USHMM Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff

Excerpts from private film collections of prewar Jewish life

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A glimpse into the lives of individuals who were soon swept into the destruction of the war. (28:45 minutes) Part One of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today -- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conveys private domestic life and everyday activities with a great deal of emotional power, especially when paired with narration about the fates of those pictured. The sixty-minute compilation is comprised of three chapters featuring: 1) prewar Jewish life in Europe; 2) life inside Nazi Germany; and 3) liberation of the camps and the return to life.

Excerpts from private film collections: American soldiers encounter Nazi atrocities at liberation

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The Nazi concentration camps shocked the battle-hardened young men and women in the US military who encountered them in 1945. American soldiers and nurses shot these amateur films using handheld cameras. Eyewitness Films is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the special exhibition, American Witnesses. The video is a curated selection of private film footage from the Museum's Spielberg Film Archive, which collects, preserves, and provides access to important eyewitness documentation of World War II and the Holocaust. There is graphic content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Film List & Credits: Tony Brooke, US Army Signal Corps (USHMM, gift of the Family of Anthony S. Brooke) Major Sydney L. Burr, 388th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Forces (USHMM, gift of Jamie B. Russell) Colonel Alexander Zabin, 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group, US Army (USHMM, gift of Steven Zabin) Lieutenant Beatrice Wachter, 51st Field Hospital, US Army (USHMM, gift of Jack Stein) Sergeant Raymond S. Buch, 56th Armored Engineer Battalion, US Army (USHMM, gift of Robert Zimmer) Arthur Mainzer, Norman Krasna, US Army Air Forces Motion Picture Unit (USHMM, gift of Beth Krasna) Colonel Wilbur G. Dockum, 692nd Field Artillery Battalion, US Army (USHMM, gift of Pam S. Manix) Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Dixon, 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, US Army (USHMM, gift of Gordon Dixon)

Excerpts from private film collections of everyday life inside Nazi Germany

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Life under the Nazi regime from the inside (13:59 minutes) Part Two of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today-- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conveys private domestic life and everyday activities with a great deal of emotional power, especially when paired with narration about the fates of those pictured. The sixty-minute compilation is comprised of three chapters featuring: 1) prewar Jewish life in Europe; 2) life inside Nazi Germany; and 3) liberation of the camps and the return to life.

Excerpts from private film collections of liberating Nazi concentration camps and life in DP camps

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Films by American soldiers who first entered Nazi prison camps in the spring of 1945, and survivors rebuilding lives in DP camps. (19:49 minutes) Part Three of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today-- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conveys private domestic life and everyday activities with a great deal of emotional power, especially when paired with narration about the fates of those pictured. The sixty-minute compilation is comprised of three chapters featuring: 1) prewar Jewish life in Europe; 2) life inside Nazi Germany; and 3) liberation of the camps and the return to life.

Monitor programs from State of Deception exhibition

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Interactive video presentations from the Museum’s special exhibition, "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda," providing historical analysis of the Nazi propaganda films on Theresienstadt and the Warsaw ghetto. On the subject of Theresienstadt, curator Steve Luckert discusses film excerpts from "The Fuehrer Gives a City to he Jews" and Maurice Rossel's interview for Claude Lanzmann's SHOAH (14.25 minutes). Film director Raye Farr provides an analysis of several scenes in the Warsaw ghetto film and interprets the Nazi’s propaganda intent from a curator’s perspective, with particular reference to Josef Goebbels’ diary and the journals of ghetto inhabitants (10.8 minutes).

Video finding aid about Lwow

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Compilation of footage (produced earlier than HMM153) on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. ** Please see HMM153 for an updated version. **

Interviews with Holocaust witnesses, collaborators, and perpetrators

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A short video highlighting overseas interviews with witnesses, collaborators, and perpetrators created as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Oral History program. The 12 minute video combining excerpts of four interviews, three in Polish and one in Lithuanian with a convicted member of a killing squad, has had a wide and powerful impact. 1. Stefan Kucharek, Polish engine driver, shuttled deportation trains between the local railway station and the gate of Treblinka killing center, Poland 1943 2. Aleksandra Nizio and Wiktoria Salega, Polish sisters, as young girls witnessed German mass killing of Jews at Trawniki Camp, Poland, 1943 3. Juozas Aleksynas, Member of 12th Lithuanian Police Battalion employed in German mass shootings of Jews, Belarus 1941

