Johannes Vosskamp (1896-1945) was a veteran of World War I and so were his brothers. It is unclear when he became a Nazi party member. In World War II, he was drafted at the age of 46 (ca. 1942) as part of "Organisation Todt" behind the lines. He was sent to Serbia and was declared "missing in action" at the end of the war in 1945.

(LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets. (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, ...

(LIB 5927) Congressional Group, Weimar, Germany, April 24, 1945. MSs, CUs, officers speaking to the Senators at Buchenwald concentration camp. MSs, Senators viewing stack of naked bodies. MS, Senator Alben W Barkley standing next to pile of bodies. MSs, black soldiers speaking with group of senators. VS, Gen Omar N. Bradley talking with the senators. Seq: Senatorial group is met by Lt Gen Walter B ...

Amateur footage taken by an American Jew, Joseph Shapiro, during a visit to relatives in Horodok, a Polish shtetl ocated between Minsk and Vilna. American travelers dressed in expensive clothes shake hands with villagers. The camera pans the landscape showing horse-drawn wagons, farms, trains resting on tracks, and local businesses (beer house "Piwiarnia"). 14:16:52 Children present flowers to visitors. ...

Hans Wolfgang Lindemann (a German) married Ethel McGloclin (an American) in Philadelphia in 1929. He had come to the US looking for work, but had a strong German family heritage and served in the German army in WWI as a radio operator. After his father died, the couple moved to Germany (Braunschweig), toured Europe, and started a family (Oda b. 1934 and Karin b. 1936). Wolfgang joined the German reserve ...

"Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Soviet writer, Marietta Shaginyan, biographer of Lenin, visits the Ukraine. Speech to Dykan'ka kolkhoz youth in the Poltava region of Ukraine (members of a collective farm group) in Russian (not certain of language of speech as this story is accompanied by voiceover naration in Ukrainian, and the original sound of the speech is not heard, and was perhaps never recorded). ...

Waterway, bridge in unknown location. EXT of church, painting on facade. City sights, mountains in BG. CUs young woman with a kitten. Train station, views of beautiful scenery from the train window, excursion. The rapids, tunnels, a waterfall, mountains, etc. 01:02:00 The young friends take turns on playground equipment, spinning, seesaw. They crowd into one automobile, and smile for the camera. 01:03:03 ...

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

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Morris Horn, M.D. served in Europe in WW2 as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps and died while serving his country. Dr. Morris Horn married Ruth Carlson Horn in the Commodore Hotel in NYC in August 1932 by Rabbi Albert Martin. Ruth (1913 - 1999) was a noted patron of the arts and innovator in Bridgeport, Connecticut's arts community. She was the daughter of William Carlson, an automobile industrialist, ...

Licco Max Haim (1910-2002), an amateur filmmaker, was asked by the military commander of the 4th Construction Company of the 1st (Jewish) Labor Battalion to make a film of their activities and deliver it to him. Licco did so, but managed to hide one 8mm roll (Film ID 4115), shot in the summer of 1941 to build a road in Lakatnik as part of the forced labor battalion. Most of the Jewish men in the unit ...

David Teitelbaum (1891-1972), an amateur photographer who was born in Wielopole, emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s and became a successful businessman. He would return to his hometown almost every year to visit his family, and in Summer 1938, he filmed his trip. He traveled on the SS Normandie, arriving back to the United States on August 1, 1938. In June or July 1939 he traveled to ...

Continuation of parade [in RG-60.1803 at 08:49 - probably 1949 Independence Day in Israel] with Israeli soldiers, a marching band, someone in the crowd holding an Israeli flag, airplane flyover, more defense forces. 12:19 Circular pan of harbor, clouds (Israel?). Moshe in suit steps down off of a ship. 12:50 Family members walk towards the camera, monkeys at zoo, children play on a swing. Women on ...

In 1936, Sol and Sylvia Horwitz traveled to their hometowns in Bessarabia and visited Paris, Berlin, Romania (Chernovitz, Falesht, Beltz, Tulcea, Ismail), and Vienna. They documented their journey on 8mm film and each kept a travel log, in which Sol discussed his growing anxiety and concern over the current state of his homeland, while Sylvia described the townspeople and their cultural customs. Sylvia ...

Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November ...

George Vasley (born Vasilevsky 1902-1977) was a civil engineer born in the Ukraine. He served in the Ukrainian National Army as a cavalry officer. He fled to Czechoslovakia in 1923 after the Russian Revolution. He married Elizabeth Buazdil (b. 1909) in 1933 in Slovakia. They had three children: Emma (b. 1934), George (b. 1936), and Helen (b. 1943). George was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Poland ...

Presidential elections for Jozef Tiso. Opening of a German scientific facility in Bratislava. Awards ceremony for soldiers who have returned from Poland, speech of Slovak president Jozef Tiso, military inspection. Inspection of Wehrmacht soldiers on Wenceslaus Square in Prague on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Protectorate. On the grandstand is President E. Hacha, German representatives, ...

Teil I. Missing titles at head. Hitler Youth (HJ) boys on boat, one looks through binoculars with ship captain. Boys exercise, perform calisthenics, and box in uniforms on deck. Swimming. Musical entertainment with guitar and accordion. 01:01:21 Boys in dress uniform visit a fountain on a plaza, probably in Rome, Italy. View overlooking city. The group visits ruins. 01:01:28 HJ boys in civilian dress ...

Sally (Salomon) and Erna (nee Marx) Isenberg and their three children, Artur, Helmut, and Norbert, lived in Saarbrücken (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Loerrach (Germany), and Vaduz (Liechtenstein). Artur came to the United States to attend Harvard University before 1938. The others immigrated in October 1938. The boys served their new country in WWII. Artur worked for the Office of War Information. ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...

This film features Claude Lanzmann's interview with Maurice Rossel, conducted in 1979 for Lanzmann's epic film "Shoah". Rossel was the Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Berlin. The central task of the delegates was to visit camps to control the observance of the Geneva Convention and the delivery of aid packages. In an official capacity, Rossel was asked to inspect ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Evelyn Kasel

Silent black and white footage from a JDC morale-boosting tour of famous performers to DP camps, convalescent homes, and hachsharot (vocational training collectives for those planning to settle in Israel) in Italy. 01:00:03 EXT path lined with hedges and trees at an Italian rest home for refugees from Romania and Poland (repatriated from Russia after the Holocaust en route to Palestine) - possible ...