Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and ...

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 ...

Archief 24.3: Godshuizen Middelburg 1811-1948, 1811-1948 (1958) > Documentatie en niet-archivalische voorwerpen > Afbeeldingen van gebouwen en een ambulance > Fotocollage met ansichtkaarten van het Gasthuis vóór de verbouwing en een foto van na de verbouwing, c. 1900-1940. 1 stuk

Archief van T.M.P.J. Ruiter. T.M.P.J. (Theo) Ruiter. Theo Ruiter had een kroeg aan de Rozengracht 160, Amsterdam. Als EHBO-er reed hij mee op de ambulance. Zijn Tuberculose-kaart diende om de Duitsers af te schrikken. Na de bevrijding heeft hij aan de repatriëring meegewerkt. Daarbij voerde hij met een vlag met het opschrift 'CAR' op de dienstwagen, die mogelijk van het Rode Kruis was. Het archief ...

Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due ...

Geëmailleerd metalen naambord van de huisarts A.A. Schoen. Adrianus Alphonsus Schoen (geboren 4 april 1910 te Amsterdam, overleden 26 december 1993 te Amsterdam) vestigde zich in april 1941 als huisarts in Amsterdam, aan de Admiraal de Ruijterweg 229. Hij nam daar de praktijk waar van de joodse arts A. Israels, die met zijn gezin was ondergedoken en na de oorlog zou terugkeren. Schoen was naar alle ...

L. Bennett ("Elby") Fenberg, a U.S. Army soldier serving in the 163rd Signal Corps as a combat photographer, captured with his movie camera the huge explosion, detonated by U.S. soldiers, which destroyed the giant metal swastika atop the tribune at the Zeppelin Field on the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg in spring 1945.

The Ann Goldman papers document her work with the Vaad Hatzala in the 1940s. The documents contain a dinner program, vaccination certificate, travel documents, refugee data sheets, passenger list for the R.M.S. Queen Mary, and two undated letters. The photographs include photos of Ann’s brother Moti Leibman and his wife; Ann with Vaad Hatzala staff in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; dinners for Henry ...

Rev. Leslie Hardman was a British Army Chaplain at the liberation of Belsen.

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 ...

Van Woerden was van 25 juli 1944 tot 2 mei als politiek gevangene in Scheveningen, Vught en Sachsenhausen. Na de bevrijding verbleef hij in een ziekenhuis in Brussel en vandaar per ambulance-trein naar Eindhoven

(LIB 5407) Roosevelt's Death, London, England, April 13, 1945. CUs, three US soldiers in Grosvenor Square read headlines announcing the death of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. MCUs, flags flying at half mast over US Embassy. CUs, US soldiers and British civilians reading papers in Leicester Square. VS, two soldiers look at paper enclosed in glass showing photo of Pres. Roosevelt and VP Harry S. Truman. ...

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 ...

CU, British soldier. Three young women with armbands walk through camp gate (guarded by British). Sign by gate "Dust Spreads Typhus 5 MPH." CU, two soldiers and two women: "One woman has travelled from Osnabruck to enquire after her husband who she believes has been interned in Belsen". MCU as captain uses DDT duster on companion outside "Dusting Room." In FG, two men sleeping by roadside. Ambulances ...

P. Vroemen > First Canadian Army > Royal Canadian Engineers > War Diary van major W.B. Sinclair, commandant van het 20th Field Company van de 1st Canadian Army Troops Engineers en War Diary van major W.H. Baker van de 1st Motor Ambulance Convoy van de Royal Canadian Artillery

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[Refugies sur les routes - distribution de soupe, infirmiere, Mai 1940] Burning village, blaze. Carrying wounded civilian. Stone, timber on fire. Airplanes. Red Cross buildings, gate with sign, "Centre Hospitalie & H.O.E. Primaire." HAS, damaged roofs, etc. INT, rooms. INT, ambulances. Damaged train. "Hospice St. Ano?" Cathedral and cemetery, crosses, badly damaged. Village mourners, 2 women with umbrellas, ...

03:30:00 (Paris 408) American Red Cross Activities, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, Germany, December 1-2, 1945. LS, EXT of American Red Cross HQ building. MS, CU, two soldiers reading announcement of symphony concert sponsored by the Red Cross. CU, sign over entrance: "American Red Cross Headquarters, Occupied Territory." Shots in the Palm Garden Club in Frankfurt. A few soldiers and Red Cross girl look ...

Deze sectiecommandant van het panser-afweergeschut aan de Grebbelinie hoorde in de meidagen van 1940 dat ze naar Rotterdam moesten gaan. Hij vraagt zich tot op de dag van vandaag af of daar pro-Duitse krachten achter hebben gezeten. De regimentscommandant ging op zijn witte schimmel voorop. In Rotterdam wisten ze niet wat ze moesten doen. Ze probeerden nog op vliegtuigen te schieten, maar daar waren ...

High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, ...

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution ...