Camera pans, but it is difficult to make out the shadows, at 01:16:45:14 there is a more vivid shot of the flames, illuminating a street lamp. She maintained this pattern until being placed in Reduced Operational Status at New York 29 April 1955. Woman selling nuts at market, smiling at camera, pigs, potatoes at market. A row of tall buildings is visible in the BG, it seems to be a busy business/downtown area in this unidentified locale. The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. Two Polish soldiers walking along, one is carrying a bunch of high black boots over his shoulder. 01:11:42 Above ground trains, city traffic, police officer directs traffic. MCU people look at the camera as they board a street car. HAS, military parade. Brief shot of two women looking at a medal in a case. Onlookers, small crowd. 01:09:04:10 Chaos on the streets of Warsaw. MCU of the beefcake singing in unison. This is followed by several shots of architecture in Warsaw, then a CU of an incense burner in a Catholic procession in Lowicz. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. The camera pans the bridge and the tops of the buildings, to reveal bas relief details in the facade as well as decorative columns in relief. Truck dumpsload of root vegetables. A worker counts the smelting ovens/jets. 854 Outside the school during recess, students play and move around the yard before returning to the classroom. MSs, CUs children boarding ship. Credits read as follows: A Julien Bryan IFF Presentation, written by Basil Beyea, narrated by Arnold Moss, Edited by Joseph E. Dushock and Edward H. Powick. Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. Catholic mass spills onto church steps, closer shots, children, crowd kneels. EXT, Krakow's Wawel castle. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. HAS, beach. CU of a propaganda poster with Hitler and past German leaders. He recorded this experience in both the book Siege (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) and the short film Siege (RKO Radio Pictures, 1940) nominated for an Academy Award in 1940. CU of a man blowing a warning whistle, cut to a large statue of a mermaid wielding a shield and a sword, an unidentified bridge and the Vistula River are visible in the BG. 140, 60 Stat. CU statue. The funicular travels over the village- a few shots of villagers below, then more snow and mountains. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. Filmed in Linz [see US army truck with Linz painted on the back.] 01:15:14 INTs, women take lessons for cooking, changing diapers, medicine. Farm building and truck. selling religious articles. Very brief trim, INTs of church, many clergy seated in formal dress for some kind of official visit or ceremony. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-style clothing, a camel hair coat and felt hat. 01:05:16 Bicycling, city traffic. Columns represent: Sequence number, surname, forename. According to a transcript of Bryan's film lecture on Nazi Germany in the U.S. in 1938, this is a country road from Nurnberg to Dresden in Saxony. INT, room of people being groomed. INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout). Several CUs of shop windows displaying proudly the photos of Polish leaders, particularly Pilsudski, Paderewski and the current (1937) President Mosczieksky. via Bremen." Two rabbis put away Torah scrolls and pull a curtain with an embroidered Star of David closed. 01:04:55:02 CU of a large shell casing. Troops with rifles and packs goosestep to monument. 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. CU, village children in school in southeastern Poland, playing ball outdoors, toddlers in kindergarten coloring, with abacus, learning grammar. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. The camera slates between takes indicate that this production was done in conjunction with the YMCA, which explains the focus on youth and their healthy development; the footage was most likely intended for use in an informational/documentary production for the French to encourage a return to routines of daily life that existed before the war. By law, "the Clerk of the House of Representatives" is supposed to "obtain at the close of each Congress all the noncurrent records of the Congress and of each congressional committee and transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for preservation, subject to the orders of the House of Representatives " 44 USC 2118. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. 