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 ...

Travelogue with professional shooting and editing. Old man takes two young women on horse-drawn cart, as tourists. Bavaria. Streams, hills, kayaking on rapids. Two men in lederhosen steer large log raft across wide river, onto rocky shore. Anchoring the raft. “Alte Städtchen” Exotic village. Boys whistling on bicycles, put bikes on raft. (Wandervögel tradition) Large group of boys reach other side, ...

Operation of a German sawmill. Logs are made into timber and then into other wood products. (Not ordered by USHMM) 01:08:41 -- 01:09:15 Shots of a bridge over the Danube. Dark shots of Horthy as he unties a ceremonial ribbon to open the bridge, in the presence of many onlookers. Horthy shakes hands with some of the workers who built the bridge. View of an engraving on the bridge that gives the dates ...

General views of destruction in Magdeburg. MS man walks bicycle past rubbled facade of buildings, pan left across street to more damaged building frames. MS of smashed streetcars. MCU tilt up damaged building frame, deep blue sky. LS through rubble strewn passage, large steel cylindrical structure in BG. 01:07:03 The Brabag "Gasometer" in Magdeburg. 01:07:14 LS down cleared street, darker exposure, ...

German-produced documentary, scenes of life in Krakow. Mostly exterior shots of streets, streetcars, people involved in their daily activities- on the move with bikes, carts, on foot, etc. Various high angle shots of public squares, statues/monuments and architecture. Contrasted with various shots of a market, most likely in the Krakow ghetto, MCUs of bearded and /or bespectacled men dressed in tattered ...

Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving ...

(LIB 6231) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945 Head-on shots, several Russian civilians riding bicycles; red flag on handlebars of first bike. LSs, city hall building in Hanover. MSs, CUs, German civilians dig up bodies of 250 murdered Russian prisoners. MSs, bodies are wrapped in white sheets, placed in trucks, and transported to reburial grounds. VAR, ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 722, Part 2. Release date, 11/21/1938. Anti-Nazi speech (indoors) at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Shots of speakers at podium. CU, Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary speaking. Wide shots of crowd; crowd cheering. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 02:00:54 Worldwide News Events 02:00:59 Port Washington, NY "New Amphibian Plane Tested" 02:01:35 ...

The de Brouwers and their neighbors Joseph and Yvonne de Hemptinne, take a self-guided tour through Germany in July 1936. The film begins with an introduction of each traveler on the "Voyage au Pays Rhenan, taken in July 1936 by bicycle, boat, train, and car." Yvonne de Hemptinne (acting director for the film), Denise de Brouwer (acting treasurer), Joseph de Hemptinne (acting mechanic), and Carl de ...

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring ...

German anti-Jewish riots. Quick flash of store window "Jude" and Jewish Star. 04:09:22 Three folks looking in. SS on second SS shoulders' putting up poster. 04:09:35 LS, in crowded sidewalk (car camera) Jewish star. SS look at camera, street sounds, honking horns. Footage of the New Synagoue in Berlin from September 1932: Interior of synagogue. 04:09:50 Women singing (in choir). Cantor Leo Gollanin ...

György Pető (Dec 20, 1906-1971) was a talented violin player, photographer, and class lottery businessman in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged. He began making 8mm films in 1938. Pető was first in a Jewish forced labor company in Kiszombor in 1940. After returning home, Pető married Eva Lengyel (d. 1970) on September 8, 1941. They had a son, András, on October 3, 1943. Pető was again transported ...

01:18:54 December 3, 1938, the Christian population organized street collections for Jewish refugees. Shots of collectors at work on street. CU of collection tin. Jewish men walk on busy street (bikes, cars, streetcars) and enter small hotel, shot of men leaving. Same men with suitcases go to doorway. LS "Beurs Voor den Diamanth" (Amsterdam Diamond Bourse). 01:20:35 Jewish open air market as people ...

Germans takeover all Danish military installations and personnel and declared Martial Law. Two German soldiers marching up street lined with trees, in front of castle. CU, Martial Law document introduced on August 29, 1943 posted in window, reading "Militaire Undtagelsestilstand ihele Danmark." HAS street scene with German soldiers and Danish civilians, some with bicycles, around Town Hall Square in ...

"Reel 1" Intertitles in English. "The Crown Prince of Germany with some of his family" Walking towards the camera. 01:04:55 Brothers and sons of German Emperor William II (left to right): HIH (Seine Kaiserliche Hoheit, His Imperial Highness) Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), HIH Crown Prince Wilhelm, HIH Prince Eitel Friedrich, with their wives. 01:05:11 HM German Emperor William II gets into the carriage, ...

The Dutch-Jewish Bed family (Meijer, Kaatje, Elly (Jetje) and John) enjoys their vacation in a beach resort town in southern France, probably Juan les Pins. Beachgoers on the sand, under rows of sun umbrellas, and in the water. Jetje and John row a paddleboard/boat. Sand sculpture in the shape of a reclining woman. Sunbathers perform gymnastics. 03:43 Sign that says Hollywood in the BG. Kaatje (in ...

Winston Churchill and other men aboard a naval vessel. The men wear life vests. Churchill descends into the hatch at one point. He is shown getting off the ship and being received by crowds of soldiers at the port. 01:44:46 A man demonstrates how clandestine footage was filmed in occupied Paris. This appears to be a reenactment. He places a movie camera into a bicycle basket and covers it with wine ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 97, Part 6. Release date, 12/01/1930. According to UN Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs, Berlin, Germany. "Labor Strike Ends...." 140,000 workers. German metal workers returning to the factories. VS, workers filing into the factories, the street surrounding the factory; men, women and teenage boys visble in the crowds of workers entering the factory. Other parts ...

Magyar Híradó 816. Intertitle: “MÁTÉSZALKA. A VIII. közérdekíí munkaszolgálatos zászlóalj út-építési munkálatai. M.F.I.-KISS E.” Forced labor battalions constructing roads. Men dig shovels and pickaxes into the dirt. Others unload materials from wagons alongside a pile of large rocks next to train tracks. WS of the labor battalions working in a field. Some move wheelbarrows full of rocks and others ...

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

Bund Deutscher Maedel (BdM) girls in uniform bike along country road. Girls on boat, singing with Hitler Youth (HJ) boys. Stone gate in Hainburg an der Donau adorned with swastika and eagle. BdM girls line the road, local Austrians in front of shops in BG. BDM girls come through on bicycles and shake hands. Girls march through town streets, banner (illegible) hangs above the street in the BG. They ...