The extended family is gathered around a woodburning stove in their makeshift home, UNRRA crates serve as their coffee table, and a tapestry hangs on the wall in the BG above the metal frame cot. 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. EXT Charles Bridge in Prague, stone arch at one end of bridge. Several additional shots of the ceremony with Polish troops being reviewed and marching, the arrival of Smigly-Rydz, and President Moscicki speaking. All the regiments were rounded up on the field and then marched from the field through Warsaw. 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. 01:14:16:20 Good sequence of shots of Bryan posing with a larger group of victims of the bombing raids, all assembled in the middle of the rubble. [2], At that time, she was sold to Albany River Transport Inc. of New York and rebuilt as a cargo ship by Todd Shipyard in Brooklyn. CUs, boys. The bear proceeds to harass another horse drawn carriage, then returns to the sidewalk and begins to flirt with two peasant women. New York Harbor, new arrivals to America. General C.H. June 1806: Venus - On the 16 June 1806 the convict crew seize the ship and sail away with the cargo. Men at their lockers preparing to leave. Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 In Gdansk (Danzig), destruction to buildings along the river in the city, reflection in the water. Flags. Interiors with students at desks writing and a female teacher. EXT, VS, Polish cavalry on maneuvers. Renamed SS Albany when she entered commercial service in December 1968, the 10,530 gross ton cargo ship was sold to Avondale Shipyards, Inc. who converted her into Drill Ship Mission Viking for Mission Drilling & Exploration Corporation (later Mission Viking, Inc.) of New Orleans. The Germans deliberately chose this day to set the Jewish quarter on fire, burning and destroying more than 20 full city blocks. 01:07:45 Cathedral, pedestrian traffic, automobiles, bus. EXT, factory with smokestacks (minor film damage). MCU, two young refugees talk to the representatives. Women exit a building. INTs, CU, woman praying at Catholic mass. Trucks full of sandbags, foot soldiers on patrol, refugees all about, piles of stones from destroyed buildings, men digging, more refugees crossing the Paderewski Bridge, soldiers continue to recruit able-bodied men that they find in the crowds of people coming over the bridge. [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] 01:02:36:29 A group of young men and young women sitting in the grass and socializing near the train platform, They are smoking, smiling, laughing, etc, one of the men has a newspaper and several of the others are leaning in around him to read the article. 01:02:52 CU of the sign on the front of a merchant's shop: "Depot de Vin T. Fukier Fonde en 1610." 01:04:09 LS, factory, smokestacks. Two biplanes fly overhead, quickly returns to a scene of a large plaza, people milling about. Cattle grazing. Their coats have an insignia on the arm, and the women carry leather satchels.Two men accompany them. USS General M. B. Stewart (AP-140) was a General G. O. Squier -class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. Folk dancing scenes are shot at a faster speed than usual, and therefore the image is slowed down considerably. Medical journals. 01:11:36 Boys looking at NS posters on fence, "Der Stuermer". VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. 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. 10. BDM women with flowers at village house, EXT. A farm village, horses generate electricity for cutting hay. 01:04:57 CU of a wall riddled with bullet holes. Passenger lists of assisted arrivals may include: name, age, occupation, place of birth, (image) Warsaw burning [most likely stock news footage] at 01:18:32, followed by shots of Poles taking to the streets of Warsaw to dig trenches to protect against the ongoing Germany army attack. Men and women in traditional costume perform a circle dance. INT, hospital damage. Soldiers regulate crowds. Old Town Square. Different kinds of dried and canned food (supplies from abroad). Other streets of the Jewish quarter in Krakow, man selling balloons outside the Hotel Muller (sign on wall plaque next to doorway). Mechanics working on engines. CU of the German soldier getting his hair cut, another German prisoner (with a Hitler-style mustache) is smoking and talking to a Polish officer as a doctor looks on. 01:13:32 Women using telephone booth "Offentlicher Fernsprecher" Men putting coins into machine. Riverboat. The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. Poles gather in front of town ruins, VAR CUs, people in distress. These belongings are all that remain for the Poles featured here who have been displaced from their homes by the German air attacks. "Falstria" ship, truck with bundles passing in FG. Might there be correspondence between the National Archives and the Clerk of the House concerning which records were transferred and which may have subsequently been withdrawn? a rare treat."-Focus The Complete Book of Spaceflight "Darling's content and presentation will have any reader moving from entry to entry."