In the BG several tents are visible on the hillside. As the DPs board the ship, US Army man directs them from the top of gangplank: men are sent to one side, women and children to the other. A Polish soldier confiscating the remains of the wreckage of a downed German plane. The transport was reacquired by the Navy. Flag performance (fast motion). New slate, Salzburg, Austria: US Information Center on a buys street corner. 01:08:24:00 Scene of destruction, birds take flight, INTs of the Catholic hospital, the nurses and mothers with newborn babies leaving the destroyed building. A young man approaches and they begin to struggle. of Shakespeare play in Russia, Russian Christian Orthodox church service, Degenerate Art Exhibit [Entartete Kunst] in Munich, 1937, Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming, Berlin street scenes; memorial ceremony; coal, Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda, Daily life in Poland, 1936, scenes of Polish cavalry, German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939, Catholic hospital in Warsaw destroyed during the German siege, 1939. Pedestrians on Charles Bridge in Prague. A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. The rest of the trims feature older men of the town, wearing traditional dress (heavy coats with fur collars and some embroidered details), they stand around smoking and talking to each often staring intently at the camera. 78-617; OSHRC Docket No. Warsaw street scenes. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. 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. This is listed by Julien Bryan as "Estate in winter, man and wife with dog and gun.". MS, cemetery with men, women, and children. 01:19:19 Autobahn, trucks. CUs of the cars and zinc ore. 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. 01:13:39 LS freight train, railroad tracks around mountainside. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. CU molten zinc being smelted in a furnace at the Giesche Mine and Refinery in Katowice. TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Poland in 1936. CU of a brick oven that remained intact. 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. Several CUs of destroyed pieces of equipment being inspected by the group of men, a CU of a piece of cloth from the parachute seen earlier in this sequence at 01:03:07:28: revealing some marking and possibly a date of manufacture- difficult to make this out very well on screen. Animation begins of New York City buildings and trains as the woman gives voiceover. Street traffic, buses, trolleys, cars, people. Cows pass a barn. Young girl on the street asking for directions from Orthodox Jewish men. CUs of graves. Turnip and potato planting and picking in the fields of Zakopane. Truck dumpsload of root vegetables. More stock shots of an unidentified bridge exploding, a building collapsing in flames, etc. Aerial shot of caf, pedestrians, patrons. Various shots of little children. BDM women with flowers at village house, EXT. Hi Michelle -- thanks for posting to History Hub! Sportfolio magazine. Line of university professors in academic robes enter a building with an American flag flying over the entrance. These are many groups of extended families. She maintained this pattern until being placed in Reduced Operational Status at New York 29 April 1955. Woman shovels sand into a cement mixer. whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane, You will usually find several possible entries for, Many immigrants traveled in groups or settled among friends and relatives from their native land. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. Movie cameras set atop automobiles. Farmers working. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railcar and over the debris. Several of the subjects look directly at the camera. 01:09:04:10 Chaos on the streets of Warsaw. name and address of relatives they are joining in the U.S. Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Russians to the United States, documenting the period 1834 - 1897, Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine, documenting the period 1/12/1846 - 12/31/1851, Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Germans to the United States, documenting the period 1850 - 1897, Data Files Relating to the Immigration of Italians to the United States, documenting the period 1855 - 1900. HAS, market, vegetables, eggs. Scenes of country life in Zakopane, Poland, staged for the camera. Baby in carriage. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. 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. 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. New York Harbor, new arrivals to America. Cattle grazing. Construction. CU, woman in window talking to someone below. Man working, pedestrians. Men work among ruins. Muir, departed from Bremerhaven, Germany, 21 March 1952, and arrived in New York, 31 March 1952. Several people standing on a train platform as the train pulls into the station. 01:05:26:22 A woman comes and picks up her picture of the Madonna and holds it up for the camera, with her two children standing beside her. MCU of Julien Bryan speaking with one of the nurses at the hospital. The funicular travels over the village- a few shots of villagers below, then more snow and mountains. Honor guard with bayonets approaches mausoleum, with six large fluted columns. In 1953 she made another voyage to Korea and transported home veteran troops before returning to her regular Bremerhaven-New York schedule. