Float of a beetle: STAATSVIJANDA. More parade floats, one with girls with a large heart engraved with THANK YOU MARSHALL. People look out of windows. The monument is heavily lit and a flag is posted before it. Women greet officials, shake hands. **, Animated maps of Poland showing the changes in the political borders of Poland from 1795 when the land area was divided between German, Russian and Austrian interests to the 1914 borders in which the empires of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary engulfed Poland entirely from a political standpoint, despite the fact that a distinct Polish culture still existed. at the port as they get on board the ship. Coal. Crowded train platform, several bourgeois looking families are boarding the trains, some soldiers are also on the platform, some help the women and children board. Credits: Helios-Film Wien The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. Learn more. Very lively, footage. Cut to scene behind the American Embassy where, according to Julien Bryan's book "Siege", all the Americans were during the Siege. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. "Meet the first DPs" "Ship to Freedom" Numbers on tags pinned to coats of refugees. Dumping coal into truck with crane. "Falstria" ship, truck with bundles passing in FG. Boys in an indoor pool. Passenger Mr. Panton and family. Small church. EXT, caf with patrons in Krakow. CU of molten zinc being poured into molds. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. Farm machinery and truck in field, harvesting. Wreath laying. Women with kerchiefs looking over crib. A family carries kindling on their backs. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Boys engage in wood carving and sculpture in the classroom. Crowds looking at exhibitions, including "Das Weisse Gold," "Glaswolle," yarn/textiles, boots, "Continental" tires, "Sicherheits-Glas." Sign on EXT of building: "Entartete Kunst." EXT, Krakow's Wawel castle. A crowd surrounds a vehicle. They gather around a table with two IRO representatives, one who represents the Venezuelan mission, the other who is a medical doctor, responsible for documenting the health of the migrs. HAS, boys playing soccer. EXT, LS a courtyard of a modern looking building, white, cement block, men enter (probably EXT of the art school in Zakopane). MS of young girls doing needlework in a classroom. Cranes, crates, laborers. Good CUs of the couple. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Animation of Hollywood, showing a camera crew filming on a beach. The lists include approximately 5 million records of individuals, approximately 80% of whom were destined for the United States. Lumber yard. Animation Philip Stapp, Establishing shots of Krakow, shot circa 1936/37. Girl kisses mother, boy kisses mother, sick child in bed, CUs. Some of the CUs of the Germans are quite out of focus, comes back into focus- the priest spends some time smoking and talking to the German soldiers followed by a series of CUs of the wounded men. Men observing and discussing guillotine. LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." General M. B. Stewart (AP-140) was launched 15 October 1944 under Maritime Commission contract (MC #707) by Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, California; sponsored by Mrs. M. B. Stewart; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned at San Francisco 3 March 1945. Men at their lockers preparing to leave. RM 2HDBDR9 - SS Andrea Doria at sea in the early 1950s. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. Men seen through an open window. Riverboat. VS, inside near the furnaces, men coming out for a break and getting water, women sorting the ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, men drilling inside the mine. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in a flowered hat is welcomed by state officials. Shadow of blade falling. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. 01:00:37 Displaced persons (DPs) on a transport sponsored by the IRO. TRIMS featuring a train that has stopped at an unknown station in Poland, the train picks up several passengers: men, women, and children, and continues along the tracks slowly out of the station. Men sitting outside on break, smoking. The ship was an ocean liner for the Italian Line (Societ di Navigazione Italia . These are many groups of extended families. CU of one of their passports from Yugoslavia. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. MS of three orthodox Jews on a street corner talking to each other, across the street in BG there is a sign for the shop "Salomon Diamant"- a men's clothing store [duplicate footage on USHMM Film ID 3001]. Train trolley, Germans eating. 01:08:48 Airplanes, one says "Gustav Leffers", men cleaning EXT, wings. Photo of Polish leader displayed in shop window next to shoes. MCU of Julien Bryan speaking with one of the nurses at the hospital. Camera pans from the large flames, to a beautiful old four-five story building where flames are just barely visible flickering through some windows, it seems this building too will soon be in flames. Departing New York 7 December, she sailed via the Suez Canal to India where she arrived Karachi 28 December to embark 3,300 returning veterans. Men shovel into the fire. Helpful details include: the passenger's first and last names; approximate year of arrival; "ethnicity" (which may include race, nationality, and/or religion); approximate age at arrival; ship of travel; port of departure; and whether the passenger traveled with other family members. INTs of the 1937 Munich exhibition of "Degenerate Art" [Entartete Kunst] in the Archaeological Institute, not far from the house of German Art. 1890-1930 Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore Steamship Arrivals, 1890-1930, ($), index 1892-1924 New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Index only. CUs, basketball players. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle. Flag of the Netherlands. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. Older Jewish couple posing outside of their shop-M. Finkelstein is the name on the placard above their shop door. A young woman lying on the grass reading. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. CU man leading song. ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be **, Animated numbers scroll from 1940 to freeze on "Poland 1945". LS, entrance to mansion (embassy?) ECU of elderly women with headscarf. Geo-political lecture on hillside in Bavarian Alps. CU of a young girl wiping tears from her eyes as she looks at the corpses. mc N 761, in the Family History Area. Truck drives away. Crane with the bundle of chairs. VS from the gondola, shadows of the gondola along the mountainside. The exact location, date, and purpose of the religious service are unknown. Three nurses look at photos of a bombed hospital from "Siege" book, the shots that follow include Julien Bryan in the frame. CUs, boots. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard. CU, a young boy chipping away at a sculpture. Children eating outdoors during celebration, long table, party hats. Cut to the bear sitting on the bench with a young man next to him, and a small dog at his feet. Man on ground hoists materials to men and women on scaffolding. Images are slightly underexposed due to the fact that filming was done in low light in an underground mine. 01:17:14:00 MLS a memorial procession through the streets of Warsaw, wreaths, a horse drawn carriage with a coffin inside- the shot is too quick to catch the name on the banner, the pall bearers are dressed in very elaborate uniforms. Men and women gathered in a room with bookshelves, looking at a booklet together. CU molten zinc being smelted in a furnace at the Giesche Mine and Refinery in Katowice. [Be Brief!]. LS: Autobahn construction: large crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. Few cars parked in the plaza. After returning to San Francisco 18 April with 1,500 veterans embarked, she made a round-trip voyage out of San Francisco from 26 April to 19 June to transport troops to Pearl Harbor; the Admiralty Islands; and Leyte, Philippine Islands. Passenger lists for City Lines ships. Girls eating, performing skit, writing, eating, marching. The scene then returns to Warsaw: street scene, kiosk, poster advertising a theatrical performance. The soldier then proceeds to tear off a piece of the wing and show the camera how it bends; several Polish men then carry the wing back into a garage. Nazi poster. 01:14:55 BDM girls. A series of TRIMS/short outtakes. CUs, photographs of current events. CUs of passengers in the train cars, LS of a conductor at the edge of the train platform monitoring the loading and unloading of passengers. A woman is selling flags with the eagle crest insignia of Poland. MS, policeman on horseback, using the horse as crowd control, people are gathered. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History Other Events on 11 April 1669 - Launch of french Fort 68, later 76 guns (designed and built by Jean Guichard, launched 11 April 1669 at Rochefort) - renamed Foudroyant in June 1671, broken up 1690 1693 - Launch of HMS Winchester. CU profile of man who cleaned the prison floor in earlier scene. LS, Leica factory, INTs. Boys swim and play around, file into a locker room. Exterior of large brick building: Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten in Berlin. In yard, husband and wife gardening, picking flowers, hoeing. Debris from destroyed buildings. People board and exit a tram. Several shots are in slow motion. Sequence of outtakes. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering. Two young girls look at an umbrella display in a shop window; shots from inside the women's clothing store to the street and people outside reflected in the windows. **, Staged scenes inside a peasant couple's home. Interior - damage to Kodak film laboratory where Bryan's films were being developed. 01:06:06 Children eating, kindergarten. Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. The CEMLA database contains data of the arrivals to the port of Buenos Aires of passengers and immigrants who arrived in the period 1882-1932, 1938-1945, 1947, 1948, 1949 (partial) and 1950. If the viewer looks closely they can make out the outlines and shadows of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter in bucket brigades in the foreground of these shots trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. Row of bicycles and motorcycles under a shelter, man rides a bicycle away. General Stuart Heintzelman was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to overseas transport duty under MSTS. From 5 March to 4 April she sailed to Japan with occupation troops and returned to Seattle with military passengers. Woman with a young child and carriage. