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Pedestrians on Charles Bridge in Prague. Buildings and street in the Little Quarter. St. Vitus Cathedral. Scaffolding. Old Town Square. Statue of the Holy Crucifix and Calvary on Charles Bridge. Additional shots of statues, buildings, and streets in Prague. (03:50) INT shadow of man cranking the blade of a guillotine up. This scene was shot in the Pancraz prison in Prague postwar. Shadow of blade falling. ...

Robert Gessner was born on October 21, 1907 in Escanaba, MI. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1929 and a M.A. from Columbia University in 1930. He started teaching at New York University in 1930. He married Doris Lindeman on May 27, 1938 and had two children, Peter and Stephen. Mr. Gessner was a screen playwright and the author of several books, including "Massacre" (1931); "Broken ...

(LIB 6276) Former POW hospital complex now occupied by American troops from the 666th Medical Collecting Company. The CUs of patients are former Soviet soldiers. Malnourished former prisoners of war stare at camera from hospital beds. CU of emaciated body. 00:00:27 Wounded man with amputated leg lies crying in bed. CU of injury. Former prisoner still in striped uniform in bed. 00:01:00 Hospital complex. ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Ein Filmdokument der Schaefer-Expedition, 1938/39." Sound track added in 1942, with racial content stressed. Terrain/map. "Tibet / Indien" Dr. Karl Wienert, hand measurements. 00:04:52 to 00:05:01Measuring woman's head. Dr. Bruno Beger, "Die menschen Rasse des Forschungs..." Cameraman. Terrain, model, map, Ganges. 00:06:21 Scenes, streets, Calcutta (very good). Train to the base of the Himalayas.00:07:23 ...

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, ...

Daniel Jacobson (b. 1919) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Samuel David (1889-1977) and Annie (Anna) Rose Jacobson (1894-1966). Daniel’s parents were first generation Americans, who emigrated from Lithuania, Samuel in 1911 and Annie in 1914. Daniel had two younger brothers; Joseph (1924-2003) and Saul (1926-1999), and a younger sister, Beatrice (later, Bertha Lena Shannon 1929-1967). Samuel worked ...

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; ...

Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, ...

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

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, ...