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  1. Hungarian conscripts forced to perform labor in Budapest, 1944

    Hungarista Híradó 2. A long row of forced laborers in a field use pick-axes to dig away at the earth. Men in a deep trench dig, throwing the dirt up above, where other men shovel it away. Brief shot of two men in uniform surveying the activity. One looks through binoculars. The laboring men continue to hack away at the earth, with shovels and pick-axes. They sit by tables and pots, prepping food. CU of a bowl of onions and peppers. Men cut away at onions over a bowl and stir soup in large pots in the ground. A man serves others waiting in line for the soup. The Jewish forced laborers lounge...

  2. Belsen: corpses

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

  3. Visit of David Teitelbaum to Wielopole Skrzynskie

    David Teitelbaum visits his family in his birthplace of Wielopole Skrzynskie, Poland. The film shows members of the Teitelbaum, Rappaport and Sartoria families, their neighbors, and acquaintances. Individuals appearing in the film include: Oizer Teitelbaum and his wife Leah née Blattberg; the filmmaker David Teitelbaum and Chiel Teitelbaum; Rachel Sartoria née Teitelbaum and her husband Moshe; Sheindel Rappaport née Teitelbaum and her husband Moshe Aaron and their children, Simcha, Chiel, Shlomo, Channa, Chaim, and Etla; Juda Redel and his wife Eidel; and Nathan Lipschitz. Camera rotates, C...

  4. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Zabin Collection - Omaha Beach in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2612, 01:04:49 to 01:12:45) Zabin Collection - Liberation of Dachau; medical unit in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2460, 01:00:00 to 01:09:30)

  5. 1 video program about the Holocaust: Eichmann trial

    Audiovisual monitor shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second flor (2.08d) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial

  6. Visiting Polish family, Vienna, Paris, and Holland

    Title card: “With the Faust Family Pabjanice April 1933.” In Pabianice, Poland, three children play with a shovel and bucket in the sand. Three women in fur coats sit closely together on a bench. The Faust family walks down a residential street and poses for the camera. The elder is Herman Faust, a textile manufacturer whose home and business were located in either Pabjanice or Czestochowa (many family members perished during the Holocaust). Lovely portraits of the family. The children make faces and are scolded. The group continues to pose in various spots and groupings for the camera, som...

  7. Oral history interview with Harry Burger

  8. JDC aids DPs

    The clip begins, with a JDC spokesperson speaking at a podium: "...of the 80,000 Jews who have survived in Poland today, at least 70,000 require assistance." Then, voice over narration begins with music in the background and montage of shots described below: "...though the number is tragically small the need is greater than ever, for them JDC alone halts the hand of death..." DPs eating (including children). Medical exam - children. DPs receive clothing from JDC. Orphans from Buchenwald enroute to Marseilles, France and then on to Palestine: Children board train - US army personnel look on....

  9. Personal papers of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft relating to displaced persons activities and Bergen-Belsen

    Includes information about the emigration of Jewish orphans to Israel, the administration of the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp by the British Army, the 1946 Vaad Leumi Session in Israel concerning Jewish refugees of the Holocaust, food rationing in the Hohne displaced persons camp, military activities of the Haganah in Israel circa 1946, the April 1948 protest by Bergen-Belsen displaced persons against world indifference toward their situation, and the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft in relation to the Central Jewish Committee of the British Zone and the emigration of Jewi...

  10. Jewish children at Whittingehame Farm School, 1939

    Color scenes of Whittingehame Farm School filmed by an unnamed teacher at the school. Between 1939 and 1941 Viscount Traprain (Robert Balfour, nephew of Lord Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration) sheltered 160 Jewish children from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia as part of the Kinderstransport program. The children lived in the Whittingehame mansion and learned Hebrew and agriculture subjects that would be useful in Palestine, where they were intended to settle after the war. When the school closed in 1941 most of the children were at least 17 and remained in the UK. Some...

  11. US Army liberates Paris

    Jeeps coming across pontoon bridge towards camera. VS of numerous French tanks and other vehicles coming around curve of cobblestone road. Underlit shot of Leicester Hemingway in hotel room. Stevens and officer, possibly British, walking down French street, enter restaurant. Two-part sign reads: "Route N10 Versailles 32, Paris 52." Top of sign: "Seine-et-oise" right and "Route N306 Cernay La Ville 12, Chevreuse 19." Pan of jeeps, civilians, and soldiers in street. Two military men with red caps. Shot of Stevens smoking pipe with several other officers, including a heavy set older man. Ivan ...

  12. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr, Regina Longo, Russ Suniewick, and Sam Bryan for the Orphan 5 Film Symposium at the University of South Carolina in March 2006.

  13. Dutch civilians; ferry boats

    Sign reads: "Monnikendam 7.2, Amsterdam 21." Dutchman in wooden shoes and black bloused pants walks toward camera. Two young Dutch girls in aprons pose for camera. Other Dutch civilians in native costumes are photographed sitting at side of street. Men in black cloaks and black caps. Jeep Toluca pulling weapons carrier on green country road. Jeep on what appears to be a ferry boat, sign reads: "Rikswaterstat." DC3 flies over. VS of Red Cross vehicles on a ferry boat, bombed out bridge in BG. VS of bridge from ferry boat.

  14. Oral history interview with Ruth Gabrielle Silten

  15. Tourists visit Russian city; skylines

    Mostly male tourists visiting city, pan up ornate building (Kiev?). View of riverside. City skyline at dusk. More different shots of the skyline (Moscow?).

  16. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Russell Collection - Postwar destruction of Germany and liberation of Dachau in b/w (USHMM Film ID 2856, 01:06:39 to 01:20:16)

  17. Oral history interview with Joseph Klein

  18. Illich family tours Italy, 1937

    No title card, but includes German intertitles. Film can says "Bilder aus Italien (1937)". The Illich family visits Rome (there are no shots of family members in the entire reel). Pan of the cityscape, the Coliseum, and other ruins, statues, fountains, buildings. Includes brief views of Italians, street scenes, and other spectators. The family then tours Perugia, Assisi, and Venice. Gondola ride, populated narrow city streets. Waves crash along the shore. 04:53:52 (color) Sightseeing in Venice, including wonderful scenes of the famous architecture, people, and the harbor.

  19. USHMM compilation for AMIA Screening Night 2002

    Compilation of Museum's archival footage screened at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Boston, MA in 2002. The film was presented by Raye Farr and shows segments from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including the Greenland expedition [Zabin Collection] and Goering footage [Bechtler Collection].

  20. Bastille Day parade; World's Fair; touring Paris

    HAS of the Bastille Day parade on July 14, 1937 in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower and Trocadero fountains. Edita Hartmann poses in front of the Eiffel Tower. 1937 World’s Fair, including the German, Romanian, and USSR pavilions. Crowds at the fair followed by more tourist sites in Paris. Jiri and Jan play tennis against their father, launch a kayak. A few seconds of the Popeye cartoon that begins Film ID 4330.