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“Kodak Safety Film” logo. A group of men and women standing outside a building with a sign says “Rigas Pilsetas Juanatines Un Aroda Piemerotibas Petisanas Institus” [Riga City Youth and Occupational Fitness Research Institute]. The women are wearing dresses and the men are in suits. On a boat named “Konug Oscar”. Woman and a teenage boy and other family members are on the boat smiling and pulling the ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, ...

Jaffa-Jerusalem road, the proposed "corridor" in the British partition scheme. Driving on the road from Jerusalem to Jaffa. Several scenes from a moving vehicle showing road lined with cactus and orange groves. Road sign reading "JERUSALEM-LYDDA-RAMLE." Shot of the main highway from Jerusalem to Jaffa from above. 01:14:58 Policeman directing traffic in Jaffa, street scenes, square in Jaffa. Good view ...

Between 1942 and 1945 three million Americans passed through Great Britain. Most were young men in their early twenties, away from home for the first time. They left a country pulling out of its worst-ever depression. They came to the heart of a great but waning empire battered by war. The Brits said the Yanks were "oversexed, overpaid, overfed, and over here." GIs claimed that the Limeys were "undersexed, ...

Niemann was a teacher and member of the SA.

Men moving off in twilight silhouetted against sunset. Group of men kneeling in twilight. Officer in combat gear reading orders. American flag on left shoulder, men in this unit appear to be paratroopers. Planes have names such as "Windy City," "Bobbie Ellen 3," "Dinky," "Philadelphia Express." This is a portable metal runway. VS of men under wings of plane. LS, pan of plane landing. Jeep towing small ...

World War I-era scenes: German soldiers riding horseback. British troops on the battlefield, sheltering from enemy fire, then running across the field. Quick scenes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in a group of military men, descending a staircase and reviewing a parade of German soldiers. Women, men and children gathered on a balcony for what appears to be a wedding. This is the wedding of Archduke Charles ...

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. ...

Building that is serving as hospital (German military hospital). Patients in yard. German ambulances with Red Cross symbol. German officer in uniform walking down street with white band on left arm. Shot of street, old man, horse drawn cart. Gene Solow (war correspondent) and GIs walking down the street. LS of street with horse drawn cart and civilians pulling wagon. Street sign unreadable indicating ...

Petrus Johannes alias Jan De Vleeshouwer was born on 19 July 1901 in Grobbendonk, Belgium. He married Leonie Obbels, born in Pulle, Belgium, on 1st August 1897. Jan was the verger and organist of Grobbendonk. Together, Jan and Leonie had two children: Jozef De Vleeshouwer and Maria De Vleeshouwer. The family lived at Kiezelweg 62 (today Quinten Matsyslaan) in Grobbendonk. During the Second World War ...