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  1. Rebuilding Poland

    LS, building, pedestrians in FG, church spires, scaffolding.

  2. Fond du Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions (Police Générale)

    Contains various documents of the Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions including alphabetical name lists of various categories of French Jewish refugees, foreign Jewish, and non-Jewish refugees, political refugees, and Spanish, Polish, Italian, etc. refugees; administrative and other documents concerning French internment camps at Nîmes, Garrigues, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, L'Ardoise, Auch, and others; instructions and regulations regarding refugees in labor groups and refugees in internment camps.

  3. Schifferes family papers

    The Schifferes family papers consist of correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and subject files documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese, and Stephan Schifferes in Austria, Germany, England, and the United States and property belonging to Stephan Schifferes’ relatives, the Siebenschein family, in Vienna. Bertha Schifferes materials consist of correspondence with relatives, friends, and her son’s family; employment records; and identification papers documenting her departure from Vienna, stay in England, and immigration to the United States. Liese Schifferes materials consist of ...

  4. Defeat of France -- Compiegne -- Foch's railcar

    The narrator announces that is it the "21st of June, day of Compiegne." Franco-German armistice negotiations began at Compiegne, France, on June 21st, 1940. German soldiers are shown draping a French war memorial with a Nazi German flag. German troops holding rifles march into the camera, then into the Glade of the Armistice (a large plaza which was created as a memorial to the French victory in 1918), in the center of which stands the train car of Marshal Foch. This is the location of the signing of the armistice ending World War I, on November 11, 1918. It was destroyed by the Germans thr...

  5. Postwar Poland; destruction

    Snow-covered and war-damaged Poland, 1946. Horse with cart, building ruins. Three men looking at architectural drawing of a shelled building, pointing to destruction in BG. CU, blueprint of building.

  6. Heinrich Himmler identification card

    Contains a student identification card for Heinrich Himmler (later Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler) from the University of Munich, where he was enrolled from fall semester 1922 through fall semester 1924, studying political science. The identification card includes picture and signature.

  7. Relocation of displaced persons

    EXT, relocation of DPs and war refugees. Filmed in Linz [see US army truck with Linz painted on the back.] VS, camp from various angles. LS establishing shot of a large crowd of displaced persons- men, women, and children, milling about outside of a barracks-like building (processing center). MCU, refugees in smaller groups, talking to each other as they wait for entrance to the building. Some look directly at the camera, several avoid it. These are many groups of extended families. Julien Bryan's notes do not indicate the ethnicity, nationality, or religious preference of the DPs, but they...

  8. Charles Roman documents

    Contains documents pertaining to Charles Roman's experiences in Vienna, Austria, and as a child in orphanages in France during the war. Includes an original letter from Felix Chevrier, the director of the Château de Chabannes children's home, to Charles's mother, Marianne Roman.

  9. International Exposition in Paris, 1937

    People at International Exposition in Paris in 1937. Statues. Foot of Eiffel Tower. Aerial shots, crowds, pavilions. CUs, people transported in little train car (powered by automobile). MSs, German pavilion with eagle at top. Buildings with sign: "Dauphine" and "A la Cicogne." Boat in river, traveling shot of pavilions and large statues. Children walking over bridge at expo attraction.

  10. "My Life in Siberia" memoir

    One memoir, entitled "My Life in Siberia," by Jean Steinberg; contains poetry and prose relating to the donor's life in pre-war Poland and forced migration to Siberia. Memoir is bound, 124 pages, with a cover illustration.

  11. Jewish quarter of Warsaw burning, 1939

    This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. Bryan did not have any external lights to illuminate the action while shooting this event. If the viewer looks closely they can make out the outlines and shadows of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter in bucket brigades in the foreground of these shots trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. The quarter was destroyed that night.

  12. BDM girls

    Girls at school, on porch, gardening, bread, milking goat.

  13. Airship construction

    Scientists/engineers in airship/Zeppelin hangar, working, massive steel. INT, airship. CUs, workers' shoes. Elevator. Men working.

  14. Hitler visits Latvia in July 1941

    Title with names of cameramen/journalists (some off screen): "Breselow, Burckhardt, Elsigan, Empter, Epkens, Helmut Fischer, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Geer, Gerhard Haller, Heere, Iffland, Jansen, Jonak, Jung, Kester, Klicks, Langner, Leske, Loesche, Loos, Lusteck, Nischwitz, Noak, Onasch, V. Pebal, Peters, Petrusch, Proszkowski, Pruefer, Ramhorst, Sakeus, Hans Schmid, Schneider, Werner Scholz, Selbach, Selle, Tann, Thomassen, Weil, Wild, Wilke, Zumpe" 01:00:40 Hitler visiting troops in the East at Malnava in Latvia at HQ of Army, Group North on July 21, 1941. He is lands and gets into a car. H...

  15. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Holland in June 1950; Marshall Plan parade

    EXT crowd lines the street. Motorcade. Eleanor Roosevelt beside a car shaking hands. Line of university professors in academic robes enter a building with an American flag flying over the entrance. People get out of cars, Netherlands flag in BG. INT church with crowd of seated academics. EXT Eleanor Roosevelt walking with academics, wearing hood and holding wreath and piece of paper. CU, crowd on street clapping. Parade for economic recovery (ECA) activities passes, including a band and a float of the Holland America Westerdam ship. Float of a beetle: “STAATSVIJANDA.” More parade floats, on...

  16. Hitler's butler's home movies; Oswald Mosley, BUF in London

    1938 color home movies of Kannenberg family in Germany. Two young girls (nieces) with Arthur Kannenberg and shiny black Mercedes flying small swastika. Intertitle: "Unser Vater an seinem 73.ten Geburtstag (Our father on his 73rd birthday) 21.6.38." Grandfather, grandmother, 3 young girls bring flowers. Family scenes, including storefront "Villa Luise." [1944 police document identifies Inger Poulsen of Elbingerode, niece of "Hausintendant Kannenberg", born 5 March 1923 in Kopenhagen, Denmark] 01:02:26 "Corporate Films Ltd. Present" "East London Blackshirt Rally" "Victoria Park 7th. June 1936...

  17. Destroyed Gdansk

    Reel 3A Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 In Gdansk (Danzig), destruction to buildings along the river in the city, reflection in the water. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. Three men digging in a pile of bricks. Repeat of earlier two sequences in black and white. August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. Winter 1945/1946 or...

  18. Postwar Poland

    A partially edited film sequence about a Polish family in postwar conditions. INT A young boy picking up and arranging his school books. CU Boy doing school work. Man (the father?) enters the room and shows a box to the boy, boy shadow boxes, man takes boy by the ear and they leave together. CU Boy shadow boxing as man pinches his ear. CU Man speaking. In the kitchen, a woman (the mother?) lights the stove, the man enters and she passes him a bucket as he leaves. Two boys run down stairs, pick up and open the box, then leave through a doorway. CU Two boys opening the box. CU Cigarettes insi...

  19. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek

    Liberation of Polish towns. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek.

  20. Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

    In Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, Germans salute/heil en masse for the Party Congress, soldiers marching in BG are barely seen, VAR shots of spectators heiling. LS, parade with flags. View of spectators in windows (some flanked with Nazi flags and flower boxes). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. Hitler arrives, salutes crowd from middle of square. More goose-stepping. Close shots of Nazi elites in uniform. In crowd, brown shirt purchases hot dog and bun from a female vendor. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing ...