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  1. USHMM Memorial Tribute to Jeshajahu (Shaike) Weinberg

    AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Jeshajahu (Shaike) Weinberg on June 2, 2000.

  2. Bergen-Belsen related records

    The records relate to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, displaced persons, the Belsen memorial, and Jewish emigration to the Palestine after the Holocaust.

  3. Boys receive medical treatment in mountains

    Two small boys in front of door to house/cabin, one holds a toy car, the other with crutches. Men walk down stairwell at log cabin (seen in Story 4526 on Film ID 3038). EXT, boys receive medical treatment, beds are outdoors on a deck. Boy plays with record player, other toys.

  4. Yiddish sound recordings from the Medem Library

    Yiddish sound recordings from the collection of the Medem Library, Paris. Selections include Holocaust-related music recorded in postwar France and prewar repertoire largely recorded in Poland. Track lists attached.

  5. Oral history interview with Helen Mastbaum

  6. Arthur Kannenberg & Bechtler collection footage

    Edited compilation of amateur footage from the Bechtler collection documenting Arthur Kannenberg (Hitler's house manager) and other Nazi officials. Notable figures include: - Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland and Martin Mutschmann, Gauleiter of Saxony, enjoying fishing from a bridge - Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot - Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring with other Luftwaffe and military figures, including Galland, at what appeared to be the Wolfsschanze, Hitler's Führer Headquarters in Rastenberg - Reichsleiter Martin Bormann and Josef Grohé, Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen, at the Wolfsschanze - Luftw...

  7. Kriegsberichterstattung: Neujahrsstimmung

    Decelith Folie D. War report by D'Haese. "New Year's Mood"

  8. Jewish life in Radom, 1936

    Jewish life and the synagogue in Radom, Poland in 1936, filmed by an unknown cameraperson. The film was produced by the Radom Society/Club and includes Manny (Mendel) Sztainberg and his uncles, Jacob and Stanley. Added musical track, not original to the silent film, and captions. Well-dressed people walking in street, summer. 01:16 Radom Synagogue. Exterior views. Congregants in courtyard. Men in prayer shawls. 03:25 View from window to street. Teenage girls and boys leaving synagogue. 04:05 Families leaving and walking on street. 04:20 Family walking in street with crowd. Husband, wife and...

  9. Landsberg DP camp: school, library, children

    CU DP boy in Landsberg, Germany. Hebrew sign. Teacher and children dancing, playing, learning. Children in classroom at desks learning Hebrew. Teacher pointing to map of Israel. Reading posted notices. Men and women outside. Sign reading "Landsberger Szpigel Ojshams Cusztand in Erec Jisroel." Man dictating letter to women with typewriter. The woman at the typewriter has been identified by a patron as Minna Aspler (nee Friedland.) Distributing newspapers. Men smiling at camera. More, reading papers posted on board. CU, Chaim N. Bialik Library sign. Reading in library. Men reading papers at t...

  10. Kriegsberichterstattung: Judenherrschaft im Sovj. Russland

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Bertrand Nicole on "Jewish rule in Soviet Russia" regarding French war guards.

  11. Levy family on SS France - departure and arrival in France

    Levy family on the SS France ship from May 21-28, 1927. Crowds gathered on the French Line pier in New York to see the SS France depart on May 21, 1927. New York harbor and Statue of Liberty. At leisure on the boat walking toward the camera: Lou Hartman on left with August Levy; Clara Levy with Dora Hartman; Emilie Jane; August with Lou Hartman. 01:18:10 Faceless boy in knickers and knee socks is the cameraman, Carl, better shot of him at 01:18:31. Scenes aboard the ship. Sally Hartman reads on deck. 01:19:12 Boat reaches Southhampton, England where a tender came out to take off the British...

  12. War destruction in the Netherlands

    EXT, Grand Hotel. Red flag with white cross on it, jeep Toluca and khaki sedan stopped on roadside by ESSO gas station. Toluca with weapons carrier behind drives through a bombed out part of town. Shot of harbor from street, trolley wires overhead. VS of harbor, street corner with building that had been destroyed by bombs. VS of the city, street full of rubble, more bombed out buildings, spire of church in BG. Civilians and two German soldiers walking down street. Pan of part of town that is nearly leveled. Shot of jeep driving past store with sign that reads: "F. Woolworth Company." Army s...

  13. Roma/Sinti caravan in Russia

    HAS, Roma/Sinti in caravan, moving through town with bulls and wagons. Good close shots, women and children, older man. VAR shots, moving about on dirt roads with bull and wagon. Man with hat holding son. At camp in hills, setting up for overnight, VAR, shots. LS, Roma/Sinto caravan on country road.

  14. Red Cross treats victims of Penig concentration camp

    Jewish Concentration Camp, Penig, Germany, April 17, 1945. German uniformed medics carry female survivors from concentration camp in Penig into hospital from Red Cross ambulances. VAR MSs and CUs, females on litters waiting to be carried. Survivors smile widely. Hospital sign, "Zum Luftschutz-Sanitaetsraum." 01:01:16 Ambulances traveling on road. LS, medics take survivors on litters out of ambulance and line cots on the grass. Medic talks to a survivor, helps another walk into the hospital. Red Cross nurses. INT, American doctors consult surviviors in their hospital beds, treat wounds. Aeri...

  15. Operation of V-1 rocket, animation

    SUMMARY: This is a three reel composite technical information film on the operation and launching of the FZG-76 (V- 1). Reel 1. Narrator describes the complete operation and function of all parts as they are portrayed on the screen. Men wheeling V-1 on field. Animated drawing of the rocket showing the breakdown of the parts, such as wings, combustion duct and the fuselage. Animated cut away of the rocket showing the internal parts and their location in unit. Motion pictures of the rocket pointing out the various parts. Men attaching the wing assembly. Animated drawing of the fuel system of ...

  16. Kriegsberichterstattung: Gespräch mit verdienten ungarischen Soldaten

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Berthold? "Conversation with deserving Hungarian soldiers" The label indicates, "Private blasts soviets. Replenishment storage."

  17. Holland; Poland; Churchill in Russia

    Newsreel release date: 03-Dec-44. "Holland" "Poland" "Churchill in Russia"

  18. Oral history interview with Meyer Vesterman

  19. Illich family activities in 1940

    Family activities in the year 1940. Introduced with Maexie Films logo (drawing of Maexie holding a film camera) and some German titles. Fritz Regenstreif walks down a walkway amidst the snow; the entire villa is under snowy cover. Ivan shoveling and the twins, Micha and Sascha, digging in the snow. Ellen Regenstreif (Maexie) struggles to make it through the snow. The boys cross country ski through the forest. Inside the villa, the twins play music and take violin and piano lessons (Blüthner piano) with "Olgica". The boys and their teacher sing songs. On April 21, 1940 (Maexie's birthday), t...

  20. Oral history interview with Arieh Muhlbaum