-The Observatory magazine Life Everywhere 01:08:42 A large group of adults sit outside and listen to an instructor. Early passenger lists typically include the name of the ship, the names of passengers, ages, ports of arrival and departure, date, country of origin, and occupation. VS, panoramic shots of the countryside. More destroyed building facades. Ship - General Black. Military band marches past. Man conducts an orchestra. Mountains, village dirt road, church, people walking with umbrellas, bicycles, cows. She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Albany, before being scrapped in July 1987.[1]. EXT, relocation of DPs and war refugees. MCU a woman carries a chicken, several other refugees. People visible along the banks in the BG. MS, men & women marching in street, bridge in BG. Elevator. Sign on EXT of building: "Entartete Kunst." The parade review stand, dignitaries, both military and civilian, hob-knob with each other, salute and review the marching troops, etc. Julien Bryan with Apolonia and village children distributing contents of a CARE package. MS of a building that has been devastated by a German bomb. Wooden crosses flanked with miniature Polish flags and flowers. INT men enter a room full of large stacks of wound wire. More grooming/setting hair. **, Staged scenes inside a peasant couple's home. visitor! The General Buckner, with 1,375 passengers, left the New York Port of Embarkation (at Brooklyn) on March 4 and is expected to arrive at Bremerhaven on March 11 or 12. 8. Market place (LS) with synagogue in BG. Reel 3A Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. VS in the mine, cars full of zinc being loaded and guided by workers, using levers to control the cars as they travel along the rails in the mine. Brief shot of Stefan Radlinski (in light jacket) shaking hands with a Polish civilian. There are certainly some committees and Congresses for which we have very extensive files -- and conversely there are some committees and Congresses for which we have very little. Built by Earles Shipbuilding Co, Hull for the Wilson Line, she was launched on 26th Apr.1881. Ceremony continues in the courtyard with President Moscicki, there is a bust of Pilsudski on a pedestal on the red carpet. Young men learn how to play basketball. INT, large group of women sitting around a table. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. In Lowicz, a young, attractive Polish peasant women is putting on her costume, she wears several layers of skirts, a cropped jacket, and long braids. CUs, posters. 01:12:21 Scenes of city life, we are now on the outskirts of Warsaw - the trolley pulls up to the station, the sign on the front of the trolley reads "Destination: Dworska". VS: Berlin, Germany: public telephone booth, ornate facade of building in BG. LS, amusements along river - children playing. union castle line passenger lists south africa union castle line passenger lists south africa **, VS, Krakow, Poland landmarks: old maket square, Catholic church, museums, municipal buildings, the castle. Two men conducting business in a dark doorway. EXT, the miners emerge from the mine, head into another building at the refinery. ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be HAS of the ceremony in the courtyard. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Reel 3A CU, shoulder patch of a Danish soldier. Crane with the bundle of chairs. Window opens to the sky. A designer sketches a dress. The passengers wave from the ship's deck to the camera, the camera follows the ship as it heads out to sea. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 The sign is written in Polish. Woolworth windows, storefront. HJ boys looking at NS propaganda postcards. Several establishing shots of streets, etc, mostly new buildings, signs for construction and construction companies are visible, all the buildings are modern, cement block highrises. 9. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. 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). More slates and different farming machinery. MS, tracking shot, taken from the point of view of a streetcar making its way down an unidentified city street. Cherished old quarters of Poland with ornate signs. Very brief trim, INTs of church, many clergy seated in formal dress for some kind of official visit or ceremony. INT, Pancraz prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. 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. Cut to soldiers loading cannons that look more like WWI artillery rather than WWII. 01:08:25:20: Swimming pool, the boys how to dive with a coach, VS, CUs of the coach positioning their bodies, shot from behind, then seen in reverse angle from the front, shot from the opposite side of the pool; more horseplay in the pool. The younger girl, looking terrified, poses holding her sister's hand, CU, glimpse of the young girls' shiny black shoes. New slate: Bremerhaven, Germany: DPs getting off the trains from the first leg of their journey, US military police are patrolling the train platform, young women with their luggage and their ID tags pinned to their coats line up for the camera and then move along. 01:19:18 Tobacco farming. Several men in uniform, as well as civilians with armbands are milling about. Metal is being cast, shots of the molten metal. 