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  1. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  2. Queen Mary ship at NY harbor

    Agfa logo. EXT ES of Manhattan, panning right. Camera appears to be on a boat, possibly an ocean liner. EXT shot of the ship’s smokestacks, followed by a downward panning shot of an open hatch on the ship. EXT shot of the ship’s sun deck, followed by another EXT right panning shot of the city. The boat is docked on the west side of Manhattan (the Palisades and the Hudson can clearly be seen), as the shot travels past several other docked ships until stopping when it faces the city. VS EXT shot of the ship’s sun deck, only this time there are people approaching the camera; at least one of th...

  3. 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.

  4. Peasants on break and at work farming in a mountain village

    In the Caucusus, male villagers on shore on work break, drinking, mountains and town buildings in BG. Women on shore as well, looking into camera. Man with bull. Farming. Quick shot of a village. Boy posing on horse that operates farm equipment seen earlier in this story.

  5. Oral history interview with Raoul Hilberg

  6. Speech about Christian merchants in Hungary, 1942

    Magyar Híradó 944. An intertitle reads “KERESZTÉNY KERESKEDELEM. M.F.I- HORVÁTH TÖRÖK SARDI.” A grand chandelier with many lights hangs from the ceiling. There is a split-color flag with the symbol of a bird in flight holding a seal that says “BAROSS SZOVETSEG” with a sun motif. A table of seated men and one woman, a denser crowd of seated men on the level behind them, and young boys in uniform in front. In the middle, the President of the Association for Christian Merchants addresses the audience. WS of the audience members. Men and women sit separately. Flags in the BG. The men at the fro...

  7. German soldiers advance into Yugoslavia; sports day

    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 13. German soldiers in high spirits, at open door of freight train. Loading up on train at Schelklingen; troops in cattle trucks play accordion and portable gramophone with 78 rpm reco...

  8. Testimony film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

    2.15 Testimony (with and without subtitles) Testimony film of interviews with Holocaust survivors shown on the second floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". Includes oral histories with the following witnesses: Frank Bleichman Sam Goldberg Emanuel Tanay Tina Strobos Chudson (Tineke Buchter) Agnes Adachi Helen Waterford Norbert Wollheim Leo Bretholz Paulette Fink Stefa Kupfer (Sarah M. Kupfer) Abe Malnik Cecilie Klein-Pollak Agi Rubin (Agate Rubin) Lilly Malnik Gerda Weissman Klein Ruth Webber Bella Tovey Bart Stern Shony Braun (Al...

  9. Americans meet Russians

    Sign reads: "Nothing in hell can stop the Timber Wolf Division" at Gen. Terry Allen's headquarters at Torgau. He was the leader of the Timber Wolf Division. Shot of troops with American flag and red flag on a jeep and whole series of jeeps driving through town. It is a meeting of Russian and American officers. American two-star General Terry Allen walks up and salutes a Russian officer. They all turn in a three shot and salute a new arrival as the band plays. Sequence of shots of officers listening to band music. American general appears to be pinning a medal on a Russian general. They shak...

  10. Excerpts from private film collections of liberating Nazi concentration camps and life in DP camps

    Films by American soldiers who first entered Nazi prison camps in the spring of 1945, and survivors rebuilding lives in DP camps. (19:49 minutes) Part Three of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today-- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from ove...

  11. Life in German DP camp

    Tent city and displaced persons in Germany. Families, children idling near tents (Red Cross and JDC). UNRRA jeeps/trucks. DPs milling about with luggage. Pan, crowd of DPs. Man standing on chair, above crowd view of DPs arriving at camp with luggage. DPs with luggage getting onto truck. CUs, women, children, baby sleeping. Pan feet (mostly barefoot). Standing in line for food with buckets. Eating. Distributing food/soup. Boy getting water from a military jeep. Woman with baby, woman knitting, laundry. DPs idling. CU tents. Man dragging child in cardboard box. Man reading newspaper in Landsb...

  12. Oral history interview with David Cohen

  13. Kriegsberichterstattung: Gespenster bei Nacht

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Berthold. "Ghosts at Night"

  14. Belsen: corpses

    CUs of female corpses (bodies and faces), bloody. Mangled pile of bodies. (GRAPHIC FOOTAGE)

  15. Anti-US Propaganda Broadcast from Berlin

    April 8, 1943 broadcast by Robert Henry Best, an American journalist who issued anti-US propaganda broadcasts from Berlin.

  16. 257th German Infantry in Galicia region

    Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. Quick, HAS, two Germans sit at a table. Peasant women with headscarves pose for the camera in a hilly landscape. Two girls walk past a large group of soldiers from the 257 Infantry. The men gather on a hillside. Views of Poles in the crowded marketplace. Jewish men and women wearing white armbands walk around the district, shop doors and windows display the Star of David in blue paint. An old man smokes and wanders by a destroyed building. The camera follows a ...

  17. Bookburning special exhibition monitor 1

    AV monitor 1 (keystone) exhibited as part of "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 30, 2003 to October 13, 2003.

  18. US soldiers in uniform

    Men in uniforms with Eisenhower jackets, ties and SHAEF insignias, working with 35mm Mitchell camera. One officer is Capt. William C. Mellor. Man in FG with moustache is a Major. Young, two-star general with khaki shirt and tie greets the other two officers. CU of general (notes indicate that the general may be Gen. Gavin or Gen. Terry Allen). The general appears to be the same man who arrived in the black airplane in the previous story (RG-60.2704).

  19. Farming

    Excerpt of "Founding a New Life: A Story of Rehabilitation." Tractors. "Harvesting the Fruits of Their Labor" Working in fruit trees. Sorting vegetables/potatoes. Wheat. Harvesting melons. Boys eating melons.

  20. Czech family life and holidays in prewar Europe

    Popeye cartoon (brief). 00:15 A Czech Jewish family -- Karel Hartmann, his wife Edita, and their two sons Jan and Jiri (later George) -- vacations. "1935 Woerthersee" Austria, swimming in the lake. The boys jump off a diving board into the water and swim and clown around with their father. Jiri and Jan walk together and with their mother down a lane. A castle (?) is visible in the distance. In the town, the boys pose with their father in front of a fountain. One of the boys takes pictures with a camera around his neck. The family stands on a dock in front of a seaplane. 03:33 Feeding pigeon...