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Slovak Sound Weekly: Representatives of the Croatian Ustashe Youth during a visit to Slovakia in Piestany, escorted by the leader of the Hlinka Youth, Alojz Macek.
English intertitles. "Metrotone hits the Romany Trail: A Visit to a Camp of Cheerful Gypsies in the Balkan Mountains" Roma children and adults dancing and playing instruments (and seated, watching) outside tents. Some good MCU, mostly MS. Dust, bright sun, haze/smoke? Smiles everywhere. Great CUs of Roma boys singing. Kids swarm around visitor who is giving out "coppers." Romani woman reads fortune ...
Armistice Celebrations in Washington, DC, New York, Paris, and London, 1918. Revised version, 1936. Summary: Reel 2: Crowds congregate in Paris streets, examine captured guns, wave French flags and read posters. King George and Queen Mary visit US wounded in London, feed patients and greet convalescents.
Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 3, Part 3. Release date, 01/05/1931. According to UN Offical Motion Picture Release: "Throngs Acclaim Einstein's Arrival at Pacific Coast" San Diego, CA. Mount Wilson's Observatory helps to prove scientist's theory of relativity. Many of world's eminent astronomers join in making noted German's visit one of keen interest. CU, ship SS Blegenland, girls in middy blouses ...
The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials ...
Consists of one transcript, 20 pages, of an oral history conducted in 1998 by Esther Levy with her mother, Miryam Levy, originally of Khust, Czechoslovakia. In the interview, Miryam shares memories of her childhood, the family's deportation to Terezin (Theresienstadt) in December 1941, and her memories of the filming of the Red Cross visit to Terezin. The family was liberated by the Russian Army in ...
Collection of materials relating to the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936 collected during a visit to Berlin in summer 1936. Included in the collection are: tickets, street maps, tourist guides, advertising from the famous warehouse 'Karstadt' at Hermannplatz (which was new and is an example for the modern architecture and modern life at that time). Includes a faksimile street map of Berlin in the 1930s. ...
Collection of materials relating to David Joseph Brill (donor's father). Includes photographs taken in Erlangen, Germany, when David returned there in 1935 to convince his parents to immigrate; photographs taken in 1980 of David with the Bittners, a couple who assisted his parents after their arrest following Kristallnacht; a copy of a newspaper article about David's 1980 return trip to Erlangen; a ...
Consists of one typescript article, 9 pages, in English, entitled "Afternoon in Buchenwald" by Richard Daughtry, written by Henry F. Tonn. In the article, Tonn describes World War II veteran Richard Daughtry's experience visiting Buchenwald in April 1945 after the liberation, including his tour of the camp, where he witnessed the victims still in the crematorium, emaciated survivors, and items made ...
Herman and Lotte Bland emigrated from Poland to the United States settling in Chicago and Milwaukee. Herman (1893-1945) was born in Filipow and Lotte (Zlata Marks, 1896-1953) was born in Suwalki. In 1937, they decided to visit their birthplaces with their children, Leonard and Harold. They traveled from New York to Le Havre on the SS Normandie. Herman, a motion picture operator and theater owner, brought ...