Overview
- Collection Summary
- In the 1930s, the American filmmaker Julien Bryan chronicled life in Poland and Nazi Germany. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Bryan risked his life to record the ferocious siege of Warsaw, “People might not believe my story if I told it in words when I returned to America. Everyone would believe my pictures.” Bryan embraced this philosophy throughout his career by aiming to further world understanding through documentary films. The film portion of the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum includes 141 reels of motion picture film, including the most pristine version of the documentary "Siege." The collection sheds new light on the experience of people struggling to defend themselves from Nazi persecution and to rebuild their countries and their lives.
- Credit
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Julien Bryan Archive
Administrative Notes
- Film Provenance
- Raye Farr, the founding director of the Museum’s Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, rediscovered Julien Bryan’s film heritage in the 1980s and brought the extraordinary images to the attention of the documentary film community. Farr worked closely with Julien’s son, Sam Bryan, the Executive Director of the International Film Foundation, and former Museum Archivist, Regina Longo, to assess and inventory the collection, particularly focusing on the original materials covering Poland and Nazi Germany. Sam Bryan donated Julien Bryan's rich body of works related to World War II to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
- Film Source
- Sam Bryan and International Film Foundation
- File Number
- Additional Accession Number: 2003.213
Browse 286 Items In This Collection
Modern Poland before World War II
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1260 | Film ID: 3050
Catholic church in Warsaw postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1342 | Film ID: 3051
Cemetery and church in postwar Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1343 | Film ID: 3052
Rebuilding Warsaw, probably in 1947
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1344 | Film ID: 3052
Destroyed Gdansk
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1345 | Film ID: 3052
Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1346 | Film ID: 3052
Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.1347 | Film ID: 3053
Polish YMCA in Prague, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4163 | Film ID: 3017
Production: 1946
Prison in Prague, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4164 | Film ID: 3017
Production: 1946
Prague, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4165 | Film ID: 3017
Production: 1946
Guillotine in prison, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4166 | Film ID: 3018
Production: 1946
Polish YMCA and rebuilding in Prague, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4167 | Film ID: 3018
Production: 1946
YMCA; music recital; rehabilitation of youth, Prague, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4168 | Film ID: 3018
Production: 1946
Intertitles for The Invisible Bridge; Czech prison sequence
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4169 | Film ID: 3018
Production: 1946
French children in a youth camp, postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4170 | Film ID: 3019
Production: 1946
WWII European refugees arrive in New York City
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4175 | Film ID: 3022
Production: 1946
Postwar French youth camp
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4176 | Film ID: 3023
Production: 1946
Relocation of displaced persons
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4177 | Film ID: 3024
Production: 1946
Relocation of displaced persons
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4178 | Film ID: 3024
Production: 1946
Relocation of displaced persons from Yugoslavia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4179 | Film ID: 3024
Production: 1946
Relocation of displaced persons
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4180 | Film ID: 3024
Production: 1946
Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4186 | Film ID: 3026
DPs emigrate from Bremerhaven, Germany to the United States; scenes of postwar life in Salzburg, Austria
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4187 | Film ID: 3026
Production: 1947
Siege of Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4468 | Film ID: 3031
Ceremony at church
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4646 | Film ID: 3028
Marshall Plan parade
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4647 | Film ID: 3028
Postwar steel wire factory
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4648 | Film ID: 3028
China landscapes and farming
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4649 | Film ID: 3028
Postwar steel wire factory
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4650 | Film ID: 3028
Marshall Plan parade
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4651 | Film ID: 3028
Eleanor Roosevelt in Holland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4652 | Film ID: 3028
Fishing in China
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4653 | Film ID: 3028
Arc de Triomphe
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4654 | Film ID: 3028
Women working at sewing machines; fashion
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4691 | Film ID: 3041
Daily life in Russia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4692 | Film ID: 3041
YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4704 | Film ID: 3048
Prague city; Czech prison; YMCA; Jaroslav Šimsa
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7126 | Film ID: 3060
Recovering in postwar Czechoslovakia; Šimsa
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7127 | Film ID: 3061
YMCA; Prague
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7128 | Film ID: 3062
Recovery activities sponsored by the Economic Cooperation Administration
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7130 | Film ID: 3064
Economic recovery activities in Europe
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7131 | Film ID: 3064
Eleanor Roosevelt visits Holland in June 1950; Marshall Plan parade
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7132 | Film ID: 3064
1948 short fiction film by Karl Sztollar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.7215 | Film ID: 3075
Postwar conditions of housing and YMCAs in Europe and the Far East
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.1737 | Film ID: 3054
Production: 1947
Kazimierz: market square; street scenes
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3941 | Film ID: 3000
Production: 1937
Daily life in Poland, street scenes in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3942 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Staged (comic) sequence in Zakopane
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3943 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Gdansk and Krakow scenes, daily life in Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3944 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Krakow's Jewish quarter: shops, merchants
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3945 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3946 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3947 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Mining in Upper Silesia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3948 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
One-room schoolhouse in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3949 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3950 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3951 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Catholic church service in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3952 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Polish Army parade in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3953 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Wawel Castle, Krakow
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3954 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Warsaw park and schoolboys
