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  1. Oral history interview with Michel de Bouard

  2. Family life in Vienna, 1936

    Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. This film is titled "Dreibubenhaus" [The House of the Three Boys] in honor of a then current theatrical presentation in Vienna. CUs, the twin boys don hats and joke for the camera. Sequence of the boys waking up, saying prayers, washing faces, getting dressed, and ready for school. The three Illich boys eat breakfast and exit their home (filmed from mother Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif's room on the top floor of the villa), walking the grand grounds of Villa Regenstreif. The governess "Selli" Frauer escorts the boys onto a tram and ki...

  3. Oral history interview with Dorothy Finger

  4. Landsberg DP camp: UNRRA; Zionist demonstration; rebuilding life

    Transfer of defendant to a trial. Shots of crowd, MPs, UNRRA officials, judges moving/walking through streets of Landsberg DP camp. VAR, UNRRA or military officials walking in streets, entering and exiting a building, talking. Children boarding train, some in scouts uniforms. More views of the UNRRA officials on the street. Parade of scouts marching, rally, flags. Some men in suits. Demonstration of DPs, young crowd. Man speaking with Hebrew banner in BG (seen briefly in RG-60.0088). Flags. 01:09:10 Pan, INT, another demonstration, DP officials grouped on a platform, singing, various men gi...

  5. War destruction in the Netherlands

    EXT, Grand Hotel. Red flag with white cross on it, jeep Toluca and khaki sedan stopped on roadside by ESSO gas station. Toluca with weapons carrier behind drives through a bombed out part of town. Shot of harbor from street, trolley wires overhead. VS of harbor, street corner with building that had been destroyed by bombs. VS of the city, street full of rubble, more bombed out buildings, spire of church in BG. Civilians and two German soldiers walking down street. Pan of part of town that is nearly leveled. Shot of jeep driving past store with sign that reads: "F. Woolworth Company." Army s...

  6. 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...

  7. At sea, ships & landing craft

    Tents in a clearing, France. Stevens, three other men in uniform by train, sign reads: "London (Euston)- Glasgow (Center)." At sea, Stevens, two other men on deck of destroyer, panning shot, cloudy morning, choppy sea. Roughly 50 men looking out to sea. Long panning shot of fleet, barrage balloons overhead. MS, Stevens holds Eyemo camera to eye, ships in BG. CU of Stevens. LS of sea and flashes of firing in distance. LS of ships in choppy sea. Ships' guns firing, large orange puffs of smoke. Pan to landing craft. Passing ships, possibly landing craft.

  8. 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).

  9. Polish Guard Formation, 1947

    Polish guard formations in the street, marching. CUs, soldier with older woman (mother?).

  10. Ship at sea

    Shot of felucca at sea. George Stevens and two others in outboard motorboat. CU of military police badge on someone's sleeve. Old wooden sailing ship. Loading supplies, tires, etc. on dock, people in summer uniforms, apparently North Africans.

  11. Illich family escapes to Florence, 1943

    [no title] The three Illich boys (much older and leaner) overlook the cityscape of Florence, Italy, where the family fled to in 1943. They eat and place flowers on a grave. The boys walk down a street with cyclists behind them. Horses run on a racetrack. An older man (priest) stands in the streets with the Illich boys and other young schoolboys/classmates. CU, another priest with the twins.

  12. US Army kissing French girls; parade

    Stevens and Moffat in crowd of French civilians, French girls talking, Stevens signing autographs. Solow, Stevens and others in front of Scribe Hotel, crowds in streets, blue and white sign: "M.L.N." in window of Scribe. American GI taking picture with speed graphic. Shot of weapons carrier and jeep with camera set on tripod. Hamilton holding and kissing two girls. Shot of several Americans and French girls driving past in jeep. Large numbers of civilians walking past, American jeep "Flash Gordon." Six or seven men crouched behind jeep firing at sniper in window. Stevens puts rifle on shoul...

  13. Russian fashion designer

    Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Women's heels. Singer sewing machine.

  14. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    Introduced with German titles throughout, beginning with "Kamera Regie Schnitt Maexie". Blurry at first. Extreme CUs of the three boys (shot individually). On August 8, 1936, the family loads into a car and drives away with Leithner as the help waves goodbye. They visit the grave of Johanna Regenstreif in Poetzleinsdorf. The car moves along the city streets before the boys exit at the train station, purchase a newspaper, and board the train. Fritz Regenstreif and Leithner shake hands at the railcar door. The boys and their grandfather wave goodbye to Leithner and others on the platform. Maj...

  15. The Sugihara family in Bucharest, Romania, 1942

    8mm film is severely compromised by mold. WS, pan of buildings in the city streets of Bucharest (Patriarchate Hill), pedestrians. Sugihara's official car with a small Japanese flag in FG. Driving along the city street in the car with tall buildings in BG. Toddler boy and mother, Yukiko Sugihara, pick flowers from the garden adjacent to the Japanese diplomat's residence. Sister Setsuko and two siblings join, one on a tricycle. The toddler runs towards the camera along the home's walkway and returns to his mother behind. The children play in the yard, the car is parked in front with the resid...

  16. 700 Years Celebration of Berlin

    Parade of floats. Chimney sweeps. Crowds. Umbrellas. Brandenburg Gate. Children. Berliner Weisse. Old women watch. Some HAS, quick cuts. 01:03:03 "Eröffnung der Wallbergstrasse bei Tegernsee durch Stabschef Lutze" [SA Chief Lutze opens Wallbergstreet near Tegernsee] “Deutsche Arbeit” 01:03:42 Car floats with Nazi themes. One large eagle. "Fest der Pferde." "Pferdezüchter der Bretagne." Horse show. Peasant costumes. 01:05:22 "Verkehrs…" Chemnitz. Traffic signal training. Closeup of traffic signals. Policeman testing cart driver. “Verkehrssünder” [Traffic sinners] 01:07:13 “Slalom im kayak au...

  17. 6 video programs about the Holocaust: Kristallnacht, children, orientation to USHMM Learning Center

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.23a) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23b) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23c) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23d) - The Night of Broken Glass Second floor (2.09e) - Children: After Liberation Second floor - Learning Center Orientation

  18. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  19. Various scenes in Novogrodok, Poland

    EXT, large crowd of men and women, smiling, filing into a building. Title: "The Talmudical" VS, INT of Yeshiva. Boys at desks davening, teacher instructing. Title: "The Metchet" EXT of prayer house. Title: "The Jewish Library" Still of library, MCU books on bookshelves. Title: "House of Tarbuth School" EXT of school, men exiting. Title: "Jewish Trade School" EXT of trade school. INT of boys woodworking, students eating, girls working on sewing machines. EXT, Group of men posing for the camera, some are smoking cigarettes, some are speaking to each other and to cameraman, smiling, all are dr...

  20. Seizure of the S. S. Dromit cargo

    Consists of letters and other documents (some originals and some photocopies) relating to the seizure of foodstuffs and Jewish possessions from the S. S. Dromit in 1949. Included among the documents is a German-language "statement of witness" submitted to the British Civil Police Unit in November 1949 by Josef Rosensaft.