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  1. Private film by Hiram Bingham from the Feuchtwanger papers

    Short color film by U.S. Vice Consul Hiram Bingham, Jr. in France. Includes Sanary-sur-Mer, the concentration camp at Sanary, the U.S. consular office at Château Pastré, Lion Feuchtwanger and Golo Mann in the garden at Bingham's residence in Marseille, and gulls over Mediterranean.

  2. War Crimes Trial: Dostler testifies

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Continuation of Dostler's testimony in which accuses the next higher in command of issuing the orders to shoot fifteen American soldiers.

  3. Horse show

    “Filmováno komorou Ciné Kodak OSM Na Panchro-Filmu Ciné Kodak OSM” A group of men on horseback entering a riding rink. 5 men sitting on a balcony, two of them are wearing Czechoslovak military uniforms, and while the person to the left of them seems to be a major politician (possibly president Benes?). Another group of horseback riders enter the rink, with two white horses leading. Two white horses are also in the rear of the group, and they in turn are followed by six men on what appear to be miniature cars. The horseback riders and the tractor riders line up in the center of the rink. The...

  4. Trip to Norway and Denmark on steamer

    Reel 8 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). B/W. German troops, trombone in FG. Nazi party leaders review German troops. Pinning medals onto uniforms. CU, medal featuring crown and Iron Cross. German boards plane, CQ, propellers. COLOR. Rugged scenery from ship, seagulls. This is likely the steamer (“Milwaukee”) that Eva Braun and her companions traveled on during a trip to Norway and Denmark. b/w - Fishing boat (short). Color - Scenes on and from deck of ship. Water surging from bow. “Hammerfest 1789” flag affixed to vehicle in the village of Hammerfest, Norw...

  5. US Army in Italy, Germany, and France

    TASK FORCE 45 IV Corps Sector, Fifth Army Italy 12 Feb 1945 (M-1273) VS, Maj Gen Willis D Crittenberger, CG, IV Corps, awards decorations and then formally disbands Task Force 45. Pan, troops in formation. FRONT LINE ROAD JAM Fifth Army, Italy 13 Feb 45 (0-1091) Seq: road grader stuck in ditch beside mountain road, causes traffic tie-up. Soldiers of A Co, 126th Engrs, 10th Mountain Div, pull grader out of ditch with bulldozer. GENERAL GEORGE C MARSHALL VISITS 92 DIV Fifth Army, Italy 14 Feb 1945 (0-1091) Short scene, Gen Marshall and official party arrive at 92d Mule Pack Bn. CUs, Gen speak...

  6. African-American troops in World War II

    "American Negro Troops, no locations or captions, Aug 1944"

  7. Refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY

    16mm film. Title card: "The National Refugee Service: A Constituent Agency of the United Jewish Appeal presents" Title card: "Over the Rainbow Bridge" Title card: "William S. Gailmor Narrator" Relates the story of one thousand Jewish refugees who were brought to the United States under special orders from President Roosevelt in 1944. Once in America, they were transported to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. At the fort, the refugees led somewhat peaceful lives but were unable to travel beyond its boundaries. They remained in the shelter for about a year and a ...

  8. Business travel in Mindanao

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

  9. Dachau camp, postwar

    Film footage of unknown provenance documenting a tour of cities and towns in Poland, Germany, and Austria during the 1960s. Includes approximately 2 minutes of footage showing the exterior of Dachau concentration camp and memorial from 20:30 to 22:12.

  10. Czech gymnast festival in Prague, 1938

    Blurry iris in on a drawn picture of a large castle (possibly Prague Castle) 01:00:20:05 Title: “Tenth Sokol Congress Praha 1938.” Blurry shot of a poster, featuring three muscular men in various poses in front of the Czechslovak flag, text under them says “X Slet Všesokolsky”. English translation is spliced into the title: “Tenth Sokol Congress” Title: “The American Delegation Arrives.” Two stills: the first of four men and a woman walking towards a camera, with two of whom are holding an American flag, and the second, of two people, one a man with an army beret, and the other a woman in a...

  11. 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...

  12. Facsimile of the Israeli Declaration of Independence

    Facsimile of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The facsimile was reproduced, with the State of Israel’s permission, from the original document, which is housed at the Israel State Archives in a custom-designed, silver storage case. The Declaration was proclaimed by the Va’ad Leumi (Jewish National Council or Jewish People’s Council) and was delivered by Zionist statesman David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) on May 14, 1948, at the Tel Aviv Museum in Mandatory Palestine. The Coun...