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3955 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Church and schoolyard in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3956 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Going to church in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3957 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Scenes from the port city of Gdynia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3958 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Polish Army parade in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3959 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Scenes from the port city of Gdynia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3960 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Polish Army parade in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3961 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3962 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Folk dancing in southern Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3963 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3964 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Folk dancing in southern Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3965 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming village in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3966 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Farming and schoolyard in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3967 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Preparing for church in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3968 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Krakow street scenes; children; shops
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3969 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Mountain views and street scenes in Zakopane
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3970 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Art school and zinc refinery
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3971 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
Warsaw street scenes; construction; shops, women
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3972 | Film ID: 3001
Production: 1937
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3973 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3974 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3975 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3976 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3977 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3978 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3979 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3980 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3981 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3982 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3983 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3984 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3985 | Film ID: 3003
Production: 1940
Folk dancing
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3986 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Farming life in rural Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3987 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Title credits for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3988 | Film ID: 3004
Street scenes and establishing shots of Krakow
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3989 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3990 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Establishing shots, street scenes and buildings in Krakow
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3991 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Graphics and intertitles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3992 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Establishing shots of village life in Katowice
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3993 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Scenes in a market square in Krakow
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3994 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witów
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3995 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Staged scenes of domestic life and folk dancing in the region of Katowice
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3996 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Scenes of rural life in the region of Katowice
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3997 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Krakow Jewish quarter
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3998 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Schoolhouse in the region of Katowice on the anniversary of the school's opening
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.3999 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Establishing shots, street scenes of daily life in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4000 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Passengers boarding a train in Poland, near Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4001 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Zinc refinery in operation in Katowice
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4002 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4003 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Polish port city of Gdynia and schoolgirls in Gdansk
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4004 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Polish Army parade in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4005 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Prelude to war and scenes of destruction inflicted by the invading German army in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4006 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Postwar destruction in Warsaw
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4007 | Film ID: 3004
Production: 1948
Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4008 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1936
Train travelling to Warsaw, Poland 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4009 | Film ID: 3005
Workers building the Pilsudski mound near Krakow, Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4010 | Film ID: 3005
Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4011 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1936
Czech prison images, 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4012 | Film ID: 3005
Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4013 | Film ID: 3005
Scenes of destruction in Warsaw, Poland 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4014 | Film ID: 3005
Polish cavalry
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4015 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1937
Edward Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshall 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4016 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1937
Jewish quarters Krakow and Warsaw 1936; Jewish teens
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4116 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1937
Edward Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshall 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4117 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1937
Warsaw park scenes 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4118 | Film ID: 3005
Production: 1937
Daily life in Zakopane, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4119 | Film ID: 3006
Production: 1937
Country life in Zakopane Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4120 | Film ID: 3006
Production: 1937
Daily life in Warsaw, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4121 | Film ID: 3006
Production: 1937
Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4122 | Film ID: 3006
Production: 1937
Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4123 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Train travel in southeastern Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4124 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Workers and townspeople in Katowice, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4125 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4126 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4127 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4128 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Daily life in Poland, 1936, scenes of Polish cavalry
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4129 | Film ID: 3007
Production: 1937
Ruins of Warsaw, Poland 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4130 | Film ID: 3008
Jewish quarter of Warsaw burning, 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4131 | Film ID: 3008
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4132 | Film ID: 3008
Catholic hospital in Warsaw destroyed during the German siege, 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4133 | Film ID: 3008
German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4134 | Film ID: 3008
Nazi rally, 1937 - Hitler, Himmler, Reichsarbeitsdienst parade; Anti-Bolshevik exhibit crowds; Berlin streets crowded for Mussolini visit.