Representations of the Jew in Nazi German Propaganda

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Eight archival film segments compiled for a summer staff seminar in 2008. The production was also created as a possible program related to the Musuem's propaganda initiative. Segments include: Goebbels, February 10, 1933 [01:17] "Kaufmann, nicht Haendler" (1933/1936) [02:40] Goebbels, UFA newsreel 1935 [01.04] "Der Ewige Jude" (1940) [07:25] "Juden, Lause, Wanzen" (1942) [01:25] "Kampf dem Fleckfieber" (1942) [01:30] Warsaw ghetto, unfinished film (1942) [12:20] Propaganda film team in Theresienstadt (1942) [01:00]

Highlights from the Film and Video Archive in the year 2006

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Orphans 5 Presentation, SC Julien Bryan Collection Orthodox Jews in the Jewish quarter of Krakow, 1936. Old market square and synagogue. Close-ups of Jewish boys. 3:05 minutes, Silent Stanley Baker Collection This collection consists of amateur film shot by members of an American family who were living in Vienna when the Germans entered Austria in 1938. One clip shows jubilant crowds celebrating the Anschluss. Another sequence documents the damage done to Jewish shops immediately after the German takeover and shows Helen Baker as she is prevented from entering a Jewish shop by an Austrian member of the SA. 3:55 minutes, Silent Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Paula Biren Paula Biren and her family lived in the Łódź ghetto from 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. In this clip she relates the agonizing choice she was forced to make about whether her family should attempt to hide from the Germans or travel on a special transport organized by Jewish Council chairman Rumkowski. 4:15 minutes, English Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Heinz Schubert Heinz Schubert was Otto Ohlendorf's adjutant in Einsatzgruppe D. He was convicted and sentenced to death after the war but his sentence was commuted to ten years in prison. Lanzmann filmed the interview without Schubert's knowledge, and in this clip he asks Schubert what he meant when he spoke at his trial about his "burdened soul." Schubert answers that anyone's soul would feel burdened if they found themselves among a group of people who must be executed, without knowing specifically why. In the abstract, Schubert says, the reason is that Hitler had decreed that they must die. Schubert's wife interrupts to insist that her husband did not participate directly in executions. 1:40 minutes, German Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Benjamin Murmelstein Benjamin Murmelstein, a controversial figure in Holocaust history, was a rabbi and leader in the Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien) and later acted as the last head of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt. Here Murmelstein complains that after the war everyone claimed to be part of the resistance, complete with hidden weapons and clandestine radio stations. 2:30 minutes, German Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Ruth Elias Ruth Elias, a Czech Jew, gave birth to a child in Auschwitz. While the baby perished at the hands of Josef Mengele, Elias survived and was liberated from a labor camp in Leipzig. She tells the story of how she met her husband while giving a concert performance for the SS early in 1945. 5:30 minutes, English Tony Brooke Collection Anthony "Tony" S. Brooke was a U.S. Army Signal Corps cameraman and a member of George Stevens' film unit. This film clip from original Kodachrome shows American GIs assisting survivors into Red Cross ambulances at Buchenwald during liberation. 1:10 minutes, Silent Oral History Interview with Budd Schulberg Budd Schulberg, 92, wrote the novel What Makes Sammy Run? and the screenplay for the film On the Waterfront. As an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he served in a special unit of the O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services, a precursor of the C.I.A.) responsible for capturing film evidence against the major Nazi war criminals in 1945. This oral history documents his unique experience heading the team that rushed to assemble the Nazis' own film record of their crimes. The resulting film, The Nazi Plan, was shown in the courtroom in Nuremberg. In this clip, Schulberg discusses how his search for damning film evidence produced by the SS ended in frustration when he discovered that the film had been destroyed shortly before he arrived. 3:35 minutes, English

