: "Welcome the Soviet Army." Pan to jeep Toluca. Sign in Czech reads: "Vplzni...Skodovy Zavody." LS from balcony to train station. Sign reads: "You are entering Pilsen by courtesy of CCB 16th Armd. Div." Another sign reads: "What you see on the street don't blame on the pigeons." VS of truckload of women and children holding red flags with hammer and sickle on them. They drive off and what appears to be a Russian of...

  15. Tourists visit church and palace in Russia

    Quick LS, plaza/building. HAS fountain from building. Orthodox church steeple. Russian flag with hammer and sickle emblem. INT, woman looking at Christian exhibition. Group of tourists (Bryan's American students?) posing for photo in front of fountain seen earlier.

  16. Germans advance into Ukraine

    Two soldiers pose for the camera with their heads stuck out of holes in a military-issued tent. A third man pours water on them. In FG, automobile. Panning the campsite. CU of the Edelweiss insignia, indicating that these are troops of the 1st Mountain Division of the Army South. 00:00:47 Mass at the campsite with crowd of seated German soldiers. They pray and accept Eucharist. 00:01:12 Pan of the landscape and surrounding woods. Watch tower. Deep tire tracks in the mud. 00:01:34 Two soldiers survey with binoculars. Soldiers in tall grass with rifles. 00:02:00 Armored tank. CU bullet holes ...

  17. Oral history interview with Jack Rosenthal

  18. In Mein Sheyner Warshe | Lebedik Amcho

    Yiddish performance of "In Mein Sheyner Warshe" and "Lebedik Amcho." Radio Leon. Recorded in Buenos Aires in 1949. Side A: In Mein Sheyner Warshe (In mayn sheyner varshe). Arranged by Oppenheim and Heller. Performers: Menashe Oppenheim, voice; Jascha Galperin, piano. (Opening line: "A song dedicated to the city where I lost everything and everyone, a song dedicated to the city where I was born.") Side B: Lebedik Amcho (Lebedik amkho). Folk melody, arranged by Oppenheim. Performers: Menashe Oppenheim, voice; Simon Tenowsky, piano.

  19. Roma in Hungary 1944

    Hungarian intertitles. “A csentei gederr (cigány település) messze a falvak népétõl…” Two young girls and a boy wander through a field of tall grasses on the edge of a forest. The two girls sit down in the grass on a slope. The tall grain sways in the wind. Intertitle: “Feltünnek a földbevájt kunyhók.” A vast field with a few trees on the horizon. Children run. The kids smile and sing. Women and children use a pot to cook on the ground. They are in tattered clothing. Intertitle: “az ebéd…” Someone uses a spoon to move around the food in the pot over the flame. Huts. Intertitle: “a bagó mind...

  20. Belsen: Nazis unload corpses

    Nazi women unload bodies from truck into pit. Nazi woman, scowling, unloading/dropping bodies off truck and into a pit. In BG, pit getting full. Women walking along pit, heaving bodies in (little scratches), dragging woman with shirt.