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. Men buy beer from a stand in the square. Quick shot of two women entering a church, dipping their fingers in holy water before entering. CU CATERPILLAR on side of tractor. Procession with banners into a church in Lowicz. In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. The Venezuelan mission representative locates Venezuela on a large map of South America for the family, as they look on and ask questions. VAR views of schoolchildren walking along the sidewalk and playing at school. Polish military teens pass wooden crosses along (assembly-line style) at a cemetery. CUs of the cars and zinc ore. LS, entrance to mansion (embassy?) EXT, VS, M. Finkelstein's haberdashery in the Jewish quarter of Krakow, Poland. Storefront. Elaborate Russian Orthodox church. Women setting up chess board. Several women gathered together on the road, closeups. 01:00:04:23 MCU, Warszawa, Poland, house with lion old town, witojaska street LAS of architectural details. in Australia. A man in uniform (prison guard) enters the frame and demonstrates the operation of the guillotine. Man working, pedestrians. The coal mining compound, INTs, EXTs, LS. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Merch Bradt Stewart. Courtyard with men moving large sacks. VS, mostly MCUs of the family members passing around the documents to have a closer look. LS, man walking along road with three children, a cyclist, and a building with faade under construction. Classroom shots of the Goldschmidt school in Berlin, which was created when Jews were no longer allowed to enroll in public schools. 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. The peasant women turns and takes a break from gathering to look at the camera. Night. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. Huge crowd on stands in main city square, VCU church (Nuremberg? Cannot confirm location where this was shot, but Bryan references shooting these scenes in 1937. Julien Bryan with a female interpreter, Christina Cekalska, in front of a sign for the National Theater. 01:21:49 Tanks parade down the street, the cannons are drawn by horses. There are two trims that feature signs along the platform which could aid in identification of the exact location, but they are in the BG of the shot, and not completely legible. Eyeglass shop. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. This is listed by Julien Bryan as "Estate in winter, man and wife with dog and gun.". MCU of Julien Bryan speaking with one of the nurses at the hospital. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the station. Damaged brick building. Storefront with Cyrillic sign. Good CUs of the children, the press, etc. Memorial for the fallen, Berlin. Coach instructs swim team how to dive properly. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. Crowd of young women in traditional dress lining the parade route. Refugees line up for bread outside a building, a soldier guards the door trying to keep things orderly. UNITED STATES INFORMATION CENTER'' building on a street corner with a traffic officer in front. SEQ: Women in fashionable dresses walk down stairs and model for a small group of people. MS, grand building, Hotel Bristol, where JB and other foreigners with neutral passports assembled on Sept. 21, 1939 immediately prior to getting out of Warsaw. 76-5155", Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_General_M._B._Stewart_(AP-140)&oldid=1090237230, This page was last edited on 28 May 2022, at 08:32. Title "Eine Tr Steht Offen" Boys play basketball. EXT, building ruins, pan down. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers and their newborn babies are seated on the tile floors of the hospital corridors. 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. UGD 255/1/26/10 Passenger list of MV Caledonia sailing from Glasgow to 1950 Birkenhead on June 9th. CU people sing and make hand gestures and smile. They are on the road leading out of the wooden church. Three horses pull a cart full of root vegetables as a man walks alongside. Crowd boarding "Hindenburg" ferry. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-style clothing, a camel hair coat and felt hat. EXT, CU, two young Jewish boys socializing with each other. Boys. TTY: 202.488.0406. Autobahn. CUs of Czech language booklets. This map was created by Philip Stapp. 01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. Older man using oxen to run a grain threshing machine. EXT, city scenes from a moving tram. Windows of houses. Medical professionals. Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. HAS, repeated LSs, of the city of Warsaw from a lookout tower. Teenage boys (refugees) waiting in line to board the ship, looking up at the ship that is out of frame, their ID tags are attached to pins that say; "US Committee," they are followed by a group of older ladies, a man with a camera around his neck moves out of the way of the movie camera. "A first-rate resource for readers and students of popular astronomy and general science. Man plays piano. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. 6. Coal. The man hands the bear money in exchange for his services. 