Highlights from the Film and Video Archive in the year 2007

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Rita Wolman Stern & Deborah Wolman Rosen Collection The first two segments illustrate street scenes in Warsaw in 1932, including the Grand Theater, Nalewki Street in the Jewish quarter, and the Mirkowska Hala market. The final clip shows the cameraman Robert Wolman's family at a park in Warsaw. 3:48 minutes, Silent Judy Simon Collection Dr. Benjamin Gasul, the donor's father, shot this footage on 16mm Kodachrome (color) film just a few months before World War II began. This excerpt shows people on the streets of Warsaw's Jewish quarter as they enjoy the sunny weather and clown for the camera. 2:36 minutes, Silent Russian Archives of Documentary Films & Photographs Ilya Ehrenburg, the famous writer and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, visits Soviet soldiers at the front in 1945. 1:03 minutes, Silent Bundesarchiv This German newsreel shows Allied soldiers captured by the Germans in Greece in May 1941. The camera work is intended to highlight the different ethnic types who are fighting against Germany; the commentary (not available on the DVD) states that many members of the British army are Jews who fled Germany and then turned against their native country. 1:27 minutes, Silent Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Tadeusz Pankiewicz Pankiewicz was a Pole who operated a pharmacy within the walls of the Krakow ghetto. He helped Jews by providing them with food and a place to hide. Here, Pankiewicz says that his was the only pharmacy run by a non-Jew within any ghetto. It was open day and night and he lived on the premises. After the liquidation of the ghetto, Jewish work battalions came from the Plaszow camp to buy food. He explains the division of the ghetto into ghetto "A", where those able to work lived, and ghetto "B", where those Jews who were to be liquidated resided. 2:38 minutes, German Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection Interview with Gertrude Schneider Gertrude Schneider lived in Vienna with her family until they were deported to Riga, Latvia. In this clip she describes the arrival in Riga and her narrow escape from the gas vans. 5:43 minutes, English Bundesarchiv SS men and prisoners, wearing Star of David badges, filming a scene in a rail siding for the 1942 German Propaganda Kompanie film about Theresienstadt. This film is much lesser known than the 1944 propaganda film about Theresienstadt. 2:46 minutes, Silent Bundesarchiv This footage adds to the Archive's holdings on the trial of the so-called 20th of July plotters who attempted to assassinate Hitler. Roland Freisler, the notorious president of the People's Court, enters the courtroom. Conspirator Hans-Georg Klamroth, a salesman whose only involvement in the plot consisted of passive knowledge, appears before the court. Freisler asks Klamroth whether it is clear to him that his decision not to act once he learned of the plot amounted to treason. The second man who appears is Hans-Bernd August Gustav von Haeften, an official in the foreign office. He tells Freisler that he lost whatever sense of loyalty he had once had toward Hitler, who he considered the "executor of evil in history." 2:53 minutes, German Russian Archives of Documentary Films & Photographs The actor Solomon Mikhoels and other prominent members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee meet in Columnar Hall in Moscow in 1944. Mikhoels reads from a statement, which is applauded by the attendees. Members of the committee, including David Bergelson, Mikhoels, Abraham Sutzkever, and Ilya Ehrenburg, sign the statement. 2:30 minutes, Silent Mara Vishniac & the International Center of Photography The renowned photographer Roman Vishniac shot this footage of men participating in ORT training activities in Marseilles in 1939. The men work in a greenhouse, lay irrigation pipes, attend classes, and perform other tasks. 4:01 minutes, Silent

Compilation for "The Nazi Rise to Power" film

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Research edits for the Permanent Exhibition monitor 4.08 The Nazi Rise to Power. Compilation includes still photographs and step-printed footage.

Deadly Medicine special exhibition monitors 2, 5, 6, 7, 12

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AV monitors 2, 5, 6, 7, 12 exhibited as part of "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 2004 to May 29, 2006. The exhibition focused on the physicians, psychiatrists, anthropologists, public health officials, and others who supported and, ultimately, implemented the Nazi racial eugenics program that culminated in the Holocaust. 01:00:00 Monitor 2: Weimar Clinic 01:01:30 Monitor 5: Nazi Racial Science 01:06:35 Monitor 6: Anthropology in the Field 01:09:59 Monitor 7: Building Public Support 01:13:28 Monitor 12: Testimony

Compilation for Representations of the 'Other' at West Chester University

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Compilation of Nazi propaganda films in the SSFVA collection shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr at the Representations of the 'Other' conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania in March 2007. Kaufmann nicht Haendler [Merchant, not Peddler], 1933/1936: Story #3294, Film ID #2504A. To 01:02:37 Juden, Laeuse, Wanzen [Jews, Lice, Bugs], 1941: Story #3295, Film ID #2504A. To 01:04:55 Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus], 1942: Story #3297-3300, Film ID #2504A. To 01:06:32 Warsaw Ghetto, 1942: Film ID #2270. To 01:22:41

Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto special exhibition monitors

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AV monitors produced by Wentworth Films exhibited as part of "Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from November 21, 1997 to October 3, 1999.

Liberation special exhibition "Testimony" monitor

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"Testimony" monitor with interviews exhibited as part of "Liberation 1945" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 9, 1995 to May 8, 1996.

