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  1. Primary School no 2 in Skarżysko-Kamienna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 2931)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  2. Primary School no 4 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Szkoła Podstawowa nr 4 w Ostrowcu Świętorzyskim (Sygn. 2908)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  3. Primary School no 5 in Wierzbnik Szkoła Podstawowa nr 5 w Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2748)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  4. Primary School in Wierzbnik Szkoła Podstawowa w Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2749)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  5. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  6. Zeilsheim DP Camp (color)

    Color film of Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp taken by Jewish survivor Albin H. White [under the false identity Albin Ostrowski] around June 1947, including shots of the assembly center, an office, outdoor performances, children, the monument to murdered Jews, soccer, school, and machine shops. Opening pan over the countryside, street scene with homes, residential area. Sign: “Zeilsheim/Assembly Center/UNRRA Team 1022” with two stars of David. “Achtung" [announcement] poster underneath dated 25 June 1947. Woman and child walking near to an entrance: “UNRRA TEAM…[1022]” Street scenes in wha...

  7. Lourié & Co. factory in Vienna; Birthday celebration

    The Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in the year 1929. "Ein Familienfilm aus dem Jahre 1929 Vienna, Part 1" "Hergestellt durch: Hans Brueckner Wien I. Operngassse 2." "Die Holzbearbeitungsfabrik LOURIE & CO. in Wien X." Lourié & Co. was founded in 1899 by Leopold Lourié. Pan of factory in the industrial neighborhood, tour of exterior, factory operations with businessmen. 01:07:56 The Lourié family celebrates the seventieth birthday of Leopold in the Dornbach neighborhood of Vienna. Garden party. Titles in German: 01:01:02 “Gegrundet 1899 Leopold Lourie...

  8. Czech Jewish families before the Holocaust; parade in Prague

    Title card: “Rodina 1937” Steffi Guttmann and her daughters Zuzana (Suzi) and Sylvie get into a car in Prague. Shaky tracking shot in the city, tram, shops. Simon Guttmann strolls with daughters Suzi and Sylvie by the banks of the river. Other family and friends join, pose for the camera by the river. Mahrer and Guttmann children run in a park, castle in BG, joking around for the camera. Older man, Baruch Guttmann, cantor of the Pincas Synagogue, and Jerome Mahrer get out of the car, CUs with another man. The family again poses and walks with linked arms in a park, various views. CU their d...

  9. Elbe river crossing; Woebbelin after liberation; POW camp

    Field camp of German anti-aircraft soldiers. Title card: “Forced labor camp of Poles, Russians and French" Low brick buildings of unidentified forced labor camp. Men, women and children dressed in civilian clothes, daily activities. Title card: “Just married this morning! I just missed it. Romance blossoms under any conditions it seems”. Social gathering in town center. Title card: “The Germany of the future…I hope!” People tilling soil on farm with cow pulling plow. “Note primitive wood plow” Walking along road - soldiers in uniform along with women and men in civilian clothes, all smiling...

  10. Belarus, 1934

    Lourie family visits Pinsk and Deniskovichi, Belarus in August 1934. Outdoor market. Crowds walk and stand in the market. Three women with bundles on their backs walking in ankle-high water. Horse-drawn carts in the water. Men and women in boats/raft. Scenery and people on boats filmed from a moving boat. Car drives through shallow water and stops. People are helped onto the shore, men push the car in the water. Three men and one woman stand and talk.

  11. U.S. 8th Infantry in the Rhineland

    Title card: "Banen Productions" "8th Infantry Division: Normandy. Northern France. Rhineland. Central Europe." Swastika flag. American soldiers in the Rhineland, smoke in field. Damaged cathedral in Cologne. Ruins. "Cologne air field" Soldiers board U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport plane. Title card: "Crossing the Rhine! surely Jerry won't hold out long now!" American military vehicles cross the Rhine River in March 1945. Traveling in trucks on roads, passing abandoned tanks. Rubble in villages. Road sign for Altenkirchen. 01:07:16 Medics loading wounded military into ambulance "USA 72544...

  12. Prewar Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland

    Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.

  13. Visiting family in Pinsk, 1934

    The Lourié family visits relatives in Pinsk, Belarus in August 1934, including shots of the family's plywood factory in Pinsk. Woman looks at large plaques written in Hebrew, outdoors. Two pre-teen girls climb over large logs, walk out of a building and look at another building. Pan of the town of Pinsk and the family factory. Shoreline filmed from a moving boat, and men in canoes. On shore, one of the girls and a woman walk over as men bring large logs onto the shore. 5:02 Three men talk, one in a suit. Lourie plywood factory process: large logs, bark removed from smaller logs by two men w...

  14. War damage; Himmler's greenhouse; Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim sequence. Assembly center entrance sign. EXTs. Camp life, crowd of DPs. DP policeman. DPs get into car leaving for Palestine via Itay. Hand-made sign on building: "We Want to Go! We Have to Go...

  15. Jews in Budapest during the German occupation, Autumn 1944

    A film by József Herczog. As an amateur filmmaker, Herczog filmed the streets of Budapest during the German occupation of Hungary in autumn 1944 and captured a record of his salon business, the dedication of the bomb shelter in cellar of the “yellow star house” where he lived and over 50% of the tenants were Jewish, Hungarian soldiers, an evacuation, and bomb damage. Title card: “Filmezte es osszeallitotta: Herczog Jozsef fodraszmester” Title card: drawing of Danube and Parliament with handwritten “BUDAPEST”. Herczog's salon at Thököly street 22 (Hernád street) in Budapest. Baross Square. S...

  16. Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in 1929

    Outtakes (3 reels) of the Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in 1929.

  17. Jewish wedding in Sofia

    The Jewish wedding of Aharon Mevorach and Lutzy Pincas in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935 (probably in May). The couple arrives at the Central Synagogue of Sofia, poses, and greets guests. They move toward the exit of the synagogue where a carriage waits to transport the newly married couple to their home. Aharon's brother, Dr. Leon Mevorach, filmed the event. Family members shown include: Baruch and Dudah Mevorach; Dr. Daniel Pincas and Dora Pincas (nee Mevorach); Stefie (wife of Dr. Leon Mevorach who films the wedding) and their son Baruch (called Bubie), with a white beret; Baron Mevorah, the yo...

  18. Tenth Sokol Congress 1938; Suzi's fourteenth birthday

    Kodak Safety Film logo. Continuation from RG-60.7180 (no leading title card) with scenes of the 10th Sokol Congress in Prague. Athletic meet and calisthenic performance in a gigantic stadium. Simon Guttmann and family attend the big event, seated in the stadium at 01:18:47. Performance and spectators. 01:22:16 Title card: “Středoškolské hry 1938” More stadium demonstrators and coordinated exercises. Czechoslovak flags line the stadium. 01:25:17 Guttmann family in the stands. Airplanes. Spectators clap and wave flags. 01:26:36 Title card: “Sokolský průvod 1938” Procession in Prague city stre...

  19. Lourié family life in 1934

    Title: "5 Jahre Spaeter". Lourié family life in Vienna in 1934. Automobile. 01:01:27 "In der Zwengalle” Lourié’s home address #17, film pans residential neighborhood from rooftop perspective, Leopold Lourié and wife host guests. Family scenes.

  20. Jewish family in prewar Budapest

    The Nash family in Budapest in 1932.