Videos

Clips from amateur films by Walter Nitsche and Lafayette P. Monson, spring/summer 1938

Amateur filmmakers document anti-Jewish propaganda and riots in Vienna in the months following the Third Reich’s annexation of Austria. In addition to images of property that has been vandalized or subjected to “wild aryanization,” these films also contain brief sequences of a “scrubbing parties” in which Jews are forced to clean the streets of graffiti supporting the cancelled referendum on Austria’s independence, as amused onlookers stand by.

Reactions to the November Terror 1938: „Kindertransporte“ I

Clips from interview with Sylvia Schneider, formerly Balbierer, September 25, 1997 Jackson Heights, New York, USA

Reactions to the November Terror 1938: „Kindertransporte“ II

Clips from interview with Susanne Perl, November 1, 1996, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA

Reactions to the November Terror 1938: „Kindertransporte“ III

Clips from interview with Frank Gittler, August 2, 1996, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Reactions to the November Terror 1938: „Kindertransporte“ IV

Clips from interview with William Ehrlich, December 12, 1996, San Francisco, California, USA

Clips from the newsreel News of the Day No. 289 of July 13, 1938 and footage of News of the Day, July 1938, February and October 1939

On July 13, 1938, the 289th News of the Day broadcast of California media-tycoon William Randolph Hearst covers the refugee conference in Évian. Although the bi-weekly newsreel has been produced with sound since 1929, only a silent version of the report and other footage on the conference and Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees has remained.

Together with her father in Évian

Clips from interview with Erika Daniels née Reichmann, Dezember 11, 1996, Montreal, Canada

A Kibbutz in a Caribbean Dictatorship

Clips from Interview with Barbara Steinmetz, January 18, 1998, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

and Clips from Dominican Republic Settlement Association Inc., Sosúa – Haven in the Caribbean, 1941

Refugee Drama in the Atlantic

Clips from interviews with Gisela Knepel née Feldman, May 18, 1996, Manchester, England

Liesl Loeb, August 20, 1996, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Sol Messinger, May 15, 1996, Buffalo, New York, USA

and Clips from News of the Day footage, June, 1939