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  1. Avreml Marwijer | Katariniach

    Yiddish performance of "Avreml Marwijer" (A Side) and "Katariniach" (B Side). Yiddish transcription: "Katarinyakh" ; "Avreml der marvikher" or "Aveiml Marwijer." Elwira Boczkowska with accompaniment of orchestra directed by Simon Tenovsky N° 1331. Songwriter credit for Avreml Marwijer: Mordecai Gebirtig. Published: Buenos Aires, 1950.

  2. American volunteer recruitment on Vermont farms

    Promotional film for Volunteer Land Corp recruitment which follows the experiences of Dick Shaw, a young adult who learns to work on a Vermont farm as part of his contribution to the war effort. Summertime Barnard resident Dorothy Thompson wrote the story. This is a production of the United States Department of Agriculture and State Land Grant Colleges.

  3. Fall of Paris, 1944

    (INV 1457) Hand-held slate reading "SPX-F 8-17 Paris Capt Morse Jensen" 00:06 Shot of bridge (across Seine?), with a person crossing it. Smoke rising behind a building in the BG. 00:12 Large crowds in street cheering, smiling, clapping, and waving at the camera. 00:16 Camera moves left to scan view of the crowds. 00:24 Wider shot of crowds, again moving left, coming back a full circle. 00:44 Soldiers and civilians standing on a military vehicle above crowds. A Red Cross station is across the street. 00:50 Wider shot of soldiers standing on a tank near a metro station. 01:05 French tricolor ...

  4. Oral history interview with Hedda Graab-Evans

  5. Dohány Street Synagogue with Rabbi Jozsef Katona

    Mafirt Kronika 53. The façade of the synagogue on Dohány Street in Budapest, Hungary. Men process through an aisle between rows of men on either side. The faces of men in the synagogue. CU of two men. Rabbi Jozsef Katona performs a ceremony. Men sit and watch, some are in uniform. The rabbi addresses the temple-goers from a pulpit above. CU, the rabbi reveals a star of David on the part of the pulpit above him. The audience. The Parochet (curtain) is raised, revealing the doors of the Ark. The Ark doors are then opened, revealing the menorah and the Torah Scrolls inside. The menorah inside ...

  6. German planes

    Cameraman on wing of German plane setting up shot. Stevens sitting on edge of plane. Traffic in BG. Camouflage hanging on planes. These shots are at an abandoned German airfield. Single engine German plane, also small reconnaissance plane, twin-engine plane as well. Still photographer on ground taking pictures. Stevens pointing to symbols on tail of German plane indicating that pilot had shot down eight British planes and one Russian. VS of planes, including detail. Bill Hamilton, Stevens and Moffat standing in front of plane talking, lighting cigarettes, inspecting damage of riddled German...

  7. Nuremberg courtroom; Palace of Justice; Alan Brooke

    (Paris 346) Nuremberg Trials. US Army officer makes statement to court. Civilian reads statement to court. Correspondents listen to statement; clerks, interpreters record remarks. EXTs of the Palace of Justice where Nuremberg trials are held. MS, British guards in front of entrance. CU, sign on Palace of Justice in English and German: "No Loitering" [Verboten]. Local children peer into gated opening. CU, pass for Raymond D. Addario to enter the Palace of Justice on November 10, 1945. Street scenes. Soldiers' and civilians' passes are checked beofre entering courthouse. 05:35 Field Marshal S...

  8. Oral history interview with Leah Gutman

  9. Oral history interview with Joel Aleksander

  10. Hungarian soldiers fight

    Hungarista Híradó 2. CU of a soldier’s head with a camouflaged helmet slowly emerging from below, peering out through binoculars. A tank fires. The man lowers his binoculars, looks around, and then dives down for cover. Hungarian soldiers load and fire an anti-tank artillery gun. The shot hits a tank in the field, smoke rises up. They reload and fire. The shot hits the ground, missing the two tanks to the right. Brief CU of a tank with leaves camouflaging it. Smoke rises off the field as a tank drives through. Two soldiers with camouflaged helmet fire a different anti-tank gun at an approac...