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4135 | Film ID: 3009
Factory scenes, Katowice, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4136 | Film ID: 3010
Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4137 | Film ID: 3010
Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4138 | Film ID: 3010
Yiddish production (?) of Shakespeare play in Russia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4139 | Film ID: 3011
Daily life in Russia, children at play
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4140 | Film ID: 3011
Russian Christian Orthodox church service
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4141 | Film ID: 3011
Russian Jewish religious services
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4142 | Film ID: 3011
Daily life in Russia, children at play
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4143 | Film ID: 3011
Linz, Austria, 1948
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4144 | Film ID: 3011
Linz and Salzburg, Austria, 1948
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4145 | Film ID: 3011
Degenerate Art Exhibit [Entartete Kunst] in Munich, 1937
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4146 | Film ID: 3012
Production: 1937
Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4147 | Film ID: 3012
Production: 1937
Berlin street scenes; memorial ceremony; coal
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4148 | Film ID: 3012
Production: 1937
Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4149 | Film ID: 3012
Production: 1937
Street scenes in Cracow 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4150 | Film ID: 3013
Street scenes, Danzig, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4151 | Film ID: 3013
Daily life in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4152 | Film ID: 3013
Funeral; construction, daily life in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4153 | Film ID: 3013
Marshall Smigly-Rydz and President Ignacy Moscicki
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4154 | Film ID: 3013
Nazi Germany outtakes: Nuremberg Rally, Army Day; Cologne Cathedral; trains
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4155 | Film ID: 3014
Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4156 | Film ID: 3015
Nightlife; entertainment; park in Warsaw, 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4157 | Film ID: 3015
Catholic procession in Lowicz, Poland, 1936 and wedding in city
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4158 | Film ID: 3015
German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4159 | Film ID: 3015
Schoolhouse and countryside in Zlakow Koscielny, Poland 1937
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4160 | Film ID: 3016
German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4161 | Film ID: 3016
Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4162 | Film ID: 3016
Street scenes in Latvia, circa 1937
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4171 | Film ID: 3020
Production: 1937
Street scenes in Danzig, circa 1937
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4172 | Film ID: 3020
Production: 1937
Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4173 | Film ID: 3021
Production: 1933
Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4174 | Film ID: 3021
Production: 1933
Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4181 | Film ID: 3025
Production: 1937
School children in south central Poland, circa 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4182 | Film ID: 3025
Production: 1937
Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4183 | Film ID: 3025
Production: 1937
Market square in Krakow, circa 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4184 | Film ID: 3025
Production: 1937
Krakow Jewish quarter; business district
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4185 | Film ID: 3025
Production: 1937
Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4188 | Film ID: 3027
Production: 1946
Destruction and rebuilding in Poland circa 1946; country life in Poland, circa 1939
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4189 | Film ID: 3027
German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939; CUs of Poles
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4190 | Film ID: 3027
BDM: exercise; marching on roadside
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4457 | Film ID: 3029
Hitler Youth
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4458 | Film ID: 3029
BDM girls
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4459 | Film ID: 3029
DPs at Bremerhaven port
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4460 | Film ID: 3029
Coal industry in Germany
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4461 | Film ID: 3029
Refugees on ship, arriving in US
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4462 | Film ID: 3029
DPs in train station
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4463 | Film ID: 3029
Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4464 | Film ID: 3030
German countryside, village
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4465 | Film ID: 3030
Nazi Germany trims: HJ, propaganda
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4466 | Film ID: 3030
Amusement park
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4467 | Film ID: 3030
Airship construction
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4469 | Film ID: 3032
Goldschmidt School
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4470 | Film ID: 3032
Airship construction
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4471 | Film ID: 3032
Pupils at Goldschmidt School
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4472 | Film ID: 3032
Trade school in Berlin
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4473 | Film ID: 3032
Zinnowald Schule, Berlin
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4474 | Film ID: 3032
Street scenes in Berlin; Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten; Kranzler Cafe; Woolworth; telephone
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4475 | Film ID: 3032
BDM; woodshop
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4476 | Film ID: 3032
Kindergarten - Pestalozzi Froebel Haus
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4480 | Film ID: 3032
Children's outdoor celebration
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4481 | Film ID: 3032
Coal mining
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4483 | Film ID: 3032
Nazi Germany trims: Autobahn, HJ, Woolworth's, zeppelin, "Der Stuermer", exhibitions
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4484 | Film ID: 3033
Nazi Germany trims: HJ, wreath laying
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4485 | Film ID: 3034
Nazi propaganda
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4486 | Film ID: 3034
Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4487 | Film ID: 3034
Train in German village
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4488 | Film ID: 3034
Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4489 | Film ID: 3035
Postwar Poland; destruction
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4490 | Film ID: 3036
UNRRA supplies
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4491 | Film ID: 3036
Postwar damage in Poland, UNRRA, YMCA
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4492 | Film ID: 3036
Poles in apartment
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4493 | Film ID: 3036
Postwar destruction in Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4494 | Film ID: 3036
Warsaw in ruins
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4495 | Film ID: 3036
YMCA boys, boxing
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4496 | Film ID: 3036
Warsaw ruins
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4497 | Film ID: 3036
Men in office
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4498 | Film ID: 3036
Rebuilding Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4499 | Film ID: 3036
The legacy of Martin Luther in Germany
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4513 | Film ID: 3002
Church; Bach Museum
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4514 | Film ID: 3002
German War Memorial in Berlin
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4515 | Film ID: 3002
Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4516 | Film ID: 3002
Ruins; Czech prison
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4693 | Film ID: 3042
Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4694 | Film ID: 3043
Prelude to war in Poland; Polish army; Smigly-Rydz
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4695 | Film ID: 3043
Tito in office; map of Yugoslavia
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4700 | Film ID: 3045
Train; crowds
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4701 | Film ID: 3045
Rebuilding life: refugees board trains in Germany; learn English
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4702 | Film ID: 3046
Nazi soldiers; rally; Hitler Youth; military parade
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4703 | Film ID: 3047
Documentary about the German invasion and siege of Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4705 | Film ID: 3049
Production: 1940
Warsaw 1936
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4707 | Film ID: 3043
Catholic church celebration and schoolhouse in central Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4708 | Film ID: 3043
Couple visits estate
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4709 | Film ID: 3043
Liberating Soviet soldier
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7117 | Film ID: 3055
Loading supplies on ship
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7118 | Film ID: 3056
Young boys box in Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7119 | Film ID: 3057
Factory workers in Poland, postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7120 | Film ID: 3057
Classroom lessons, postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7121 | Film ID: 3058
Children at school
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7122 | Film ID: 3058
Polish children after WWII
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7124 | Film ID: 3059
Nurses with young patients
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7125 | Film ID: 3059
1948 documentary short on Poland (reel 2)
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7134 | Film ID: 3066
Children and ruins in postwar Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7201 | Film ID: 3067
Postwar Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7202 | Film ID: 3067
Children's hospital in Poland, postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7203 | Film ID: 3067
Children's hospital
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7204 | Film ID: 3068
Children living among the ruins in Warsaw, postwar
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7205 | Film ID: 3068
Young people, swimming
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7206 | Film ID: 3069
Rebuilding Warsaw after WWII
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7207 | Film ID: 3069
Factory operations in postwar Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7208 | Film ID: 3070
YMCA in Poland, 1948
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7209 | Film ID: 3070
Cemetery; postwar housing in Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7210 | Film ID: 3070
Babies at a nursery in Poland after WWII
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7211 | Film ID: 3071
Classroom activities in postwar Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7212 | Film ID: 3071
Edited film sequence documenting war destruction and rebuilding of life in postwar Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7213 | Film ID: 3072
Event: 1948
An American girl describes her visit to Poland
Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.7214 | Film ID: 3073, 3074
Event: approximately 1936-1937
Mikhoels performs a Yiddish play in Moscow
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4517 | Film ID: 3037
Salon; new fashions; Russian designer
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4519 | Film ID: 3038
Men review book; woman in fashionable dress
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4524 | Film ID: 3038
Tourists visit Russian city; skylines
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4525 | Film ID: 3038
Tourists visit church and palace in Russia
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4531 | Film ID: 3039
Tourist ferry and boats on town harbor
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4532 | Film ID: 3039
Trims of Russian scenes: children; school; peasants; roller-skating; farming
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4534 | Film ID: 3039
Boys receive medical treatment in mountains
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4536 | Film ID: 3039
Trims of Russian scenes: theatre; peasants; tourists visit palace
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4537 | Film ID: 3039
Peasants on break and at work farming in a mountain village
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4538 | Film ID: 3039
Trims of Russian scenes: bucolic mountains; city street scenes
Film | RG Number: RG-60.4540 | Film ID: 3039
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Collection consists of motion picture, still photographic materials, and colored glass slides and papers of Julien Bryan's visits to Poland, Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia during World War II. Also included in the collection are Julien Bryan's United States passport, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, announcements, and reviews of Julien Bryan's "Nazi Germany" traveling lecture, an envelope of duplicate newspaper clippings on "Siege" (of Warsaw), and a scrapbook of articles written on Julien Bryan's Siege of Warsaw film and book.