01:09:54:20: return to concert/recital; CUs of audience members; English lessons at the YWCA with a female teacher. Scene shifts to barge along a river in Austria. VS, CUs of the children lauging and enjoying themselves during the performance. EXT, VS, a new schoolhouse in Lowicz, Poland, scenes in the schoolyard, children playing. EXT, VS Prague, buildings under reconstruction; town square; EXT of the YMCA;CU of sign that reads: "Polska YMCA"; adolescent boys coming out of the swimming pool in their short, tight trunks, lots of horseplay and other things popping up. CUs at 01:22:00:00 of posters advertising film screenings and other events. The dignitaries arrive at the parade review stand. Motorcade. Store workers moving a display.Older, poorer orthodox man, scenes of the old market place. 01:06:06 Children eating, kindergarten. The camera is fixed on the platform, soldiers pass by, two orthodox priests pass by, and a porter carries their luggage. Pancraz prison in Prague SEQ (postwar): CU of a prisoner scrubbing the floor; CU, guillotine shadow; three men stand in front of the gallows and discuss. More shots of the fire at 01:06:38:12 trees are visible silhouetted against the flames, and there is a horse drawn carriage passing by. CU streetlight illuminating. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. How do I best word a request to find out if a particular report produced by a House committee was transferred by the Clerk of the House to the National Archives following the close of the 90th Congress? The attendant references a New York telephone book for a woman. whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage. 20th century lists include even more details, giving the town or county of origin, and the names of other family members, destination, physical description, and more. 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. He flips through page by page. 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. The first two CUs are of a worker from the zinc mine, on break, drinking water from a metal cup. 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. Pan, Warsaw. Cut to the bear sitting on the bench with a young man next to him, and a small dog at his feet. Gesturing to photograph of philosopher Jaroslav imsa on the wall while eating bread. This page has been viewed 214,344 times (45,122 via redirect). 01:09:03 Countryside, model village, German civilians walking. Polish soldiers with guns walking through the streets. Crowd heiling in front of church. A sequence shot in the Warsaw nightclub "Adria". MLS, a group of young women walk down a street, some carry backpacks, they are viewed from behind, a horse drawn carriage in the FG, a large castle-like building in the BG. From 5 March to 4 April she sailed to Japan with occupation troops and returned to Seattle with military passengers. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. The girls walk away from the camera, with their backs to the viewer. Audience stands for refreshments. Bryan writes in his book "Siege" that one processing tank exploded, and luckily, his film was not in that tank. Tram stop. Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. Crane comes down from the deck of a ship. 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. Polish children walking on street, woman waving from window. CUs, INTs, art, patrons, "Nehmen Sie Dada Ernst" on wall. "America Welcomes its New Citizens" Ship full with people at sea. Bryan with translator shows "Siege" photographs from 1939 to more Poles. CU They bow their heads in prayer. Shot from a plane, or some sort of funicular down to the valley below. They are piling chairs, pictures of the Madonna, plates, etc, outside on the ground. 01:21:07 Leica factory. Shadow of blade falling. In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. Waitress with giant bow. Two Polish soldiers walking along, one is carrying a bunch of high black boots over his shoulder. 01:20:12 Castle ledge. A family carries kindling on their backs. Man plays piano. The priest visible in the middle wearing a dark cassock and elaborate hat is then parson of Chochow parish, Kazimierz Rzeszodko. Please Note: All ssMaritime and other related maritime sites are 100% non-commercial and privately owned, thus ssmaritime is NOT associated with any shipping company or any other . Good scenes of daily activity. English intertitles. There is a very abrupt cut at the end of this scene. Nazi rally. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea . The family then walks across a bridge (recreation of the 1939 scene). INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Scene with six Polish soldiers sitting down, looking at papers or maps and discussing something. Train cuts through snowy mountains. The doorway is marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church]. 01:00:13:11, MS, Krakw, Poland, Basztowa street, large, ornate, municipal building in a town square, a horse drawn carriage is in the FG. The first band is the Franciszek Witkowski group. Troops waiting to begin the ceremony, then entering the courtyard with rows of chairs set up for the event, reviewed by President Moscicki. Girl with kitten. The quarter was destroyed that night. Cranes, crates, laborers. The classes are co-ed. Sailing for New York 22 April, General M. B. Stewart arrived 11 May and decommissioned 24 May. Men and women gathered in a room with bookshelves, looking at a booklet together.

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