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652. CU sign reads YMCA KAVARNA JIDELNA VCHOD PASAZI. Young men with a coach on a basketball court. A young girl in traditional central Polish dress walks by on cue, and the bear jumps out of the bushes, feigning to attack the young girl. CU, inscriptions and signs. She sailed 30 December for the United States and arrived Seattle 25 January 1946. This page was last edited on 2 September 2022, at 11:55. selling religious articles. A man stops to take a photograph of the young man fighting with the bear. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery. 14:48 CU, another CWS sign, LAUF. 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. 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. Wide views of the train station. 01:00:56:00, LS, Krakw, Poland, Wisa River, view from Wawel castle on river and Dbnicki bridge, on the left Ranowski house villa. Of this encounter in 1958, JB wrote "he remembered my gray suit." Photography Jules Bucher, Julien Bryan 01:05:57 Germans gathered on street, looking off screen. was the first American troopship to carry European refugees to their new homes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. They pass a man with a movie camera. Sailing for New York 22 April, General M. B. Stewart arrived 11 May and decommissioned 24 May. Additional people enter the room and shake hands. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. People cross the plaza. 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. Nazi soldiers parade through town. Poles walking with bundles. Large building adjacent to new construction. Hang gliding. Three men digging in a pile of bricks. 1. They look at Polish signs and advertisements for the 1937 Worlds Fair, which was held in Paris from May to November. VS of refugees filing off of trains and towards the ship. Quick shot of men and women, then of the street and a horse drawn cart passing by. The man hands the bear money in exchange for his services. (No Jews permitted)". Man leads a seated audience in song with accompanying hand gestures. Longer shot of the same area showing the church steeple, patrons, ruined buildings, electronic rail lines above the streets. CU of one of their passports from Yugoslavia. Cut to young girls playing ball in the courtyard. Several women gathered together on the road, closeups. Pan, WS, building, sign across top of building, crowds lined up. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. MS, a walking bridge that joins two buildings together. The sign is written in Polish. Market, fruit and vegetable stands, balloons. Beach. ), tourists in FG, nuns. Muir, departed from Bremerhaven, Germany, and arrived in New York, 29 July 1949. View out the windshield of the car. The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). Steel mill. Scaffolding. Few cars parked in the plaza. Onlookers, small crowd. CU sign reads YMCA KAVARNA JIDELNA VCHOD PASAZI. CU sign reads PRAZSKA YMKA. Busy sidewalk in front of YMCA, several people enter. The man looks back at the camera a few times after passing the dead woman's body. The street is busy with people. MLS three young children in the street, walking toward the camera, they smile, continue walking until they are out of frame, then the camera captures them from behind, continuing their walk through the barren streets of the destroyed city of Warsaw. MCU a woman carries a chicken, several other refugees. Women with kerchiefs looking over crib. He sits, smokes and looks through papers. Classroom shots of the Goldschmidt school in Berlin, which was created when Jews were no longer allowed to enroll in public schools. I have already been told the report I seek has not been found in the legislative archives of NARA, which suggests it was either never transferred or it was later withdrawn. Men buy beer from a stand in the square. Horse with cart, building ruins. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. The plane has a large cross in the center of it, CU of the cross, CU of the soldier unscrewing something, camera moves in closer- but the shot is out of focus, as the shot comes into focus the viewer can see that the soldier has taken out the clock from the dashboard of the wrecked plane. Kiosk and vegetable stand on the street in Warsaw-three women are shopping at the stand. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. Procession with banners into a church in Lowicz. A woman walking out the door holding a book. More shots of men cleaning up rubble, digging ditches, etc. Grand Canyon. Mechanics working on engines. Quick cut to the village people in church (ends abruptly). More shots inside the mine, the cars full of zinc ore, etc. Woman continues to shops for table service and to a women's clothing store featuring a "jesie" [autumn] collection. