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  1. China landscapes and farming

    Various scenes of China - children, home, farming, agriculture, landscape, mountains, building boat, fishing.

  2. Children and ruins in postwar Poland

    EXT Boy pulling cart in the street. Boys with a dog digging in rubble. Boy riding a scooter past rubble. Ruined buildings. CU Traffic officer. Traffic officer directing traffic. Building under construction. Horse drawn cart passes hauling dirt or rubble. Boys and a dog playing in rubble. Two children, a boy and a girl, walk up a street of damaged buildings as men work in the BG. Damaged buildings. Man using a pick on a damaged wall. Debris falling through a damaged building. A boy and girl walk up a street of damaged buildings. Boy and girl pick through rubble. Boy and girl on a street corn...

  3. Julien Bryan footage of Warsaw

    Warsaw, forced labor, Polish POWs, Royal Castle in flames. People walking past dead horses in the street, general destruction, fires (including a church), people running in the streets.

  4. Passengers boarding a train in Poland, near Warsaw

    Short clip, unidentified location in Poland, circa 1937. Several people standing on a train platform as the train pulls into the station. Quick shots of passengers boarding the trains: men, women, and some teenage boys, all are well dressed, some carry parcels, in one shot a conductor is visible in the background and two adolescent boys board the train in the foreground. Several of the subjects look directly at the camera. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  5. Litman Turovsky papers

    The Litman Turovsky papers contain a photograph of Litman, 4 photographic postcards with scenes of Rėchytsa around the early 20th century, and a diary kept by Litman between 1910 and 1941. The diary records his daily life in Rėchytsa and also discuss Jewish tradition, famine, and the effects of war on the community during the town period recorded. The last entry was recorded three weeks before Germany invaded the town.

  6. Ruhr; shipbuilding; Doenitz; Dutch war volunteers; Rommel; troops

    Reel 1: Part 1, 10th anniversary of the death of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost; still photos of Troost and shots of the House of German Art and the Koenigliche Platz in Munich. 01:02:06 Part 2, The Ruhr: Captain Ruempler (Oak Leaves) and his comrades visit a mine, and go underground; shots of the miners and the soldiers. 01:02:50 Part 3, Germany: report on the hard and dangerous work of stevedoring; loading and unloading ships; ships with the coat of arms of Bremen. 01:03:40 Part 4, Stettin: Day of maritime transport, January 19, 1944; Admiral Doenitz speaks (no original sound); among the au...

  7. Gdynia; loading coal onto barges

    Train moving (towards the camera). "Gdynia" sign at rail station. Woman stacks sod. City scenes, buildings, bus, Polish soldiers, nun. Barges in the water. Loading coal on ships, one with "HEL GDYNIA" painted on the side. A man unloads huge sacks off a truck.

  8. Ruins; Czech prison

    EXT, man hammering, a destroyed building in BG. Men work among ruins. Pancraz prison in Prague SEQ (postwar): CU of a prisoner scrubbing the floor; CU, guillotine shadow; three men stand in front of the gallows and discuss. Men work among ruins. CU profile of man who cleaned the prison floor in earlier scene. Games on a table. A woman and a young girl speak with each other in a library. Children play soccer on a snowy field.

  9. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper published by the Altestenrat, the Council of Elders, in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. It was the only newspaper allowed in the ghetto and only published decrees issued by the German authorities.

  10. Going to church in central Poland

    In Lowicz, a young, attractive Polish peasant women is putting on her costume, she wears several layers of skirts, a cropped jacket, and long braids. In the BG a large thatched-roof building is visible. Older peasant woman, who stops while walking along a road to kiss a tree, she then continues on. Quick shot of two women entering a church, dipping their fingers in holy water before entering. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. Young girls, women and men entering the church in traditional costume. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-s...

  11. Portfolio

    Book, Arbeit Macht Frei, of reproductions of 16 drawings of concentration camp scenes by Frantisek Reichtental. This edition, signed by the artist on the title page, is number 449 of a limited run of 5000 copies, of which 1000 were signed by Reichtental. The majority of the proceeds from the book sales were dedicated to the children's homes of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Slovakia.

