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  1. ORT vocational schools

    A film about the ORT vocational schools in the US Zone of Germany. Introduction by Jacob Oleiski, US zone director of ORT, including English subtitles. VAR scenes of survivors in vocational training programs. Men and women working on machinery, furniture making, sewing, women's clothing, etc. in Landsberg, Germany. 22:09:31 Max (Mordchai) Rubin, a chemistry teacher at ORT Munich, is visible, along with his student Adi Rubin (Ribon) at 22:09:37. ORT UNRRA Vocation School sign. MCU young men entering building. Oleiski speaking again, with English subtitles.

  2. Prewar life in an Austrian village and tourist views of Prague

    Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, men and boys wear top hats and lederhosen or breeches, on the occasion of a Catholic holiday(?). Shop signs advertise film equipment/stock - Agfa and Perutz. 01:59 German flag with a swasti...

  3. GIs; battered corpses; Dachau camp victims

    Campfire burning. Hamilton, Stevens and others on ground cooking, drinking coffee. Change of scene, jeep Toluca covered with snow. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca shakes hands with crewcut American (Major Dick Cahoot). CUs, they are smoking, dressed in winter parkas (handwritten annotation to LoC cataloger's notes indicates that this footage was shot in Belgium). At Dachau, by a railroad track, empty boxcars, some snow on ground. Frozen corpse lying in coal beside track. Gruesome CU of snow covered huddled corpse by boxcar. Several gruesome shots of battered corpses of German SS. Frozen bod...

  4. Coal mining; Warsaw street scenes-daily life

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. Factory, church and mining sequences. Warsaw shots begin at 01:11:04:00. Trams. POV from tram to streets. People window shopping at various shops. Shop fronts. Kiosk with Charlie Chaplin poster. Street scenes, traffic, pedestrians. Gliders. LS town square. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. Trams, tram sign, INT shots of people in tram. LS to MS to MCU- policeman directs traffic, acknowledging the camera's presence, looking out of the corner of his eye. Street scenes, buses, automobiles, bicycles, horse drawn carts, pas...

  5. Nuremberg Trial interpreters; closing speech at Malmedy Trial

    Munich 225 - War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany July 1946. Individual CUs of interpreters speaking into microphones. 03:04 Munich 294 - Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany July 11, 1946. Lt. Col Burton J Ellis continuing his closing speech to the court.

  6. German newsreel excerpts: German munitions trains; American POWs; V-1 bombs

    Reel 2, Part 1, camouflaged German munitions trains move up near Caen after the Normandy invasion. German antiaircraft fires at Allied planes over Caen. Devastation in the city. German troops assist civilians. Tanks, motorcycles, infantry, and artillery move up. Antitank guns cripple U.S. Sherman tanks. U.S. POWs are marched to the rear. Part 2, Hamburg, Germany, in flames after an Allied air raid. Searchers probe into debris; dead and wounded are removed. Corpses are laid out in a huge hall. V-1 bombs are launched.

  7. Festival in Bayreuth; House of German Art in Munich

    “Ufa Schmalfilm Magazin” / UFA film logo / “Nr. 43” “Beute im Werte von hunderten von Millionen Mark.” Rows and rows of small carts in a field, some covered. A pile of soldiers helmets. Aerial view of a city. Smokestacks. Nazi officers walk alongside piles of weapon parts. INT weaponry facility. Men pour water from a metal cylinder. Steel rods. Neatly stacked rows of German bombs. 01:01:43 Intertitle, “Friedliche Leben in Deutschland.” Bayreuth Festspielhaus. People walk under banners that read, “Herzlich Willkommen in Bayreuth,” and “Suheee! Deutschland bist Du!” Nazi flags. More people wa...

  8. Oral history interview with Markus Safirstein

  9. Belsen: Medics moving typhus patients

    Medics loading trucks with people suffering from typhus. Red Cross truck. Women walking in a forest.

