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  1. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    EXT, overhead of dozens of horses and horsedrawn wagons on a main street in Warsaw, lined with people on both sides. CU, rear view of soldiers in the Polish Mountain Regiment marching in formation. They wear rounded helmets with large brims and carry rifles with bayonets. They wear capes. A motorcade of motorcycles with side cars makes its way down the street, followed by soldiers marching in formation. Army trucks carry soldiers wearing backpacks.

  2. Eric Berryman collection

    Includes one letter relating to an idea for a book publication and a wedding invitation from one of Shalom Steinbach's children. The letter was sent to Dr. Eric Berryman by the publisher, Stefan Grunwald, on September 9, 1985.

  3. BDM: exercise; marching on roadside

    Entire clip intercut with titles, beginning with "Education in Germany today". BDM girls exercising in a circle, running, and practicing the javelin throw. Younger girls walk along a country road in Saxony, stake a flag, eat lunch, read, nap, and perform silly skits. According to a transcript of Bryan's film lecture on Nazi Germany in the U.S. in 1938, this is a country road from Nurnberg to Dresden in Saxony. This particular compilation of trims may have been compiled for screening at one of Bryan's public lectures.

  4. Stalingrad (Battle)

    Animated map showing Stalingrad and surrounding area. The narrator announces "The Battle for Stalingrad." Stalingrad, which lasted from October 1942 to February 1943, and ended with a German defeat, was the turning point in the war against the USSR. This footage must be from the early days of the battle, when things were going well for the Germans. Two men, with their backs to the camera. One looks through binoculars into the distance. The narrator says that the Germans are firing on an ordnance factory. Shots of cannons firing alternate with shots of the city being shelled. Stukas flying o...

  5. Literary archives of Shloyma Borisovich Chernyavskiy

    Contains poetry written by Shloyma Borisovich Chernyavskiy.

  6. Marshall Smigly-Rydz and President Ignacy Moscicki

    A courtyard, rows of chairs set up for an event, Polish soldiers in uniform, flags. Soldiers stand at attention, watching more people assemble, someone sweeps a red carpet, the courtyard fills, pressmen jump around, receiving line is ready, motion picture cameras and still cameras, cameramen running around to catch every angle as dignitary begins to review the troops. Polish planes fly in formation overhead. Arrival of Smigly-Rydz. 01:14:35:16 MCU he tips his hat, looks very stern, does not smile. Ceremony continues, he passes on the scepter to President Ignacy Moscicki, there is a bust of ...

  7. Kozienice ghetto papers

    The papers consist of documents relating to the Jewish ghetto and the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kozienice, Poland. The documents include a full list of the inhabitants of the Kozienice ghetto, lists of Jews registered as able-bodied, a list of Jewish children born in the ghetto during the years 1939 to 1941, and other reports written by the employees of the Judenrat to the German authorities. Kozienice is a small town in the Radom district of central Poland. Approximately 5,000 Jews lived in the town before World War II. The Germans established a ghetto in Kozienice in the fall of 1940 a...

  8. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg collection

    Contains protocols, correspondence, writings of M. Plaut, personal papers of Epstein, who was chairman of the Jewish community, including poems and writings from Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942), restitution matters, postcards of Lotte Cahn from Theresienstadt and Łódź, Poland, and letters from Hamburg, Germany (1935-1937).

  9. Postwar conditions of housing and YMCAs in Europe and the Far East

    Credits. EXT, bridges in San Francisco and Germany. Bridges at war - soldiers and tanks, bombings. Repaired bridge in Manila in October 1946. Views of damage to buildings in Manila. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. YMCA services. 01:06:36 Boys club meeting of the YMCA outdoors in Manila. Baseball game. Damaged Y building. INTs, woman cooking in her home; her family eats. Student accommodations. Vocational training - repairing an automobile. Boxing match. Amateur night (musical performance). 01:09:55 Cathedral in Prague. City scenes, some buildings with damage. Two men en...

  10. Poles in apartment

    INT of apartment, clothing hanging on coat rack. Girl kisses mother, boy kisses mother, sick child in bed, CUs. Girl with kitten. Older man cleaning tile floor.

  11. Simon Makon sings Yiddish folk songs

    Yiddish folk songs, sung by Simon Makon, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto.

  12. German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

    Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. CU: a young woman is very uncomfortable with the camera on her, she holds her hand to her face, her expression is between a smile and despair, she is trying to remain composed for the camera. MS, a woman carries a bundle of all of her belongings wrapped in a blanket on her back as she flees from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Warsaw's city center that has been under attack by the Germans. 01:12:17: Dead horse, covered in lime, being dragged from the middle of the stree...

  13. Rivka Lozansky-Bogomolnaya collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and photograph albums relating to the life of people in the shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys), Lithuania, before 1941. It also contains a manuscript written by Riva Lozansky that describe the destruction of Butrimantz; the book, "If I Forget Thee..the destruction of the shtetl Butrimantaz," is based upon the manuscript.

  15. Airship construction

    Airship construction. Workers gather in circle.

  16. Stan Ostern documents

    Contains a notarized copy of the birth certificate of the Stan Ostern [donor] (born March 22, 1935, Poland) under Russian occupation and an identity card from the Feldafing Displaced persons' camp.

  17. Polish cavalry

    Footage of Polish Cavalry soldiers. Cannot confirm location where this was shot, but Bryan references shooting these scenes in 1937. Scene with six Polish soldiers sitting down, looking at papers or maps and discussing something. Cut to soldiers loading cannons that look more like WWI artillery rather than WWII. They have wooden wheels, etc. Repeat of the horses rushing down the hillside, driven by soldiers, rather random/staged looking battle scenes, one of the soldiers is on a field phone in one of the MCUs. Followed by shots of tanks and more soldiers, this time wearing combat helmets ra...

  18. Zinnowald Schule, Berlin

    Zinnowald Schule in Berlin. Girls on bicycles. INT classroom. Art class. CU, girl's drawing.

  19. Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming

    Sequence of outtakes. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart. Road with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. CUs hay. Farmers working. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937,"...

  20. Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe

    The collection includes Dr. Eduard Bloch's autobiography titled “Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe,” written between 1941 and 1945. In his autobiography, Eduard provides a history of his family and details his life in Austria and his family’s immigration to the United States as well as and his career as a physician, including his professional acquaintance with the Hitler family. The collection also includes a translation of the autobiography titled “Why I left Europe and what I have achieved in America.”