4 video programs about the Holocaust: war crimes trials

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #1 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial Second floor (2.08) - Other Trials

Bookburning special exhibition monitors 1-5

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AV monitors 1-5 exhibited as part of "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 30, 2003 to October 13, 2003.

The story of Gerda Weissmann Klein

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Coproduced by the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute, this Academy Award-winning documentary relates the harrowing story of Gerda Weissmann Klein and her journey of survival and remembering both before and after the war.

Holocaust survivor stories

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Documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivors who lived in concentration camps and Nazi occupied territories and the American soldiers who liberated them, bearing witness to Adolf Hitler's murderous rampage.

Liberation special exhibition monitors E1-G

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Monitors E1-G exhibited as part of "Liberation 1945" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 9, 1995 to May 8, 1996.

1936 Olympics special exhibition oral histories master tape

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Oral history monitor exhibited as part of "NAZI OLYMPICS, Berlin 1936" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from July 19, 1996 to July 27, 1997.

Flight and Rescue special exhibiton monitors

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AV monitors exhibited as part of "Flight and Rescue" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 4, 2000 to October 21, 2001.

Bookburning special exhibition monitor 1

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AV monitor 1 (keystone) exhibited as part of "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 30, 2003 to October 13, 2003.

American Responses to the Holocaust interactive monitors

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Interactive audiovisual monitors shown on the fourth and second floors in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". This version is clean, with no titles and no menu button. 4.35a&b - American Responses 1933-1939 01:00:21 Persecution Begins (1933-1939) 01:06:58 Bookburnings 01:10:27 1936 Olympics 01:15:41 November Pogroms: "Kristallnacht" 01:21:31 Search for Refuge 2.16 - American Responses 1939-1945 01:29:41 First News of Extermination 01:35:36 War Against the Jews 01:41:47 American Jewish Responses 01:47:28 Attempts at Rescue 01:53:01 Encountering the Camps

2 edited programs about the Holocaust: Auschwitz survivors (sound) and Nuremberg trials (video)

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Third floor (3.34) - Voices from Auschwitz (audio theater) Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #1 (1945)

5 revised video programs about the Holocaust: exiles, propaganda, Roma, the others, and collaborators

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). These five monitors were revised in 1993: 1. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety/Exiles 2. Fourth floor (4.13) - Propaganda 3. Fourth floor (4.24a) - Roma 4. Fourth floor (4.24b) - Others 5. Third floor (3.15) - Collaborators (Mobile Killing Squads - Einsatzgruppen)

Liberation special exhibition monitors A-D2

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Monitors A-D2 exhibited as part of "Liberation 1945" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 9, 1995 to May 8, 1996.

2 video programs about the Holocaust: Nuremberg and other war crimes trials

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second floor (2.08b) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08c) - Other Trials

6 video programs about the Holocaust: Kristallnacht, children, orientation to USHMM Learning Center

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.23a) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23b) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23c) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23d) - The Night of Broken Glass Second floor (2.09e) - Children: After Liberation Second floor - Learning Center Orientation

4 video programs about the Holocaust: ghettos

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Third floor (3.08a) - Ghettos: Łódź Third floor (3.07) - Ghettos: Warsaw Third floor (3.08b) - Ghettos: Kovno Third floor (3.09) - Ghettos: Other Ghettos

7 video progams about the Holocaust: Jewish responses, the exodus, DP camps, the beginning of World War II, Western Europe, children, and US soldier at liberation

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.17a) - Jewish Responses Second floor (2.11) - Exodus Second floor (2.10) - Return to Life Fourth floor (4.30) - WWII Begins Third floor (3.03) - In Western Europe Second floor (2.09e) - Children after Liberation Elevator (1.03) - Soldier Speaks

5 video programs about the Holocaust: prewar Jewish life

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.07) - Life Before the Holocaust (all) 01:02:00 - 01:04:47 North Africa 01:04:52 - 01:07:03 Southeastern Europe 01:07:08 - 01:10:18 Soviet Union 01:10:21 - 01:20:04 Eastern Europe 01:20:09 - 01:27:12 Western & Central Europe

7 video programs about the Holocaust: liberation and encountering the camps

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). This master tape is dated March 19, 1993. Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: US Army - Nordhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: US Army - Nordhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald Fourth floor (4.01) - Americans Encounter the Camps

1 video program about the Holocaust: Eichmann trial

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Audiovisual monitor shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second flor (2.08d) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial

Antisemitism film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

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4.22 Antisemitism. Antisemitism film with archival photographs, footage, and interviews shown on the fourth floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". This is the original (1993) version without captions. USHMM made revisions to the Antisemitism film in May 1995 and again in 2000 - for access, refer to the USHMM Institutional Archives.