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. DEPARTURES: 1949 & 1952 All Bremerhaven, Germany General C.H. This was a cargo steamer with limited accommodation for 13-1st class passengers. Soldiers stand around drinking as well. Polish officers using horses for crowd control, MCU of Polish Cardinal Hlond, who made several anti-Jewish statements. Paintings and sculptures located on the west and south walls of Room 3 are also shown. Man conducts an orchestra. Credits: Helios-Film Wien Quick CU of a man in profile, cut to two girls and their mother in peasant dress. This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. MS of the family back at the processing center. The Union-Castle mailships ran from Britain to South Africa and took businessmen, travellers, immigrants, cargo in peace and war and, of course, the mail. Prague prison guillotine shadow sequence; CU of a prisoner who scrubs the floor; recital hall in Prague, young men and women are gathered for a performance and social. Cut to MS, refugees of the bombing teaming around their destroyed neighborhood, the site seems to be the former cemetery that is also mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940). **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.**. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). CUs, peasant woman selling wares, flowers. CU CATERPILLAR on side of tractor. Click the logo above to reach the ssMaritime FrontPage for Ships of the Month & News . VS, sandbagging the American embassy in Warsaw. The shot lasts several seconds, then switches at 01:10:30:14 to a MS of a memorial covered in snow, wreaths, names, crosses, carnations, are all peaking out of the snow. The nurses (Sisters Zurawska, Helena, and Genowefa) remembered the day when the maternity ward of the Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration was bombed in 1939, which JB photographed (Photo Archives W/S 47210). Nazi poster. Children at the school playground, playing with toys outdoors, putting on coats, dancing in a circle. Ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe at night. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. [Be Brief!]. Large wooden cross framed by a window, shot from INT to EXT. 01:00:53:14, MS, Warszawa, Poland, old town square, horse drawn carriage, pedestrians, stop sign, street lamp. Farm scenes. Additional people enter the room and shake hands. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. Cattle grazing. Men outside shovel the glass from the windows of the American Consulate. Several additional shots of the ceremony with Polish troops being reviewed and marching, the arrival of Smigly-Rydz, and President Moscicki speaking. Children play soccer on a snowy field. MS of a guillotine. Ship passenger lists can teach you more than you might think about your traveling ancestors. Then cut to scenes of Gdansk at 01:16:35 A group of school girls in uniform march down the street carrying Nazi flags, and singing- they are all in their early teens. Woman stands and speaks. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles. Re: I would like to find information on my parent’s immigration here to the US. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. A man in traditional Polish costume herds cows in the pasture. Hospitals and churches were ultimately targets and women were machine gunned from planes while digging potatoes for their hungry families. Cut to a scene of a young girl praying in front of a small altar she has set up outdoors, there are candles, and she is reading from prayer book. Women cooking apples, cutting bread, men eating. VS of the young children dressed in their finery, two flower girls sprinkle the path to the church with flower petals. From 5 March to 4 April she sailed to Japan with occupation troops and returned to Seattle with military passengers. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. B. Stewart in 1946. Soldiers patrol the bridge. CU, high heels as the camera pans up the body of a woman trying on a dress. Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". View out the windshield of the car. A man with a WWI military medal in MCU (part of the same family) more shots of this family- they have everything loaded on a bicycle. Building rubble. 01:03:07 HJ boys and motorcycles, eating. Tito walks through his garden and around a sculpture, followed by a dog. Truck drives away. The Prague Castle. Pan of a landscape-fog rising above the mountains; snow is visible on the mountains. Camera pans to broken plates and cups in the rubble. Parade for economic recovery (ECA) activities passes, including a band and a float of the Holland America Westerdam ship. Reconstruction of Warsaw from a moving vehicle. Polish military teens pass wooden crosses along (assembly-line style) at a cemetery. Staged scenes of a village family in Zakopane, Poland. CU of baby with some damage to its skull at 01:08:45:02. Bryan with translator shows "Siege" photographs from 1939 to more Poles. EXT, VS, a new schoolhouse in Lowicz, Poland, scenes in the schoolyard, children playing. Women gaze through shop windows, reflection from outside in. Several ornate bas-relief designs in the building's facade, and a stepped, curved roof with ceramic tiles. 