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Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was born on May 11, 1891 in New York, NY, and was raised in a secular German Jewish family. His father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was appointed Wilson’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1913-1916, and Henry Jr. visited his father in Istanbul. Though Henry attended Cornell University, he did not graduate but instead bought a large farm in Dutchess County, NY, near the home of Franklin ...

Titles, "Haifa" and other locations in Palestine. Street scenes. Children in school/nursery in Palestine, wearing costumes, performing a play. Outdoor exercises with teacher. A young couple walks down steps through a yard toward camera. 06:35:15 In Holland, rose garden. Outdoor marketplace crowded with people. Flag of Netherlands flies atop domed building. Elders sit outdoors at the seaside café in ...

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; ...

Crowded parade in the Netherlands, probably for Queen's Day [Koninginnedag] on April 30, most likely in 1938. Floats proceed around a corner, shop sign, "J. Wagema..." visible in BG. Group of butchers in white march together holding a sign reading (in part) "De Platte Rib" with a drawing of a pig and hanging sausage links. Another float with men in crowns folllowed by police on horseback, men with ...

"The grisly procession of dead had grown alarmingly...men who had endured the terrible ordeal of Bataan, who were 10,000 miles from home, and who then died in the most miserable conditions. For me, as a doctor, the most distressing thought was that they could have been saved, almost without exception, by proper diet and medical care." Imprisoned by the Japanese in 1942, Lieutenant John Bumgarner, U.S. ...

Title card: “Rodina 1937” Steffi Guttmann and her daughters Zuzana (Suzi) and Sylvie get into a car in Prague. Shaky tracking shot in the city, tram, shops. Simon Guttmann strolls with daughters Suzi and Sylvie by the banks of the river. Other family and friends join, pose for the camera by the river. Mahrer and Guttmann children run in a park, castle in BG, joking around for the camera. Older man, ...

Long line of troops, camera mounted on jeep. Civilians wheeling belongings in wheel barrel. Excellent shot of cameraman shooting on tripod on jeep covering. Tanks through crowd down road. MPs walking with French civilians. Tracking shot, civilians waving. Hamilton, Stevens toasting with French civilians. Americans drinking with French civilians sitting on jeep. Stevens gives "V" sign. Stevens and other ...

Deutsches Jungvolk [German youngsters in the Hitler Youth - DJ] Young boys aged 8-14 in training, laughing, bugle, outdoor drills, eating, tent camp with flags. 10:07:40 Boys return to city with rucksacks, hop on streetcars. 10:07:53 Crowds gather for DJ demonstration outdoors near Berlin, boys drumming, tents with DJ flags, family members observe the boys' activities, wrestling. 10:09:30 The boys ...