7 video progams about the Holocaust: medical experiments, Nazi propaganda, soldier at liberation, losing citizenship, Babi Yar, executions and suicides, and St. Louis ship

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). 1. Third floor (3.37a) - Medical Experiments 2. Fourth floor (4.13) - Nazi Propaganda (Der Stuermer) 3. Elevator (1.03) - A Soldier Speaks 4. Fourth floor (4.17) - From Citizens to Outcasts 5. Third floor (3.16) - Babi Yar 6. Third floor (3.37b) - Executions and Suicides 7. Fourth floor (4.28) - Voyage of the St. Louis

8 video progams about the Holocaust: rescue, collaborators, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Nazi takeover, rescued and hidden children, Nazi terror and expansion

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second floor (2.04) - Courage to Rescue Third floor (3.15b) - Mobile Killing Squads - Accomplices Third floor (3.19) - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Fourth floor (4.09a) - Takeover of Power Second floor (2.09a) - Children: Rescued to England Fourth floor (4.09b)- The Terror Begins Second floor (2.09b) - Children: Hidden Children Fourth floor (4.18) - Expansion Without War

4 video progams about the Holocaust: propaganda, children, the Nazi police state, and deportations

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.13) - Power of Propaganda (see revised version on Laser Disk A) Second floor (2.09c) - Children: In Ghettos and Camps Fourth floor (4.26a) - Nazi Society/Police State Third floor (3.21) - Deportations

Excerpts from the Testimony film with survivor interviews

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Excerpts from the Testimony film shown on the second floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust".

7 video progams about the Holocaust: Terezin, bookburning, the camp system, safety, Einsatzgruppen, invasion of the Soviet Union, and resistance

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Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). 1. Third floor (3.06) - Theresienstadt 2. Fourth floor (4.12) - Bookburning 3. Third floor (3.28) - The Camp System 4. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety 5. Third floor (3.15) - Einsatzgruppen (see revised program on Film ID HMM142) 6. Third floor (3.14) - Invasion of the Soviet Union 7. Second floor (2.05) - Resistance

The Nazi Rise to Power film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

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4.08 The Nazi Rise to Power (with and without English subtitles/captions)

Carter Library archival footage

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Footage documenting the final report from the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust from the Carter Library. Footage used to produce the Commission's 20th Anniversary videotape (see HMM159).

Sephardi rabbis; Jewish schools, synagogues, customs

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Documentary film about the leading Balkan Sephardi rabbis of the time with rare footage of Jewish schools, residential quarters, synagogues, and cemeteries and a sampling of Sephardi religious customs. Selections of the 1929 film was obtained for a Collections Division-wide online exhibition called "Highlighting the Experience of Sephardi Jews" featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website.

Clips from WETA filming of the USHMM in 1993

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Compilation of footage from WETA's filming of the USHMM for their one-hour documentary "For the Living." The clips were prepared for the AV production of the Memorial Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff (HMM250).

Public television feature on the USHMM

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WETA's program on the development and construction of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum broadcast on public television in 1993.

John Christopher Bechtler Collection compilation

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Compilation of preserved footage from the John Christopher Bechtler Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during Raye Farr's presentation for the Cinematography of the Holocaust conference in Germany in 2004. Scenes include home movie footage of Arthur Kannenberg (Hitler's house manager), Nazi officials, Goering and his special trains, and other rare sequences.

USHMM compilation for AMIA panel presentation 2004

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Compilation of Museum's archival footage screened at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN in 2004. The film was presented by Raye Farr and Regina Longo and shows segments from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including the Mogilev gassing footage from "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today."

DP camps compilation

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Compilaton containing footage of displaced persons camps from the SSFVA produced as research for the Museum's special exhibition on displaced persons called "Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951" on display from December 8, 1999 to May 21, 2000.

20th Anniversary of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust

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Compilation of footage and interviews documenting the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust, which was responsible for the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and celebrating its 20th anniversary in the year 2000. Production was screened during a Museum public program. Elie Wiesel leads the Presidential Commission as they travel to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Warsaw, and other locations in Poland. Among those participating: Miles Lerman, Chris Lerman, Sigmund Strochlitz, Benjamin Meed, Yaffa Eliach, Michael Berenbaum, Kitty Dukakis, Raul Hilberg. Their report is presented to President Jimmy Carter, and the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is undertaken. Stages of the museum's design and construction are seen, as are major figures in its creation: Architect James Freed, Council Chairman Harvey Meyerhoff, Miles Lerman, Albert Abramson, Jeshajahu Weinberg. President Bill Clinton speaks at the April 1993 opening of the museum.