  10. Jews perform forced labor on a farm

    Magyar Híradó 857. Intertitle: “ARATNAK A MUNKASZOLGA’LATOSOK. A közérdekü munkaszolgálat aratószázadokkal segít a kis-birtokosoknak és az uradal-maknak. M.F.I.-ZSABKA.” A man uses a tool to hammer at the edge of his wooden scythe. Two men use wooden tools to smooth the long blade of the scythe. In the field, six laborers use their scythes to cut away at rye, while an officer stands in the background on the left, watching. More of the men using their scythes to cut the rye. Another laborer drives through the field on a mechanical reaper. CU of the machine. It spits out bundles of rye (sheav...

  11. Oral history interview with Leah Gutman

  12. 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 ...

  13. 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.

  14. Sen. Hiram Johnson opposes third term for President Roosevelt

    Seated at a desk filled with papers, Senator Hiram Johnson speaks into a microphone for the newsreel camera. He opposes a third term for FDR and supports Republican Wendell Wilkie. Cuts from Johnson's CU, Johnson coughs and says, "It makes no difference to me whether this chance of election may have one sort or another. It makes a vast difference that I shall preserve that which has been most dear to me in my life -- my independence and my country's will." Cut. "I emphasize, this an American crisis alone, and for that reason, we must salvage ourselves as Americans in order that our coveted ...

  15. Patton and other US Army officers; V-E day

    US Army and Lowell Thomas in Europe after liberation. Shot by Dick Ham, US Army Signal Corps. Gen. George Patton, a Lieutenant and others come out of Patton's headquarters in Hershfeld, Germany. CUs, Patton and the Major General. This was the first day Patton put on his four stars. Harsh, Barnes, Combs, Gen. Patton, and Howe. CU Patton talking to correspondents. Patton and the Major General walking towards camera, going into HQ. Command car leaving HQ gate with Hershfeld in BG, returning to Eschwege. 01:00:55 CU, sign of Eschwege. According to Lowell Thomas, the town was filled with civilia...

  16. 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.

  17. Destroyed town in France; dead German soldiers; campsite

    Jeep coming through severely bombed town. Stevens gets out. Camera on jeep. Good coverage and panning shot of a number of vehicles in front of small building called "Hotel D'Lion." Sign reads: "Carantilly 4 kms, Cerisy-La Salle 10 kms." Trucks with soldiers passing through town (very well shot). Stevens and Sergeant Hamilton inspecting a gun casing, walking through rubble of large bombed out building, church steeple still visible. Stevens looking at stretcher containing what is apparently a dead German soldier. CU of dead German soldier. VS of dead German soldiers, including CUs. Tracking s...

  19. Trims of Russian scenes: children; school; peasants; roller-skating; farming

    TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Russia. Blond children hanging on railing/fence, one lands a parachute in the field. 01:04:21 INT, school classroom, VAR MSs children at desks, writing in notebooks. 01:04:48 INT, restaurant on boat. 01:04:59 LS, farm with cows. Two women with baby in village. Crowd, peasants milling about. CUs, man drinking from cup. 01:05:21 CU, harness on woman. In city, spectators looking through a fence (seen from behind). Women roller-skating. Crowd. Barn with windmill. Farmer, cows, milkcans. 01:05:40 Woman hoeing in bathing suits. Woma...

  20. Jewish orphans leave Prague for England after WWII

    Scenes showing a group of Jewish orphans leaving Prague for England under a British Home Office plan to transport one thousand orphaned concentration camp survivors to recuperate in Britain before their resettlement. This footage shows some of the 300 children, mostly boys, who were liberated from Theresienstadt and flown from Prague to England on August 14, 1945. They were initially settled at a hostel in Windermere where they received medical care. Boys board a Stirling aircraft on a grassy field at the Ruzyne airfield in Prague. One boy boards carrying a flag. Interior shots of the boys ...