16 20 mm AA gun mounts. Re: Where can I find immigration records? Cut to the streets of Krakow, many people moving about, lots of activity, a religious Jew carrying a large parcel walks down the street, a peasant woman carrying a large pack on her back walks behind him, they both turn and enter a building (unmarked). VAR HAS of the ceremony, with motion picture and still cameramen running around to catch every angle. Medical professionals. 01:07:12 Pestalozzi Froebel Haus Kindergarten: children playing with wooden toys. More shots of babies born around the time of the siege, including a shot of twin boys. Earlier records may include a full name, age, gender, occupation, nationality, intended destination (country), name of ship and date of arrival. Series of sequences with Mrs. Waclawa Ladziak, her daughter Janina, her son-in-law Eugeniusz Motyka, and her 3 year old grandson. EXT, with smoke stacks, refinery in Zakopane, Poland. Example: This passenger list gives the name and age of each passenger, their birth place, last residence in the home country, information on next of kin in the home country, and information on any relative they are joining in the U.S. LS, entrance to mansion (embassy?) 01:02:52 CU of the sign on the front of a merchant's shop: "Depot de Vin T. Fukier Fonde en 1610." Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. Passenger arrival records may provide researchers with information such as: one's nationality and place of birth; ship name and date of entry to the United States; age, height, eye and hair color; profession; place of last residence; name and address of relatives they are joining in the United States; amount of money they are carrying, etc. INT church with crowd of seated academics. You are always welcome to email us at legislative.archives@nara.gov and we'll conduct a search of our holdings for records related to your request. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. Men read newspaper board. Airship construction. Kazimiera was photographed by JB in 1939 mourning the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid (Photo Archvives W/S 50897). Children climbing on pile of rubble. Two takes of this action. Crowd of people stand outside a storefront waiting for a performance of musical puppets. A celebration of the new building-the sign talks about the school going from an old thatched-roof hut to a new brick building-according to the sign this celebration is taking place in August 1937. CU, shoulder patch of a Danish soldier. 01:19:00 Scene of dead bodies in a field, a woman is covering the faces of the dead. Vineyard. Several CUs of crates bearing the names of individuals and their final destinations. People board and exit a tram. CUs of young, religious Jewish boys laughing and talking, conscious of the camera. There is little data from 1933-1937 because the books are now inaccessible. Jozefa stands at the doorway of her apartment building while her daughter and grandchildren exit (repeated shots). More CUs of this wreckage, and cleanup, the camera pans from the site of the downed plane to the surrounding buildings that look almost brand new (this location may be one of the outlying suburbs of Warsaw that Julien Bryan refers to in his book "Siege"). In 1946, Bryan photographed the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency in postwar Europe. Cut to MCU of the statue, then to a LS of the deserted banks of the river, train tracks run directly along the river banks, and there are empty, open-topped train cars. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. This map was created by Philip Stapp. CU of the operator at the helm in uniform, followed by shots of this train from various angles, men with briefcases board this single car train at an outdoor station. 01:11:36 Boys looking at NS posters on fence, "Der Stuermer". MS well- dressed women, some in fur coats, looking in a shop window- display not visible from exterior. This clip features a ceremony where President Mosczieksky passes the baton to Marshall Smigly-Ridz, who was being hailed as the man who would lead the Poles to victory over Germany. Riverboat. Associate producer Eugene Cenkalski Women setting up chess board. EXT, MS, women at a fruit vendor's stand on a city street in Warsaw. A woman meets him under the tree- the man talks to her about a gun as they sit on a bench under a tree, there is a religious icon hanging on the tree. More shots of men cleaning up rubble, digging ditches, etc. Building construction, workers with cart. Workers steer the barges along the waterway. Patrons dancing on a revolving stage, lively scenes of musicians and patrons enjoying themselves for the evening. Back to the lumberyard, several workmen moving and hauling wood around the yard. Books/programs in shop window, including "Mein Kampf", atlas. 01:06:05 Quick shot of the destruction at the American Consular office in Warsaw. "Luther-Haus" civilians. 01:07:22 Two official men stand at a microphone next to the train and read from papers, a crowd listens. 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