Video documenting the tenth anniversary event at USHMM

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A video production documenting the USHMM event called "An American Mosaic" on April 29, 2003. The 15 minute film includes Sara Bloomfield, Ted Koppel, Police Chief Charles Ramsey, a firefighter whose son was killed on 9/11, teachers, survivors, and students.

USHMM Tribute to Liberators

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AV production honoring the role of liberators during the Holocaust shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2004 during the opening of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.

Julien Bryan Collection compilation

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Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a Museum public program on April 16, 2004. Scenes include: -Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, 1933 -Russia, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Warsaw, city center & Jewish quarter, 1936/37; Krakow, main market square, 1936/37 -Katowice (main city of Upper Silesia), Poland, 1936/37; Gdynia, Poland, 1936/37; Danzig, 1936/37; Warsaw, Poland 1936/37 -Polish countryside, 1939 -Warsaw, Poland, 1939 -Warsaw, Poland, 1939 -Warsaw, Poland, 1939 -Warsaw, Poland, 1939 -Warsaw, Poland, 1946 -Warsaw, Poland, 1946 -Austria, 1946 -Austria, DP camp near Linz, 1946/47 -New York harbor, USA, 1946/47

USHMM public programs: Eichmann Trial

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AV production shown at the Eichmann Trial public program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on February 12, 2002. Three clips from USHMM Film IDs 2036, 2039, and 2108 feature survivor testimonies about the Warsaw ghetto uprising and gassing experimentation, CUs of Eichmann, Abba Kovner's testimony, and Servatius questioning Eichmann.

USHMM Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski

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AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski on January 16, 2001 including excerpts from the Museum's Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection of outtakes from the film "Shoah". Clips from Film ID 3134 (RG-60.5006) include: 02:02:32-02:03:50 02:04:20-02:07:36 02:09:13-02:09:49 02:12:32-02:13:02 02:13:48-02:14:59 02:32:45-02:35:11 02:35:30-02:35:47

USHMM Memorial Tribute to Jeshajahu (Shaike) Weinberg

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AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Jeshajahu (Shaike) Weinberg on June 2, 2000.

USHMM compilation for AMIA Screening Night 2002

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Compilation of Museum's archival footage screened at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Boston, MA in 2002. The film was presented by Raye Farr and shows segments from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including the Greenland expedition [Zabin Collection] and Goering footage [Bechtler Collection].

Interviews regarding Sobibor Uprising

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Compilation of oral histories with survivors involved with the Sobibor uprising.

Arthur Kannenberg & Bechtler collection footage

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Edited compilation of amateur footage from the Bechtler collection documenting Arthur Kannenberg (Hitler's house manager) and other Nazi officials. Notable figures include: - Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland and Martin Mutschmann, Gauleiter of Saxony, enjoying fishing from a bridge - Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot - Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring with other Luftwaffe and military figures, including Galland, at what appeared to be the Wolfsschanze, Hitler's Führer Headquarters in Rastenberg - Reichsleiter Martin Bormann and Josef Grohé, Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen, at the Wolfsschanze - Luftwaffe and other Heer and Kriegsmarine officers, including Göring and Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch - WWI air aces Manfred von Richthofen and Göring, and probably Lothar von Richthofen (Manfred's younger brother), Max Immelmann, and Oswald Bölcke

Orientation to the USHMM

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Orientation Film presents an overview of the Museum's exhibitions and memorials and is shown throughout the day in one of the theaters. (with and without subtitles)

Homosexuals in Nazi Germany

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Documentary film about the gay survivors of Nazi Germany, including interviews with three gay survivors. As many as 15,000 homosexuals were sent to concentration camps, targeted by the Nazis as subversives. The "A" -- which stood for "Arschficker" [Assfucker] -- refers to a symbol that pre-dated the pink triangle which gay prisoners were forced to wear. *** Copies available with and without English subtitles ***

