October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. ...

On the invasion of Poland: various (successful) military campaigns by Nazis, on land, sea, and air. The Schleswig-Holstein bombards Danzig. Huge German naval warship firing cannons at port. Smoke, war. The garrison surrenders. White flag, slow pan along banks of canal. Cigarettes are distributed to POWs by German soldiers. Nazis and horse-drawn artillery advancing along hay-covered country road. Artillery ...

Funeral/memorial procession in Berlin, men in uniform marching in city streets, large wreath carried at front. Huge parade/military review, marching band, spectators line the streets, bus passes in BG. Guard stands with rifle in doorway German War Memorial (columned building); CU, boots. LS, small crowd gathers at memorial, building with columns seen in LS. EXTs.

(LIB 6572) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. INTs and EXTs, gas execution chamber with sign over door in German: "Brausebad" (Shower Bath). CU, pan to ceiling, gas vents; two holes on wall. ECU, one gas "nozzle." CU, floor; bigger vent (against wall). MS, pan to ceiling pipes. CU, 2 soldiers (one looks mournful, one disgusted). Piles of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber. SLATE: Marthey. ...

A pre-war collection of posters, leaflets and announcements from Poland relating to elections to the parliament (a number of announcements refer to the Bund party), theater events, funeral services, lectures and literary evenings.

“MUNICH” “LUDWIGSTRASSE.” People walk along Ludwigstrasse in Munich, some turn to look at the camera. “ODEONSPLATZ.” Funeral wreaths on the stairs of Feldherrnhalle. Nazi soldiers walk down the stairs on the left. Children, pigeons in the Odeonsplatz. “HOFGARTEN” Munich, Germany, white chairs and covered tables in the pavilion. “OKTOBERFEST” Procession of men on horseback, marching band. They are dressed ...

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Kazimierz, the predominantly Jewish area of Krakow, filmed by Julien Bryan. Men inside arched shop entrance. Various shots and CUs of people, with many Orthodox men on street, walking, talking, avoiding camera. Mixture of other people mingling and on the move. Market stall selling poultry in the main square in Kazimierz, synagogue in background. Market stalls and vendors. Street scenes, balloons, shops. ...

Human remains and violence aims to question the social legacy of mass violence by studying how different societies have coped with the dead bodies resulting from war, genocide and state sponsored brutality. However, rather paradoxically, given the large volume of work devoted to the body on the one hand, and to mass violence on the other, the question of the body in the context of mass violence remains ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

REEL 2. The American students dine on a train on their way to East Prussia. Sculptural relief of Danzig’s Coat of Arms. Gdańsk belltower. Clocktower of the townhall. The group tours the town. President Schanz? takes a photo. The unique gables of Gdansk houses. Boats in the canal. The old port crane used for loading and unloading ships. Visitors walk out onto the pier and tour the grounds of Marlbork ...

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Contains records of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Most valuable is the cemetery book with entries of all funerals since the day of the opening of the graveyard in 1949. Also contains original statutes of the Jewish organizations from Bielsko-Biała, Jewish birth registers, Jewish diaries, name lists of Jewish soldiers, name lists of Jewish survivors, lists of Jewish properties, photographs ...

REEL 3. Arrival in Dresden, cathedral, Zwinger Palace with many classical sculptures. Boat on the Elbe. The train moves alongside the Saale River and enters Thuringia. The ruins of the Rudelsberg Castle on a hill. In Weimar, funeral wreaths with ribbons bearing swastikas at the base of the Goethe-Schiller monument with two bronze statues of the poets. The Schiller House. The students walk with a professor ...

Footage with musical soundtrack documenting several years in occupied France from the perspective of the resistance. Brief shot, city street. Doriot speaking (synch): "L'Angleterre est vaincue." Maps, airplanes, air attack. 02:20:23 "1941" Train station, people, children getting off train, smiling. Various CUs. Tracking shot, city street, buildings, German signs. INT, party. Hitler. Children presenting ...

Title on screen: Ozaphan 1/40 Monatschau; Durchsuchen genommener franzoesischer Stellungen [Search of captured French trenches]. Armed German soldiers walk along a muddy road and among destroyed buildings. They search the banks and interior of a trench. Title on screen: Ein Fesselballoon wrid zum Aufstieg fertiggemacht [A captive balloon (? dictionary translation) is prepared for its ascent]. German ...

Mach V. – Machová V.: Okresní úřad Mělník 1850-1945 (1952). Inventář, 2011, ev. č. 776. Havelková V. – Marjanková M.: Okresní úřad Mělník – Presidiální spisy I. Část 1. Katalog, 1973, ev. č. 11 Havelková V. – Marjanková M.: Okresní úřad Mělník – Presidiální spisy I. Díl 2. Katalog, 1973, ev. č. 12 Marjanková M.: Okresní úřad Mělník – Presidiální spisy II. Katalog, 1972, ev. č. 10 Havelková V.: Okresní ...

Warsaw ghetto, probably in May 1942, filmed privately by German camerman, Willy Wist. General views of the gates opening for a vehicle. Bare-shirted men load bodies in a pit. CU, Jewish man. Market scenes, food and materials for sale, Jews with armbands. Street scenes, crowded sidewalks, trams, rickshaws. Massive funeral procession, various shots, some closeup. Unintentional dark shots. German officer ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Hy Bloom was born in Ottawa on July 15, 1921, son of Celia Bloom and David Lewis Bloom, a tailor. At the age of eight, he first encountered the fascinating world of sound under the guidance of his father and before Hy had finished elementary school, he was building basic microphones. Frequent visits to the library and regular attendance at various radio shops augmented his Lisgar Collegiate education. ...

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In 1848, the Blatná District Governor's Office was established within the competence of the Regional Office in Písek and included the Blatná judicial district and, since 1868, the Březnice judicial district. The Blatná District Office was established as a mixed district office in 1855 and dealt with the political and judicial agendas. In 1868, the Blatná District Governor's Office was restored. In ...

Mevrouw van Leeuwen heeft het bombardement in Amsterdam Noord op 17 juli 1943 meegemaakt toen zij bijna 5 jaar oud was. Ze was thuis met haar vader en moeder en 2 oudere broers. Haar moeder en zijzelf waren in de gang en hebben gewacht tot het lawaai en het vallen van puin enigszins over was. Haar broertjes en vader waren in een ander deel van het huis. Haar vader is naar beneden gestort met keuken ...

Miscellaneous records related to evidence collected by the Czech secret police in the course of the investigation of Nazi crimes committed in the occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The following file is a small sub-collection within the larger collection of 9.5 linear meters. A large accretion of the files to follow at a later date.