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01:43:40 (B-1185) V-E Day Celebrations, Hanover-Hameln, Germany, May 9, 1945. LSs, British, French, and US flags flying above church entrance. LSs, truckloads of Dutch DPs moving to and away from camera. Dutch DPs gathered in open field. Young child waves Dutch flag. MSs, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf Regt, parading through streets of Hameln. MSs, CUs, Dutch displaced persons load aboard freight trains. SEQ: Detachments ...

US Army soldiers receiving the news that the war is over (staged). Liberators listening to field radio and learning about the end of the war (staged). Men jumping for joy and drinking liquor. Men removing tarp from supply and covering cannon, writing in white chalk: "7 May 1945 So Long Berlin, Hello Tokyo." In small German town, mayor telling group of women and children that the war is over. People/child ...

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 ...

Huge crowds in Parliament Square in London. Flags of the victorious nations fly from the Office of Works building. Shots of the people in the crowd, some of whom hold British flags. Police attempt to keep back the crowds, which surge to surround a vehicle carrying American soldiers. They are followed by a parade and a double-decker bus trying to get through the crowd. People climb up on the railings ...

01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and ...

02:01:20 (B-1236) Displaced Persons, near Haganow, Germany, May 10, 1945. CU, woman cuts man's hair. SEQ: Men, women, and children of camp engaged in activities such as sewing, resting, and playing. These are probably Roma. SEQ: Flag-raising ceremony at the camp in which fourteen different nationalities participated. CUs, DPs parading wth flags of each nation. 02:04:35 (LIB 6555 or LIB 6565?) V-E Day, ...

Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march ...

Swansong 1945 brings together hundreds of letters, diary extracts and autobiographical accounts to chronicle four days in 1945: 20th April, Hitler's last birthday, 25th April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe, 30th April, the day Hitler committed suicide, and 8th May, the day of the German surrender. Side by side in these pages, we encounter civilians fleeing on foot to the west, ...

This unbound volume was produced by Yad Vashem in 1966 to mark remembrance day for the Holocaust and Heroism, and was designed for use in schools. It contains photographs depicting the rise of Nazism; the destruction and desecration of synagogues in Vienna, 1938; the Warsaw Ghetto; Yellow Stars; Lodz; Dachau; partisans and the Jewish Brigade.

VE Day in Wiesbaden, Germany (April 19, 1945). MCUs, long line of Russian displaced persons, marching and carrying Stalin's picture and red flags (with inscription in Russian). Speeches in courtyard (slates indicated date of February 24, 1945), women marching. Bomb damage, town streets, ruins, civilians & military, US military jeeps passing by. Fast aerial shot of road crowded with German prisoners ...

May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last in Europe as, one half hour before midnight, the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in Europe is officially over. If you were in Paris, it had ended nine months before, and if you were in Belsen or Dachau concentration camp, it ended with ...

Ernu Homanye-Grytze was born in 1909 in Hungary. His youth was disrupted by World War I (1914-1918.) His family was constantly on the move and life was desperate. He grew up with little education. He would sketch on odd bits of available paper and showed artistic skill at an early age. Ernu later received some training at various European schools. Ernu eventually opened a studio in Paris. After the ...

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 ...

Airplanes parked. Plane taxis away from parking area, passes camera. CU, red nose, parked planes. Strafing train, German town. MCU, German ranking officers climb aboard plane. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's plane taking off. Nose of aircraft in FG, formation flies overhead. Strafing on road, strafing parked aircraft. (4/19/45 366 FG 391st SQ RAFAEL) German officers awaiting air evacuation to England. They ...

Carl de Brouwer, a Belgian banker manager, and his wife Denise offered refuge to two Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Between late 1942 and September 1944, the de Brouwers sheltered 6-year-old Adrien Sapcaru and 12-year-old Monique Mogoulsky in their private home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. Monique was the daughter of Carl's former co-worker at the bank in Ghent; ...

Holocaust research expanded enormously in recent decades and consists by now of a series of sub-domains. Nevertheless, the central domain was and remains the domain of “the core period”: the years of the Nazi regime (1933-1945) and of the regimes of Nazi Germany’s close allies and satellite countries. In this treatise Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, ...