Nuremberg: Medical Case No. 1 - Trial of Karl Brandt & others

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Short film produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive for screening at a medical conference in Berlin on December 9, 1996. Final Edit dated November 21, 1996. Audio Only from RG-60.2210: Roll call over opening title. From RG-60.2376: HAS, courtroom. Audio Only from RG-60.2210: "The secretary will call the roll of the defendants..." [barely audible]. Intertitle. From RG-60.2376: Secretary calls "Karl Brandt". Audio Only from RG-60.2210: Defendants names are called, including Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Gerhard Rose, Siegried Ruff, Hans Wolfang Romberg, Victor Brack, and Herta Oberhauser. Over intertitle and still photographs of the Palace of Justice. Image begins at 01:00:42: Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, is questioned in the dock and pleads not guilty. 01:00:54 CUs of Karl Brandt (from RG-60.2376). Three other defendants plead not guilty. 01:01:20 Audio Only, Gen. Telford Taylor, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, begins opening statement for prosecution on December 9, 1946. Over intertitle. Image begins at 01:01:25. Wide shot of bench. MS, Taylor: "...For them, it is far more important that these incredible events be established by clear and public proof so that no one can ever doubt that they were fact and not fable and that this court...as the voice of humanity stamp these acts and the ideas which engendered them as barbarous and criminal...." Audio continues, showing CUs of defendants (from RG-60.2376). MS, Taylor (from RG-60.2210). 01:03:15 From RG-60.2353: Taylor continues opening statement for the prosecution. Views from rear of Taylor addressing the court. Chart showing relations between government and defendants posted on the court screen. 01:04:19 Pan of the dock and their lawyers in front as Taylor indicts particular defendants. 01:05:38 From RG-60.2436: December 9, 1946, Telford Taylor in the opening statement for the prosecution, details high altitude, low pressure experiments at Dachau. Clips of still photographs used as evidence showing victims of high altitude experiments. "The victims who did not die in the course of such experiments, surely wished that they had. A long report written in July 1942 by Rascher, and by the defendants Ruff and Romberg, describes an experiment on a former delicatessen clerk, who was given an oxygen mask and raised in the chamber to an atmospheric elevation of over 47,000 feet, at which point the mask was removed and a parachute descent was simulated. The report describes the victim's reactions-"spasmodic convulsions," "agonal convulsive breathing," "clonic convulsions and groans," "yells aloud," "convulses arms and legs," "grimaces, bites his tongue," "does not respond to speech," "gives the impression of someone who is completely out of his mind."" 01:06:39 From RG-60.2306: December 20, 1946, Jadwiga Dzido, former prisoner, Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp, shows scarred leg. Dr. Leo Alexander explains the medical experiment performed on her at Ravensbrueck. 01:07:21 From RG-60.2429: December 9, 1946, Telford Taylor continues opening statement regarding sterilization experiments. Views of the dock and Taylor delivering from the podium. "In the sterilization experiments conducted by the defendants at Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, and other concentration camps, the destructive nature of the Nazi medical program comes out most forcibly. The Nazis were searching for methods of extermination, both by murder and sterilization, of large population groups, by the most scientific and least conspicuous means. They were developing a new branch of medical science which would give them the scientific tools for the planning and practice of genocide. The primary purpose was to discover an inexpensive, unobtrusive, and rapid method of sterilization which could be used to wipe out Russians, Poles, Jews, and other people." 01:08:18 From RG-60.2359: Taylor, from rear in courtroom, continues opening statement regarding experiments in yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, cholera, and diphtheria conducted at Natzweiler and Buchenwald, naming defendants' involvement. He also discusses the gathering of skeletons for research and other "anthropological experiments" at Strasbourg, as well as euthanasia. 01:09:26 Taylor details Count 3 - Crimes Against Humanity. Audio continues over slow pan of defendants in dock wearing headphones (from RG-60.2372). 01:10:10 From RG-60.2371: July 19, 1947, Final statement by Karl Brandt. 01:10:28 From RG-60.2368: July 19, 1947, Judge Beals announces that the evidence is concluded. 01:10:52 From RG-60.0007: August 20, 1947, Sentencing of Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Gerhard Rose, Viktor Brack. 01:12:44 Rolling text describing sentencing in Medical Case. Includes quotes from trial proceedings.