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. MLS, from high angle, babies in Saxon Garden (Ogrod Saski) in Warsaw, with their mothers and/or nannies. EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). HAS, Polish army parading through the streets of Warsaw, the cannons are drawn by horses, tanks roll by, men sweeping debris, motorcycle troops: this is a sign/prelude to war. mc N 761, in the Family History Area. Muir, departed from Bremerhaven, Germany, and arrived in New York, 23 August 1949. The next few trims feature a farmer in the region churning a grain threshing machine, with CUs of the mechanism at work. Boats in river, barge. Reading, bicycles, gear, band equipment, uniforms with swastika armbands, eating, trombone, reading paper. The ship was turned over to WSA for duty in Army Transport Service, who rebuilt her to 12,521 gross tons. 2:22 Young people having a picnic beside their car. According to the Navy, the USS General R. M. Blatchford (AP-153) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. This scene was shot in the Pancraz prison in Prague postwar. Directed by Karl Sztollar 01:14:55 Good shots of the digging in the mine, workers leaving the mine. 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. The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides an overview of the Holocaust using text, photographs, maps, artifacts, and personal histories. The couple frolick in the countryside. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witw, in Kocielisko Commune, Tatrzaski County. Shot of the harbor along the Baltic Sea. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Mountains, village dirt road, church, people walking with umbrellas, bicycles, cows. Civilians digging ditches, constructing blockades, dead horses. Men come in and out of room, talking. 01:17:26 Children gardening, model town. These shots are alternately over and under cranked, making the actions of the dancers exaggeratedly slow or fast. VS: Berlin, Germany: public telephone booth, ornate facade of building in BG. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. The people linger before going inside. 01:12:46 In city square, large crowd of civilians gathered, dancing, band, Nazi banners, tables. 01:07:22 Two official men stand at a microphone next to the train and read from papers, a crowd listens. Two takes of this action. German planes, triumphant in the skies, wreaked destruction on the city with aerial and incendiary bombs, while heavy artillery guns kept up an incessant bombardment. VS, the ship named US Army Transport General WM. Refugees gather with their belongings to begin their journey to Canada. Hot piece of zinc in a furnace (the refinery in Katowice), zinc plates being made. Uniforms/gear on street. . TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. VS, barges on a river, train heading toward the camera, then moving away from camera, factory sequence and pan of Austrian hillside. Cars, buildings, stream of water on pavement. CU, village children in school in southeastern Poland, playing ball outdoors, toddlers in kindergarten coloring, with abacus, learning grammar. This page has been viewed 214,344 times (45,122 via redirect). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. A man in a uniform (Polish army) holding and petting a hen, followed by VS of women in the market. 01:07:20 Horse and carriage, EXT palace (Potsdam? Berlin street. BDM girls marching street side, women on steps, gardening. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. at the port as they get on board the ship. MCU of guillotine in an empty room. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make plans for the future. The men hold up the parachute from the plane that has been torn to shreds. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit. Credits: Helios-Film Wien Flag of the Netherlands. CU of a piece of zinc ore in someone's hand as they demonstrate the contours of the rock. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. B. Stewart in 1946. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. Nuremberg is decorated for a parade. Crowd at Nazi party rally in stadium. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. 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. HAS of the ceremony in the courtyard. Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. The remaining trims feature ships loading and unloading in the port city of Gdynia, Poland. CUs of individual Jewish men praying. 01:06:30:00 changes to scenes of the burning embers of the furnace: iris shots. MS well- dressed women, some in fur coats, looking in a shop window- display not visible from exterior. Children at the school playground, playing with toys outdoors, putting on coats, dancing in a circle. 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. MS of a guillotine. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 Shop amidst ruins (pile of bricks). The bear then proceeds to walk into the center of the road, and approach two men on a horse drawn cart. There is a large microphone at the piano, it looks as if the performance could have been recorded, although this footage is silent, and no known soundtrack exists. Marching band and elaborate floats process while spectators line streets. [The yellow benches are for Jews.] MCU of a group of elderly men from the village talking and smoking. The records usually take the form of ship's passenger lists collected at the port of entry. A special case in the single voyage category is the Kanimbla. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. Traffic cop directs traffic in busy town square. CU, woman with camera. The woman looks disappointed and the man returns to his measurements. You are our[an error occurred while processing this directive] EXT, VS night time scenes of the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire. The mound was completed in 1937 to honor Jozef Pilsudski. 01:16:53 Family playing cricket. People reading at tables. Index to GRG 41/34 - Index to ships (by year) and Passenger Lists (by number) 1888 - 1940 By ship name - 1836 to 1900 A woman is selling flags with the eagle crest insignia of Poland. 01:16:32 LS, town, houses, apartments, trees. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. 6. Scenes of destruction in Warsaw and the liberation of the city, soldiers kissing women in the streets, getting flowers, several shots of destroyed cities (most likely stock news footage) 01:21:13 VS of the Poles working to rebuild their country, men and women, pounding in rail ties, sifting through mountains of debris, taking down buildings, etc. Man plays piano. Underway 7 August for the Panama Canal, General M. B. Stewart steamed for the East Coast after the Japanese capitulation and arrived 19 August to debark her passengers. The passengers and the US military aboard the ship wave to the cameras. The peasant women turns and takes a break from gathering to look at the camera. Woman speaks. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 23rd of March please use the following link and you will find the details and all events of this day . Market, Barbican stairs, crowded square and church. Her husband shaves. M.S. City street scenes, busy intersection, buses, man on bicycle passes by (multiple takes), traffic. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Children getting into the railcars with their families to begin a new life. 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. English intertitles. 01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several displaced persons gather around the Canadian representatives at their desk at the processing center (staged). Traffic officer on a pedestal in the middle of the street. Two elderly ladies talking, MCU in profile. Autobahn. 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. Route: Quebec to Liverpool via Greenock. Workers gathered around car. INT, children in the classroom learning geography; pictures of buildings/bombing they drew. The brick schoolhouse and the teacher looking at the girls' work. MS, a woman boarding a bus at a bus stop in Warsaw. Good CUs of teenage boys and girls as they enter the school up the stairs, including Ellen Rosenthal. Interior - damage to Kodak film laboratory where Bryan's films were being developed. Elevator. 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. Sailing for New York 22 April, General M. B. Stewart arrived 11 May, decommissioned 24 May, and was turned over to WSA for duty in Army Transport Service. Several shots of men, women, and children harvesting wheat, herding cattle, and talking to each other and to the camera. A quick series of trims featuring zinc mines in Katowice, Poland (Silesian region). Bread. Passenger lists of assisted arrivals may include: name, age, occupation, place of birth, (image) EXT, Kazimiera Mika's small house at 2 Dalibora in Warsaw. down a main street in Warsaw. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes. 01:16:15:29 MLS, more scenes of destruction. Horses with buggy, jovial elderly man. Audience stands for refreshments. VS, CUs of mothers with their infants, some with a doctor as well: this is all mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940), with more information on particular patients and hospital employees given as well. 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. She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Albany, before being scrapped in July 1987.[1]. Men at their lockers preparing to leave. Young couple walks next to a building. CU, fish in a tank. INT, room of people being groomed. Ship passenger lists can teach you more than you might think about your traveling ancestors. Street scenes in Warsaw- MS of a black man talking to another man on the street- in a shopping district. Map of Austria with coats of arms. INFORMATION CENTER'' building in Vienna. 01:08:24 Hang gliding. "Gdynia" sign at rail station. CU, students reading. Several CUs of crates bearing the names of individuals and their final destinations. She then departed San Francisco 26 June for Atlantic operations. They are play fighting with each other and skating around on the frozen water. 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. (03:30) Audience. Balbina was photographed immediately after giving birth to twins at the bombed maternity hospital in 1939 (Photo Archives W/S 47218). Luggage, CUs. CU of a baby in a carriage. 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. Refugees line up for bread outside a building, a soldier guards the door trying to keep things orderly. CUs of Czech language booklets. Sign on phone booth reads: "Fernsprecher" [long distance] and has a stamp dispenser. Shots of the machinery and process and workers. CU, woman teaches girl elaborate decorative needlepoint in the art school. CU Older woman reading a newspaper. 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.