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A Polish family huddles around a column in front of the Opera House in besieged Warsaw while a Polish soldier looks on.
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Polish soldier and two civilian workers amid pile of wreckage in besieged Warsaw.
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Polish soldiers and civilians gathered on wreckage strewn hillside in Warsaw.
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A group of Polish women and children gather on the street during the Siege of Warsaw - the woman in the center is holding a loaf of bread.
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Hitler Youth gather on a street in Germany in Berlin 1939. [This image from Berlin was found in the P-20-1939 contact book]
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An intact portrait of President Roosevelt lies amidst the rubble of the destroyed officer of the American Consulate General in Warsaw.
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Interior view of a ward in the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration (one of Warsaw's largest hospitals) that is completely destroyed.
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A group of Polish men drag the carcass of a horse through the streets of Warsaw during the siege of the capital.
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Wide view of civilians, soldiers and police officer gathered along sidewalk.
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A Polish family lives in desitution on the streets of besieged Warsaw.
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A Polish woman holding her child converses with her soldier husband, who supervises a group of civilians digging an anti-tank trench along a street in Warsaw to slow the advance of the German army.
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The corpse of a child lies on the grounds of a bombed out school in besieged Warsaw.
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Polish civilians carry bundles and travel in horse-drawn carriages during the siege of Warsaw.
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Polish soldiers and civilians dig anti-tank trenches to defend Warsaw from the oncoming German army while other civilians pass by them on the street.
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Poles stare at a large hole created from a bombing of a street of beisieged Warsaw.
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Two Polish nurses attend to corpses lying on the ground in besieged Warsaw.
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Close view of signs marking the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation and the American Consulate in Warsaw 1939. Signs are in Polish and English.
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Wide view of an apartment building centered in the frame. Signs are in Polish and English.
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Poles observe a truck draped in the American flag in besieged Warsaw.
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Two nurses tend to a sick and wounded Polish woman in the besieged city of Warsaw.
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Wide view of religious statue. The wings are broken off, lying on the ground.
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Two Polish women look at the destruction of an apartment building in besieged Warsaw.
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A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika, mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her... The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw: 1939 Siege; 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, pp.20-21.]
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A group of Polish women pray on their knees before a large crucifix hanging outside an old wooden church that had been bombed by German aircraft a day earlier. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "The entire right wing of the building had been blown away, and where this section had been was an enormous crater, thirty feet across and fifteen feet deep. The rest of the building was still standing. A young Catholic priest with a serene face showed us about. Luckily, he said, they had heard the alarm for an air attack and he managed to get all his parishioners out of the church before the bomb struck." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw 1939 Siege, 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, p. 22]
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A group of Polish women pray on their knees before a large crucifix hanging outside an old wooden church that had been bombed by German aircraft a day earlier. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "The entire right wing of the building had been blown away, and where this section had been was an enormous crater, thirty feet across and fifteen feet deep. The rest of the building was still standing. A young Catholic priest with a serene face showed us about. Luckily, he said, they had heard the alarm for an air attack and he managed to get all his parishioners out of the church before the bomb struck." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw 1939 Siege, 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, p. 22]
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A Polish girl holding her dog in her arms views the destruction wrought by German air raids during the siege of Warsaw.
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Wide view of Julien Bryan and solder amid rubble of besieged Warsaw.
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Wide view of soldier holding up tattered banner amid rubble in besieged Warsaw.
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Julien Bryan's driver stops Bryan from waving to a crowd of Polish spectators in besieged
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A group of Polish women stare ahead in front of a bombed out building in besieged Warsaw.
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Wounded German POWs rest in a makeshift hospital in besieged Warsaw.
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Civilians walk and bicycle past a business protected by sand bags in besieged Warsaw.
