Title on screen: Battle of Vitebsk. Map showing Vitebsk (50 miles due west of Moscow), narrator explains the strategic importance of the city and the military situation as it was by June 1944. Soviet army begins assault. German soldiers advance toward city, come across camp of Soviet civilians. LS Russian T34 tanks move to front silhouetted by sunrise, MLS of column of men marching, SU100s, tanks, ...

Dutch army near Breda, Netherlands. Soldiers on bicycles, motorbikes, tanks moving through Dutch countryside. 04:40:23 Soldiers in trench, camouflaged lookout. 04:41:12 Soldiers and civilians, flasks being filled with rations. Digging trenches. Soldiers and civilians drinking, smoking. 04:42:48 Soldiers marching, windmill in BG. Putting dynamite around trees, for blocking roads in case of attack. Machine ...

Auschwitz concentration camp at liberation. Pan of camp: row after row of barracks. Quick shot "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Trench with bodies, MLS then MCU of woman in the trench. MS, line of camp inmates with Soviet soldiers standing above the trenches, taking down notes. VS, inmates, an old woman and a young boy stand side by side posing for the camera. They are both very emaciated, the woman is dressed ...

Contains correspondence, reports, orders and various other documents relating to administrative matters handled by the Feldkommandantur in Radom, Poland, from circa December 1944 to circa March 1945. Includes promotions for military personnel; special operations for German military formation Korük 532; distribution of weapons; building of trenches and defenses; dismantling of businesses in Radom; ...

Reel 4: Partisan soldiers firing guns. Col. Jagos looking through glasses. Men placing artillery guns in position, horses, men marching. Partisan soldiers resting on roadside, sleeping, writing letters. Solders in trenches; dead German soldier. Soldiers eating lunch. Marching through Sotin; peasants watching as convoy of artillery guns and soldiers march through village. Villagers watching haystack ...

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: MS of a man. Negev, barracks, people eating. Ben Gurion and a man. Stills of young Ben Gurion. Interview with Ben Gurion. Plowing with horse, VS tilling, sowing, reaping, working the land. Rowboats, people on shore. Laying pipe with crane. More of interview with Ben Gurion. Camp footage, interview continues. Ben Gurion proclaims state (no sync-voiceover). Cheering ...

Graphic of a map, labeled "Afrika". The narrator states: "On the Egyptian front." Panning shot of desert, showing a soldier on watch at the Qattara Depression, near El Alamein. Rommel giving orders to another officer, surrounded by soldiers. They peer through binoculars and consult a map. The narrator states that the defense of El Alamein is being discussed in detail. Italian and German paratroopers ...

One unpublished manuscript titled "Sara Zyskind." The first few chapters of the third book by Sara Plager Zyskind, survivor of Łódź ghetto. Sara Zyskind was unable to finish her book about the lives of the young survivors in Łódź and their desires and efforts to reach Eretz Israel. The original was written in Hebrew and later translated into Polish.

02:43:10 Title: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "8"/ "Moscow" / "February 1943" / "Directed by I. Setkinoy" / "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "Our armies have finished destroying the German-fascists surrounded near Stalingrad" / "Documentary of the last days of the enemy surrounded near Stalingrad" Panning ELSs of fire fight on snowy terrain. Aerial MSs of Soviet airplanes. Close views of corpses. MS soldiers ...

Film reel threaded through projector. Maneuvering scenes in summer. Moerser, horse cart, MG. 10:10:20 Construction of a pontoon bridge, guns, heavy bunkers, aerial combat, train ride "Dahlem", trains. 10:13:18 Paris shots. 10:16:12 "Soldatenkino" fishing port, French women with fellow countrymen, Germans with hats, posters. 10:22:50 Observation stand on the western front, newspaper "Der Sieg". 10:32:00 ...

Part 1. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Film opens with poor quality still photos and names of uprising fighters. Credits and music play. Footage of the people of Warsaw preparing for the uprising. They prepare bandages, guns, bullets. People create barricades and lay communications cable. Fighting in the streets. Men swimming and shaving in a river. Interior ...

Map showing Leningrad. The narrator announces: "on the front, south of the Ladoga Lake." View of "hedgehog" fortifications (crisscrossed iron bars strung with barbed wire) in the snow. A German soldier in a white snowsuit and helmet and with a rifle slung over his shoulder, looks out at the scene. Another soldier, also on watch, stands in a trench. "Bolshevist tanks attack! Here they come!" announces ...

"On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in August 2014--an unprecedented, spectacular pictorial history of the first global war in 380 black-and-white photographs, many never seen before, from Imperial War Museums. This monumental, dramatic photographic narrative captures the war from the early arms race that developed around the massing of prewar battleship fleets to the final moments of ...

View of World War I warfare from the trench, smoke rising from bombings in the field. Soldiers charge forward in grassy fields. 01:18:07 "Kamerad" (slate with Donald C. Thompson inscription) German troops surrender to Americans, taken into trenches. 01:18:51 "And still they come" More enemies are captured. 01:19:22 "Removing buttons to prevent escape" Cutting suspenders out of pants. Captured men behind ...

Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of ...

02:33:15 Title: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "6"/ "Moscow"/ "January 1943" / "Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "19th Anniversary of Lenin's death" / "Under the banner of Lenin-Stalin we will win" Coverage of Kremlin ceremony commemorating Lenin and exalting Stalin. Molotov and Malenkov. 02:37:10 Title: "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "The blockade of Leningrad is infiltrated"/ "Coverage of the Volkhov front" ...

No. 2. Part 1, Hitler Youth members hold a torch-light parade on skis. Alpine troops train on a snow-covered mountain. Part 2, Figure skaters perform in Berlin's Sportspalast. Part 3, Fighting on the Russian front. German planes dive bomb and smash advancing Russian tanks, shells burst, buildings burn, and artillery fires. Views of wrecked Russian tanks and of Germans in trenches. A German Col. who ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 731, Part 1. Release date, 12/26/1938. German military power. Mobilization in Austria. Schuschnigg gives weak Nazi salute. Mobilization in Sudetenland, President Benes. digging trenches; country folk; woman with gas mask and baby. Chamberlain goes to Munich while the English drill and prepare for war. Chamberlain returns with "settlement of Czech problem". Smashed windows ...

Men unload barrels from an American ship in the port of New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. An American soldier patrols the area. 01:23:00 An American camp in New Caledonia. Soldiers march through the countryside and then dig communication trenches. The March of Time story cards indicate that these are American troops but their helmets look British. 01:25:29 A training exercise ...

How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The embattled self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-- rites ...

Collection of photographs relating to the Jordan family from Miskolc, Hungary. Gyula Itzhak Jordan (b. Nov. 30, 1895) and his wife Aranka Zeisler Jordan (b. January 29, 1904), parents of Judit, (b. June 13, 1929). The Jordan family moved to Budapest in 1932, where Judit attended Scottish missionary Burgerschule, but in September 1943 she was transferred to a Jewish Gymnasium. In March 1944, with German ...

"A definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile man put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in ...

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 ...