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witw, in Kocielisko Commune, Tatrzaski County. Long CU on an older woman who retells her part of the story, cut to the two young boys reading Mickey Mouse comics (JB mentions this in the book "Siege", (1940) as well). They are trying to string the flag so that it will somehow be visible from the air so that the Germans will not bomb them. DPs hang out of the train windows and wave goodbye as the train departs. The owners, however, insisted that because the vessel was licensed with the Coast Guard and the work performed was done by crew members, that the Coast Guard, and not OSHA, had authority over the vessel's operations. Shots of the machinery and process and workers. Woman stacks sod. Man demonstrates guillotine. HAS, military parade. 01:15:05 Boat, LS, cathedral on riverbank. Marching band and soldiers parade out of tent camp where the 20,000 men camp while they march at Nuremberg, preparing food for military in tent camp, soldiers receive portions of beef in canteen. VS of the streets and architecture of the city of Gdynia, picturesque shots of the boats on the sea and the canals that flow through the city. Grand Canyon. DPs from Europe, they are not all Jewish DPs, but they are all war refugees. Cut to LS of a cavalry regiment coming down another sandy hillside. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. 01:05:16 Bicycling, city traffic. A young woman writes a Walt Whitman quote in English on a chalkboard. VS, along the water, views of the banks along the Baltic Sea; MS, traffic cops, men loading large bags onto ships. As I said, the volume of records we receive for each committee varies tremendously and is not something that we have control over. The bombed out Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration, one of Warsaw's largest hospitals. 01:05:20 Crowd entering ferry, pan up to bridge. MS, a horsedrawn carriage passes a palace in Warsaw. Poignant shot of two little boys, one little girl, and one woman with her head bandaged holding an infant in her arms sitting on the street surrounded by rubble, the children are barefoot, and they look frightened and confused. Another view of the Dutch flags. Parade, marching band. LS establishing shot of a large crowd of displaced persons- men, women, and children, milling about outside of a barracks-like building (processing center). A woman stands in front of a mirror in a dress that a seamstress is adjusting and pinning. Younger girls walk along a country road in Saxony, stake a flag, eat lunch, read, nap, and perform silly skits. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. MCU of the regiments in full dress marching through the streets, traveling shot, slightly out of focus. People walk along near the shop windows, in the distance a cathedral is visible, silhouetted against the sky, the sign on the back of the trolley car reads: "Most Podgerski". The Reading Room at the Shapell Center is open to the public. Street, trolley moves towards the camera. Sequence of modern shop windows in the city, including a fabric store, a clothing store, a food market, and a hair salon. Painted murals on church. Young girls play ball in an open courtyard. Man standing next to large machine. VS of Wawel Castle and architectural details; a man and women atop a vantage point on the castle looking down at the river below, more barges; VS of buildings viewed from the river, very picturesque. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls); Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36; National Archives, Washington, D.C. CU, map of Yugoslavia. The first two CUs are of a worker from the zinc mine, on break, drinking water from a metal cup. Is there an inventory, index, or list of records that would have been created (or received) by the National Archives at the time of the transfer? Soldiers walk by the camera in city. A foreman barks orders to the workers, he is in a uniform and wears a cap. Signpost: "Wilhelmplatz" and "Wilhelmstrasse." This is shot from the train- so Bryan and his cameraman are on the train en route to somewhere, or they hopped on the train to take the shots from this point of view- there seem to be several soldiers on board the train. . He gives Apolonia a scarf and fur jacket. CU Flipping through the magazine. INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). MLS of a group of barefoot children being lead through the rubble-filled streets by young women. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Washington, DC 20024-2126 Boys. 01:00:01:07 MCU, two young Polish women in traditional South Polish folk costumes walk down a dirt path away from a wood frame house and toward the camera. Sign on phone booth reads: "Fernsprecher" [long distance] and has a stamp dispenser. CU of signs: Top: Citizens are asked to keep their dogs on leash. Grand views of the decorated stadium with thousands of participants and spectators. [5], In 1981 Mission Viking was transferred to Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp. of Panama. City. EXT, CU, shop windows in Warsaw. (Olivaerplatz near Kurfuerstendamm) LS Airship hangar. People cross the plaza. Cut to young girls playing ball in the courtyard. LS of the United States Information Center from across the street from this building, then moves in to CUs of the building, and the window display that features promotions for the 1948 Summer Olympics. Massive crowds of bystanders. More shots of this new looking, yet classically inspired piece of architecture with rounded faade, columns, and bas relief designs. More stocks shots of bombs dropping from planes. 01:20:13 Cathedral 01:20:20 Marching band parading. 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