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View of an operating table in the bombed out maternity ward of the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration (one of Warsaw's largest hospitals).
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A Polish mother and child pose amidst the rubble on a street in Warsaw that had been bombed during the siege of the capital.
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Medium view of three mothers holding infants in laps, seated on floor of makeshift hospital.
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A Polish woman, Apolonia Wiktorzak, recieves her bread allotment in besieged Warsaw.
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A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid. Photographer Julien Bryan described the scene: "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her... The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw: 1939 Siege; 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, pp.20-21.]
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View from above of a Polish family performing their daily chores amidst the remnants of their household furnishings that they have reassembled outside the charred ruins of their home in Warsaw. The boy with the hatchet is Albert Turowski, who later became a film actor in postwar Poland.
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A Polish woman sells cow's milk outside of the American Consolate in beseiged Warsaw.
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Two women sit amidst the ruins of their homes in Warsaw with a pile of bedding they were able to save.
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High angle wide view of bombarded buildings and rubble in besieged Warsaw.
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A young boy, Zygmunt Askienow, sits with his rescued pet canary among the ruins of his home in Warsaw after a German air raid. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "Not far from the center of town a bomb had hit an apartment house and exposed the first, second, and third floors. A boy was walking dazedly back and forth carrying the one possession he had found -- a canary in its cage. He walked up and down over a pile of stones and bricks. Under the pile there were nine or ten bodies, so the neighbors told us, not yet recovered." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw 1939 Siege, 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, p. 24]
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Julien Bryan's interpreter explains to a Polish policeman that Bryan is an American photographer, not a German spy.
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View of a boarded up store in besieged Warsaw. The sign outside reads: "A black marketeer was here - He went to Bereza-Kartuska." Bereza - Kartuska was a Polish prison for political criminals that operated from 1934-1939.
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Two men unfurl a large American flag on the roof of the American Consulate.
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Aerial view of the American flag flying in front of the American Consulate in besieged Warsaw.
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Julien Bryan films an anti-Nazi propaganda poster affixed to a wall in besieged Warsaw.
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View of a destroyed streetcar on a bomb damaged street in besieged Warsaw.
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Roof-top view over tree tops in besieged Warsaw, fires visible in distance.
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Under the supervision of Polish soldiers, elderly religious Jews dig anti-tank trenches to impede the German invasion.
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"The face of suffering Poland:" a woman killed when the Germans bombed her apartment building.
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Photographer and filmaker Julien Bryan takes pictures of corpses during the siege of Warsaw.
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Men and women pile sand bags outside on the base of the American consulate in Warsaw to protect it from German bombs.
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Polish refugees leave Warsaw on a horse-drawn wagon loaded with their personal property during the German siege of the capital.
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Photographer Julien Bryan comforts a ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika, whose older sister was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her... The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw: 1939 Siege; 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, pp.20-21.]
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Two Polish women look at the destruction of an apartment building in besieged Warsaw.
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A Polish Catholic Priest removes religious iconography from a destoyed church - including a statue of the Virgin Mary and a portrait of Pope Pius XII.
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Pedestrians cross a bridge during the siege of Warsaw; one Polish man in the center carries bedding on a bicycle.
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Interior view of the destroyed Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration. one of Warsaw's largest hospitals.
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Polish civilians and a soldier loiter about an automobile [possibly Julien Bryan's car] in besieged Warsaw.
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View of [what is probably the casing of a German bomb] lying next to a pile of bricks in besieged Warsaw.
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Close view of document or cloth banner held unfurled by two individuals.
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An American flag hangs outside the shattered window of the American embassy in Warsaw during the siege of the capital.
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View of a plaster wall in besieged Warsaw that has been riddled by machine gun fire.
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View of a bombed out apartment building in the besieged city of Warsaw.
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View from interior looking out of war torn building in besieged Warsaw.
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View of an operating table in the bombed out maternity ward of the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration (one of Warsaw's largest hospitals).
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Polish citizens look at The Evening Express. It says: "The United States enters the block against Germany. Today England and France began the war with all their forces on land - sea - and air. America will not remain neutral."
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Patient with head heavily bandaged in a hospital bed in besieged Warsaw.
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Aerial view of the American flag flying in front of the American Consulate in besieged Warsaw.
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A crowd of Polish spectators surround military vehicles on a street in Poland.