Testimony film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

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2.15 Testimony (with and without subtitles) Testimony film of interviews with Holocaust survivors shown on the second floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". Includes oral histories with the following witnesses: Frank Bleichman Sam Goldberg Emanuel Tanay Tina Strobos Chudson (Tineke Buchter) Agnes Adachi Helen Waterford Norbert Wollheim Leo Bretholz Paulette Fink Stefa Kupfer (Sarah M. Kupfer) Abe Malnik Cecilie Klein-Pollak Agi Rubin (Agate Rubin) Lilly Malnik Gerda Weissman Klein Ruth Webber Bella Tovey Bart Stern Shony Braun (Alexander Braun) Siegfried Halbreich Esther Raab Chaim Engel Selma W. Engel Kurt Klein

Liberator clips

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Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Zabin Collection - Omaha Beach in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2612, 01:04:49 to 01:12:45) Zabin Collection - Liberation of Dachau; medical unit in color, b/w (USHMM Film ID 2460, 01:00:00 to 01:09:30)

Liberation of Buchenwald; VE Day in Paris

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Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include films taken by cameraman Arthur Mainzer: Liberation of Buchenwald, April 16, 1945 in color (USHMM Film ID 849, 07:01:12 to 07:04:00) Soldiers near Torgau and Buchenwald in color (USHMM Film ID 850, 08:07:59 to 08:10:16) VE celebration in Paris on May 8, 1945 in b/w (USHMM Film ID 2513, 04:13:41 to 04:17:34) Arthur Mainzer (1923- ) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces with Captain Ellis Carter when they heard about Buchenwald and drove there by jeep on April 13, 1945. Mainzer and Carter filmed conditions at the camp on Kodak color film stock using two handheld 16mm film cameras. The footage was then sent to headquarters in London for processing.

Cinematography of the Holocaust presentation: March of Time outtakes

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Compilation of March of Time outtakes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Leslie Swift at the Cinematography of the Holocaust conference in Budapest, Hungary in March 2007.

Lwow compilation: video finding aid

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Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian land from Polish landlords Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 539 R.2 (1940) (in 00:14:59 out 00:23:40 of original tape) 01:15:05 to 01:25:15 RG-60.3119 Soviet Lvov Near the end - Brigidka prison. Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 1699 R.1 (1940) (in 36:04 out 00:46:06 of original tape) 01:25:16 to 01:27:39 RG-60.0267 Lemberger/Lvov massacre; Jews arrested 07/1941 Bundesarchiv DW 566/29/41 R.1&2 (in 02:42:45 out 02:44:59 of original tape) 01:27:40 to 01:28:29 RG-60.0348 Lemberg/Lvov massacre 07/1941 Bundesarchiv DW 568/31/41 R.2 (in 02:47:48 out 02:48:28 of Film ID 201) 01:28:30 to 01:29:03 RG-60.2417 Lvov, attack of Jews Excerpt from "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" NARA 111 M 7596 R.6 (1947) (in 05:48:26 out 05:48:50 of Film ID 67) 01:29:04 to 01:31:00 RG-60.0441 Lvov pogrom NARA 238.7 (1941) (in 01:01:20 out 01:04:55 of Film ID 402)

Nuremberg Trials film evidence

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Video presented during an evening program at USHMM on November 29, 2005 highlighting films presented during and about the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: "The Nazi Plan" (1945) and "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" (1947).

Liberator clips

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Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Russell Collection - Postwar destruction of Germany and liberation of Dachau in b/w (USHMM Film ID 2856, 01:06:39 to 01:20:16)

Liberator clips

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Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: US infantry; German civilians (April 1945) in color (USHMM Tape HMM106, 01:23:42 to 01:33:34) Nordhausen; Eisenhower at Ohrdruf (April 1945) in b/w (USHMM Tape HMM107, 01:22:48 to 01:31:17) Ebensee liberation (Summer 1945) in color (USHMM Film ID 513, 11:23:11to 11:27:11)

Liberator clips

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Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Liberation of Buchenwald; white flags; US infantry (April 1945) in color (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:00:13 to 01:04:56) 83rd Div, Ohrdruf patrols (April 6/7, 1945) in b/w (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:21:31 to 01:25:59) Dachau Concentration Camp - Star of David, chaplain, horse drawn wagons (May 1945) in b/w (USHMM Tape HMM109, 01:05:25 to 01:07:59)

The Nazi Plan, edited version

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Edited version of "The Nazi Plan" for screening at the Goethe Institut on November 29-30, 2005, in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's public program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called "Filmmakers for the Prosecution: Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg, and the Nuremberg Trial."

Julien Bryan Collection compilation

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Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr, Regina Longo, Russ Suniewick, and Sam Bryan for the Orphan 5 Film Symposium at the University of South Carolina in March 2006.

Compilation for Cinematography of the Holocaust

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Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection and other collections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr at the Cinematography of the Holocaust conference in Budapest, Hungary in March 2007. Clips include: Benjamin Murmelstein (12:37); Hermann Landau (5:53); Hansi Brand (24:06); Auschwitz (3:23); and Tom Veres (12:45).

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