  11. US military victory over Germany

    Newsreel footage surrounding the events involving the US and Allied defeat of Germany in WWII. Intertitles read as follows: US troops battle toward Rhine in mighty final offensive! Cologne, Germany's fourth city, falls to US First Army! Americans capture vital Remagen Bridge in amazing surprise maneuver. US Engineers bridge Rhine with pontoons! Allied air might shatters vital remains of Nazi communications! British and Canadian forces cross Rhine to capture Ruhr! Vast airborne force lands to widen beachhead! New rocket weapons destroy remaining fortifications to speed progress of Allied Arm...

  12. Pilsen on V-E Day; Grace Moore, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Benny entertain; Soldiers at work in office

    Entering Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on May 8th, 1945 -- V-E Day. Street scenes of civilians in traditional Czech clothing. The opera house. View of the soldiers’ barracks. Sign for the “15th Finance.” Scenes of life in Pilsen and the countryside: people sunbathing, boating, swimming. An enormous crowd gathers to listen to Grace Moore sing. Soldiers play tennis with local civilians. Scenes from a parade. Pilsen castle. Soldiers smoke cigarettes and drink beer, including Murray. Ingrid Bergman and Jack Benny. Soldiers work in an office. Soldiers board a military airplane. Scenes of mountains and ...

  13. Eddie Cantor radio broadcasts

    Excerpts from "The Robinson Newscast" and "Bedtime Story" broadcast by Eddie Cantor on his radio show "It's Time To Smile" (the show was sponsored by a toothpaste manufacturer) broadcast on March 31, 1943. Apart from Cantor, the voices heard belong to Harry Von Zell (track 1) and Edward G. Robinson (track 2). This full broadcast was "dedicated" to Hitler (for details of the full broadcast, refer to www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/variety/eddie-cantor-its-time-to-smile/guest-edward-g-robinson-1943-03-31). Robinson played prominent role in the touring pageant "We Will Never Die," also in 1943 (...

  14. American military at Nordhausen; Eisenhower lands in Frankfurt; soldiers on leave in England

    Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings along road. Pan of liberated camp and environs from a moving vehicle. Dozens of large containers of ammunition stacked side by side in fields, behind a sign: "Tor II." Displaced families pus...

  15. USHMM Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski

    AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski on January 16, 2001 including excerpts from the Museum's Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection of outtakes from the film "Shoah". Clips from Film ID 3134 (RG-60.5006) include: 02:02:32-02:03:50 02:04:20-02:07:36 02:09:13-02:09:49 02:12:32-02:13:02 02:13:48-02:14:59 02:32:45-02:35:11 02:35:30-02:35:47

  16. Kiedy | Oriental Tango

    Circa 1947 recording featuring Polish popular jazz band exiled to Iran, "The Jolly Boys." Performers include Stanislaw Sperber, S. Helishkowski. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group until the war had ended. Although the “Jolly Boys” never made a commercial recording in Poland, the group did record several songs in Tehran. One bandmate, pianist Artur Baigelman (AKA “A. Bay”), one of Henry Baigelman’s many musical siblings, did not ...

  17. Liberation special exhibition "Testimony" monitor

    "Testimony" monitor with interviews exhibited as part of "Liberation 1945" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 9, 1995 to May 8, 1996.

  18. Oral history interview with Barbara Rodbell

  19. Germans building the WWII defensive line; Hitler tours the Siegfried Line

    Reel 2, German laborers working on the Siegfried Line stop for lunch. Concrete ""dragon's teeth"" antitank obstacles, barbed wire entanglements and blockhouses along the Rhine River, an observation tower, and farmers working in a field nearby. A diagram shows the interlocking field of fire from points of the Siegfried Line. German troops march and enter a tunnel into fortifications. Hitler tours the area.

  20. Flight and Rescue special exhibiton monitors

    AV monitors exhibited as part of "Flight and Rescue" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 4, 2000 to October 21, 2001.