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  1. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is...

  2. Anna Rosenberg family photographs

    Contains four photographs of the wedding of Karola Winiecki and Mayer Kopytko in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1946. Karola Winiecki is a survivor of the Krushin, Pionko, Auschwitz, and Malchow camps, and Mayer Kopytko is a survivor of the Demblin ghetto and workcamp, then escaped and survived in the woods of Poland from 1942-1945.

  3. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    CU of a man blowing a warning whistle, cut to a large statue of a mermaid wielding a shield and a sword, an unidentified bridge and the Vistula River are visible in the BG. Cut to MCU of the statue, then to a LS of the deserted banks of the river, train tracks run directly along the river banks, and there are empty, open-topped train cars. VS of this plaza and mermaid statue near the riverport- one car rides on the road around the statue, but the area is basically deserted.

  4. Sirman family collection

    Collection consists of three photographs: one of a wedding portrait, and two of a man in a concentration camp uniform. The collection also contains one booklet in German, published by the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, showing photographs and describing the history and conditions of the camps of Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, and Nordhausen.

  5. Abraham Getman photographs

    A collection of 83 photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham (Avram) Getman and his family during the period immediately following the Holocaust. The collection includes images of refugee camps in St. Marein and Admont in Austria and images of the donor's emigration from Austria to Israel in 1948.

  6. Catholic procession in Lowicz, Poland, 1936 and wedding in city

    Lowicz, Poland, 1936: Preparations for a religious holiday. MS, young girl with a full head of curly blonde hair that is being braided and combed by her mother and her sister in preparation for the ceremony. The entire town seems to be taking part in the celebration. VS of the elaborate celebration. The scenes inside the church seem to under cranked, causing the scenes to move at a faster than normal speed. INT church shots end at 01:09:36. EXT, VS of the procession through town. 01:10:41 Brief cut to a different location, probably a city. Bride and groom exit an automobile and enter a chur...

  7. Gutter family papers

    The papers consist of 20 documents relating to Elsa Gutter Deutsch and Grete Gutter Knoblich, Melissa Cutter's paternal aunts, and two photographs of Jean Gutter, Melissa Cutter's father.

  8. Warsaw street scenes; construction; shops, women

    MCU, passengers boarding a train. Uniformed conductor or a police officer stands on the platform. Young man in knickers and a cap looks at the camera before boarding, another young boy comes up behind him to board. Building under construction in Warsaw, the sign reads: "Dzwigi Bracia Jenike" and another "Felzytyn Skalenit" Shop window with female mannequins. MLS, on the street in Warsaw, three women at a fruit vendor's stand. MS, architectural detail and supports of a building. Fabric store window with a mannequin, a woman looks from the street. Passersby turn toward the camera. Woman conti...

  9. Gymnasium Langenhagen project collection.

    Consists of transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors in Paris, June 9-15, 2002, done by a class of German high school students from the Gymnasiums Langenhagen (Langenhagen, Germany).

  10. Kazimierz: market square; street scenes

    Market square and vibrant daily life in Kazimierz, Krakow's Jewish quarter. CU, man inspecting a chicken for sale. CU, young girl at the market. High angle view of a prominent spire and statue. Quick shot of a table full of chickens and shoppers set before the Izaak synagogue, which still stands today. Streets in Krakow with shops and inhabitants of the Jewish quarter. A group of school boys following a man with balloons pass by the entrance to a hotel, "Restauracia Kawiarnia Hotelu Mullera". View of another street in the Jewish quarter with children helping an older woman bring hay through...

  11. German soldier and women

    Outdoors on an athletic field. An older man wearing an athletic suit, jumps for camera. Two different women and German soldier with glasses. A nurse is visible briefly in the BG - maybe this is on the grounds of a hospital? CU, blonde woman. Women and 2 German officers talk, greet each other, walk about the field, look over stone wall.

  12. Coal factory; workers

    Mining factory. INT, very dark, man fuels fire. Men shovel into the fire. A train with bars of coal drives by. The coal mining compound, INTs, EXTs, LS. CUs, signs warning of electricity and gas. Shots of the machinery and process and workers. 01:08:10 People boarding a train. Men sitting outside on break, smoking. Men at their lockers preparing to leave.

  13. Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp photograph

    One photograph of a large group of newly liberated Jews at the Landsberg displaced persons camp taken in June 1945.

  14. Loading supplies on ship

    EXT American flag on a ship in FG looking across water to a large building on shore in BG. Crane loading supplies on a ship. Looking up at crane from between rows of railway cars. Men moving load of wood. Men working in a lumber yard. CU of men carrying wood.

  15. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" appears on the film leader. Young patients in a room who manifest signs of being severely mentally disturbed and/or disabled. Close up of a girl rocking back and forth and a boy repeatedly sticking out his tongue. Older patients are also present. Nurses attend to a crying female patient. A shot of an older man in what might be a different room. Patients in beds; the camera pans down to show the malformed and very thin legs of one of the patients. More than one of the patients is in a straightjacket. Some of the patients are shown eating. A couple of the patients talk animatedly;...

  16. Written testimonies of St. Louis survivors

    Contains written testimonies of St. Louis survivors compiled by Terry Healy's Woodrow Wilson elementary students in Manhattan, Kansas.

  17. Film crew in action at Theresienstadt - cabaret, soccer

    Shooting film at Theresienstadt in 1942, prior to the famous 1944 footage. Interior cafe scene. Three uniformed German cameramen and cameras seen in action. Sign: Theresienstadt Terezin Kreis: ------ 3 cameramen with camera and tripod set up; all into automobile with SS license plate, drive away. One armed guard (local police?) patrolling, near sign: "Juedisches Siedlungsgebiet, Stehenbleiben verboten!" / Jewish settlement area, No loitering! Cabaret performed on stage, assorted costumes; accordionist. Painted scenery. Woman in flowered dress performs alone on stage, dance movements. Two me...

  18. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach

    Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. At right, Olga Klepetarova (Hana's aunt) drinking coffee with her friends. Boys on bicycles, including Hana's brother Jiri (George). At beach with frisbee. 01:01:50 Hana crawling at beach with her friend Inge, playing with frisbee. 01:02:14 CU, Hana and brother. Peeling apple, at table with mother. 01:03:30 (brief) Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants. 01:03:40 At beach, Dr. Klein digging in sand with his daughter Anna. 01:04:17 Dr. Spousta's daug...

  19. Selected records from the Departmental Archives de la Haute-Garonne

    This collection contains records on internees in the Noé, Récébédou, Vernet, and Brens camps. Records include name, date and place of birth, and (occasionally) date of internment. The collection also includes information about the administration of the camps; arrests and deportations; the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs; and legislation concerning Jews and Freemasons.

  20. School children in south central Poland, circa 1936

    INT, CU of a man wearing a uniform with an elaborate hat, a fez with a large plume and a metallic embroidered emblem in the center of a hammer and anvil. He slowly removes the hat. Cut to a CU of a framed painting of a woman or man in medieval dress, holding a chalice in one hand and a sword in the other (biblical painting?). Zinc quarry with a CU of a worker drilling into the rock. EXT, MLS, two nuns lead a group of kindergarten age children from a schoolyard onto the street (a rural dirt road). The children file out and smile at the camera. INT, MS, inside the classroom, the young childre...