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American photographer Julien Bryan films a scene duing the siege of Warsaw. He stands atop a barricade of paving stones that had been erected to slow the advance of the German army.
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Polish civilians and soldier walk through defenses built during the Siege of Warsaw to slow the advance of the German army.
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Polish civilians and soldiers evacuate the wounded in besieged Warsaw.
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Swastikas hang from a building in Berlin 1939. [This image from Germany was found in the P-20-1939 contact book]
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Wide view of Polish streets. Man in foreground carries large picture frame on his back. Crowd of civilians in background.
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Polish women and children venture into bombed-out and besieged Warsaw to find wood for fuel.
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A Polish mother and baby walk through the bombed out streets of besieged Warsaw.
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Stacks of crucifixes lie against the brick wall of a destroyed church or cemetery structure in Warsaw.
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Father Wlodarczyk tries to clean and repair a bombed-out church in the besieged city of Warsaw.
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A Polish family picks up the pieces of the wreckage of a bombed out home in the besieged city of Warsaw.
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A young boy sits next to the corpse of his mother who was killed when a German airplane dropped bombs on them while their were digging for potatoes.
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A Polish family performs their daily chores amidst the remnants of their household furnishings that they have reassembled outside the charred ruins of their home in Warsaw.
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An elderly Polish woman poses with two silver spoons and a pair of scissors, all that remained of her home after it was destroyed in a German air raid during the siege of Warsaw. The woman's name is Mrs. Jaworska. Julien Bryan later learned that she died in 1940.
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Nurses care for infants in a makeshift maternity ward in besieged Warsaw.
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A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika, mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little ten-year old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of the dead. The woman was her older sister. The child had never before seen death and couldn't understand why her sister would not speak to her... The child looked at us in bewilderment. I threw my arm about her and held her tightly, trying to comfort her. She cried. So did I and the two Polish officers who were with me..." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw: 1939 Siege; 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, pp.20-21.]
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An elderly Polish woman looks out the shattered window of her apartment in Warsaw, where the remnant of a lace curtain hangs next to a statue of the Virgin Mary.
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Two young Polish boys read a Polish edition of a Mickey Mouse Sunday colored supplement while standing among the ruins of a building in Warsaw.
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Polish men march past the Great Theatre in Warsaw to dig anti-tank trenches against the German Army.
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The corpse of a Polish victim of a German air raid lies on the ground in besieged Warsaw.
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A Polish mother and daughter flee the besieged city of Warsaw with bedding and other essential household items.
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A bombed out home in the besieged capital of Poland - only the chimney and stove remain relatively intact.
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Polish woman and children forage for potatoes in the besieged city of Warsaw.
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"Food warehouses set afire by incendiary bombs" in besieged Warsaw. Caption from Bryan's book "Siege."
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Extreme wide view of bombarded building. Polish workers and civilians gather amid rubble.
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A young boy sits among the ruins of his home in Warsaw after it was destroyed during a German air raid.
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Poles dig trenches in Warsaw to protect the capital against German invasion.
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Two Polish mothers pose with their newborn infants during the siege of Warsaw.
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Polish doctors and nurses look at the damage to their hospital, The Transfiguration of the Lord, following its bombing during the siege of Warsaw.
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Under the supervision of Polish soldiers, elderly religious Jews dig anti-tank trenches to impede the German invasion.
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Two Polish women stand horrified after the destruction of their homes by the Germans - in the foreground is the corpse of one of the women killed in the air raid.
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Polish women bow their heads and kneel in prayer after the destruction of their church in besieged Warsaw.
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Polish civilians dig an anti-tank trench and plant street car rails in the ground on a street in Warsaw to slow the advance of the German army.
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Crater left after explosion from German bombing during the siege of Warsaw, 1939.
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Four Polish women view with anguish the bodies of those killed in a field in Warsaw, where they were digging for potatoes during the siege of the capital. In the words of photographer Julien Bryan, "As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machine-gun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow." [Source: Bryan, Julien. "Warsaw: 1939 Siege; 1959 Warsaw Revisited." Warsaw, Polonia, 1959, pp.20-21.]
Julien Bryan collection
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Collection consists of Julien Bryan's United States passport; scrapbook of newspaper clippings; and announcements and reviews of Julien Bryan's "Nazi Germany" traveling lecture; an envelope of duplicate newspaper clippings on "Siege" (of Warsaw); and a scrapbook of articles written on Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw" film and book.