  12. Farming village in central Poland

    Repeat of quick shot of an older peasant woman handing her bundles to a man who puts them on a horse drawn carriage. Quick CU of a man in profile, cut to two girls and their mother in peasant dress. The girls pose alone for the camera. Two elderly ladies talking, MCU in profile. Large wooden cross framed by a window, shot from INT to EXT. Back to peasant women, one helps the other adjust her skirt waist. ECU of elderly women with headscarf. Several women gathered together on the road, closeups. CU man in traditional hat, the elderly woman and man with a horse. MLS, four women in traditional...

  13. Hana Kovanic photographs

    The 67 photographs depict the Kohn family, the maternal relatives of Hanna Kovanic, who were from Velká nad Velickou in Moravia, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). Most of the relatives depicted in the photographs perished in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1944.

  14. Livshitz family collection

    Consists of letters written from family members and friends in Europe to Yakov (Yankel, or Jack) Livshitz in the United States and in Canada. Dated between 1928-1941, the letters describe life in the shtetl and the desires of his relatives and friends to emigrate out of Europe.

  15. YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague

    Man operates a movie reel projector, children watch and cheer the movie. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. Man sings to a classroom. Man plays piano. Boys play basketball. CUs of Czech language booklets. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Young men learn how to play basketball. Large buildings in Prague. CUs, signs for the YMCA. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. A group of people in a room sing together and perform hand motions to the song. Camera tracks backwards over Charles Bridge. The Prague Castle. CUs, basketball players. More city scenes of Prague, streets, build...

  16. Confiscated property Entzogene Vermögenschaften

    Contains records of Jewish-owned movie theaters in the vicinity of Vienna, Austria, expropriated by the Österreichische Filmvertriebsgesellschaft, later called the Österreichische Filmvertriebsgeschaft; restitution files after World War II; and 178 files of individuals whose personal property was expropriated, including inventories of items, objects, and insurance polices.

  17. Nazi rally, 1937 - Hitler, Himmler, Reichsarbeitsdienst parade; Anti-Bolshevik exhibit crowds; Berlin streets crowded for Mussolini visit.

    Nazi party rally at Nuremberg, pan of stadium, regiments already assembled on the field; more still entering, an injured man is carried away on a stretcher. 01:06:45:00 Some MCUs on the young soldiers on the field, some look back at the camera, all are chewing gum--the bare-chested regiment-- Nazi "beefcake". MCU of the beefcake singing in unison. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. VS of flags waving; military milling about the stadium. Scenes outside of the Anti-Bolshevik Exhibit (Antibolschevistische Ausstellung); uniformed Nazis with armbands line up to enter ...

  18. Silver kiddush cup with scenes of Lublin entrusted to a Gentile neighbor

    Silver engraved kiddush cup given to Zofia Jedrusiak for safekeeping by a Jewish woman in Lublin, Poland, in 1941. She said that Zofia should return the cup to her son if he returned to Poland after the war. This cup had been given to her son on the occasion of his bris, or circumcision, when he was an infant. A kiddush cup is a ceremonial vessel to hold wine for the blessing said at Shabbat and Jewish holidays meals. No one ever returned for the cup, but Zofia's family kept it safe for over fifty years in the hope that someone might return to claim it.

  19. Application forms for the mandatory adoption of the names Sara and Israel for Austrian Jews

    Contains mandatory name-change applications received from Jews by the Vienna, Austria, district offices of the Bezirkshauptmannschaften.

  20. Jüdische Gemeinde Stuttgart collection

    Consists of records pertaining to the Jewish communities of Stuttgart, Esslingen, Hechingen, and Ulm and various other records. Includes postwar name lists of survivors from Theresienstadt and Bergen Belsen living in Switzerland; name lists and deportation lists of Jews from the Stuttgart area (1935-1945); deportation lists to Theresienstadt (1942-1944); community records of the town Hechingen (1942-1945); organization of food supply (1944-1945); correspondence of Mr. Marx, who was the "Vertrauensmann der Reichsvereinigung" in Stuttgart until 1944; records of the high council of Israelites ...