  13. Americans visit Europe in 1938

    Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, Berne, Zurich, Como, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples, Venice, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Mittenwald, Nuremberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Kolberg, London, and Bath. 2:07 Title- FRANCE and...

  14. Laemmle family visits St Moritz; Carnival; skiing

    MS Laemmle family on vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Shots include Kurt's parents, Siegfried and Alice Laemmle; Kurt and Alyse; and Kurt's brother, Max, and his wife, Bobby, and young son, Robert. They gather on a snowy mountain wearing skis. VS of the group, some don costumes, including one with a comically large moustache, a couple in wedding dress, and two people as a horse (probably during Carnival in the first week of March). VAR CUs of the family on holiday in St. Moritz. Shifts to black and white, skiing, Olympic Ice Rink.

  15. Laemmle family in Stuttgart; returning to New York

    Laemmle family gathers on the balcony of their apartment in Stuttgart, which the family was forced to handover to the Nazis a few months after this film was recorded. Including shots of the grandmother of Kurt, Hermine, and Alyse. Alyse leans in to shake hands with Hermine, and kiss her. Kurt stands between the two of them. Kurt's parents, Siegfried and Alice talk to each other. The family, including Kurt's brother, Max, and his wife, Bobbie, and young son, Robert, stand behind Hermine, smiling at the camera. From left to right: Siegfried, Kurt, Hermine, Alyse, and Alice. Pan left and right...

  16. London

    Pan, front of soot covered building, a couple walks by, camera pans up. 01:00:41:05 Large crowd gathered in front of building, man walks in front of the camera, pan up. 01:01:26:06 Pan, “The Old Curiosity Shop. Charles Dickens” (13-14 Portsmouth Street, Holborn, London), groups of people in front, van passes by, “T.H. Bull & Sons Ltd.” 01:01:51:09 Pan, tudor style building. 01:02:04:15 Pan, ornate building. 01:02:47:08 Pan, private garden. 01:03:24:20 Pan, Same ornate building.

  17. Travel on the Aramis SS ship to Manila

    Walter Rauscher left for Manila from Marseille, France on February 3, 1939 aboard the Aramis SS ship. Street scene in Marseille under the Porte d'Aix Arc de Triomphe. Street scenes. Pan of the Cathedrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Marseille. Man reads the newspaper on a balcony overlooking the harbor and shipyard. Large boats on the water. People walk on the deck of the Aramis SS boat. (3:57) A young child faces the camera. People stand on the deck watching. Man dressed in a suit walks toward the camera smiling. (4:41) Walter Rauscher, the cameraman, walks towards the camera. (5:22) CUs of Wal...

  18. RAF; steel production; bombed railways in Belgium; troops weather storms

    Combat Bulletin No. 30. Reel 1, E.T.O Activities in European Theatre of Operations "R.A.F. Sinks “Tirpitz”" "Front Line Steel Production" "Bombed Belgium Rail Networks" "Allied Armies Face Rain and Snow"

  19. Prewar Jewish family in Ošelín, Czechoslovakia

    Walter with his sister Irma Rauscher Eisner and their mother Clementine Schnurmacher walk towards the camera in Ošelín around 1937-1938. Walter opens a car door with Czechoslovak license plate. Irma’s husband, Leo Eisner, embraces her. Headstone for Oskar Rauscher in the Jewish cemetery in Stříbro [Mies]: “Oskar Rauscher Aus Oschelin” with the dates March 17, 1887 to June 4, 1936. Walter eats kumquat from tree. Irma with nurse holding baby girl, Hana Miriam Eisner (later Hanna Eaton, born March 23, 1937). Several family members across generations hold baby Hanna and smile at the camera in t...

  20. Fiction film about a German immigrant becoming a US citizen

    16mm film "This is America" Part of a series produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. in the 1940s. This episode, "New Americans," which dates from around the late 1940s, focuses on a German immigrant (or refugee) and his quest to become a United States citizen. Depicted are his arrival in the city via Ellis Island, meetings with immigration officials, and attempts to find housing and a job. He is led to the National Refugee Service where he finds friendly assistance. He perseveres and is eventually sworn in as a United States citizen.