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 are rescuing all they can from the wreckage of their homes. Julien Bryan's notes do not indicate the ethnicity, nationality, or religious preference of the DPs, but they are probably a mix of ethnic Germans, Poles, and Jews. **, VS, scene opens with a poster hanging on the outside wall of a new brick schoolhouse announcing the rededication of the school building. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd from an open car. Children play soccer on a snowy field. 01:01:20:24 1946, Warsaw, Poland, MCU of a young boy making the sign of the cross at a cemetery. 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. Goldschmidt School. Formations on field, eagle/swastika. Passersby turn toward the camera. HAS, two men walk on the red carpet in the courtyard. 01:16:49:00 LS, busy street corner with several advertisements for Polish products- it is raining, people carrying umbrellas in the BG, cars, horse drawn carriages, people waiting for the street car in the rain, several shots o the rain on the umbrellas. Different shot of EXT of building with bicycles parked out front, same worker rides one. CU on the book "Beyond Tragedy" by Reinhold Niebuhr. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. Young children playing in a courtyard, moving large twigs around the street as an elderly woman watches them, preparing for the harvest festival of Sukkot beneath the archway made famous in an iconic Roman Vishniac photograph. MS, a horsedrawn carriage passes a palace in Warsaw. Pan, WS, building, sign across top of building, crowds lined up. CU, map of Yugoslavia. City street scenes, busy intersection, buses, man on bicycle passes by (multiple takes), traffic. (Color) CUs, weaved crafts. However all records remain the legal property of the House and the Senate. 01:11:12 More street scenes of Warsaw, showing a kiosk full of advertisements and a flower vendor. Civilians walking in and out of the area. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. Cut to the young women assembled in another area of the field. A group of young school boys walk in an orderly fashion through the city streets, they are with a male chaperone, all are wearing the same cap. Pan over the view of the city. 01:14:55 Good shots of the digging in the mine, workers leaving the mine. 01:15:41 VS of destruction to a cemetery, CU of another corpse. Tracking shot of ship's arrival to NYC. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. More city scenes of Prague, streets, buildings. 01:00:58:05: Julien Bryan, along with a reporter and two Polish soldiers, examines the wreckage of this plane. Workers gathered around car. More shots of this new looking, yet classically inspired piece of architecture with rounded faade, columns, and bas relief designs. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. A foreman barks orders to the workers, he is in a uniform and wears a cap. 833. 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. Kiosk and vegetable stand on the street in Warsaw-three women are shopping at the stand. 01:21:20 Polish planes fly over Warsaw as part of the ceremonies. INT, young men with a coach on a basketball court. Following shakedown out of San Diego, General M. B. Stewart sailed from San Francisco 2 April 1945 with more than 3,000 troops for Pearl Harbor. The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the station. These belongings are all that remain for the Poles featured here who have been displaced from their homes by the German air attacks. EXT, with smoke stacks, refinery in Zakopane, Poland. 01:05:54 Children at party, close shots. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. They pass a man with a movie camera. DPs get off a truck with luggage and board a train. Spectators. CUs. CUs of belongings amid rubble. CU, a young boy sculpts a bust from clay. CU, "Krupp" insignia. Sequence of outtakes. 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. The girls walk away from the camera, with their backs to the viewer. CUs, marching band members. CUs of the cars and zinc ore. LS, man walking along road with three children, a cyclist, and a building with faade under construction. Boys reading newspaper, eating, trombone, equipment & uniforms on the street. Credits are as follows and appear in this format: Quick cut to peasant women walking along the street in full traditional dress. Sign on phone booth reads: "Fernsprecher" [long distance] and has a stamp dispenser. Repeat of quick shot of an older peasant woman handing her bundles to a man who puts them on a horse drawn carriage. Transcription of the passenger list for the SS Rotterdam which sailed from Rotterdam to New York, arriving on 27 May 1887 with 485 passengers from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Hungary, Austria, England, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, France, Poland, Belgium and Brazil. 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. Dumping coal into truck with crane. EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. A woman and a young girl speak with each other in a library. 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. 01:10:05:25 A young priest is present as well. Anna Salen was built as the C-3 class ship M.S. Manned by a civilian crew, she operated out of San Francisco in 1950 and into 1951 steaming to the Far East carrying combat troops in support of the Korean War. Handwriting on the side of the train says "US emigr. LS, MSs of the new city hospital with 800 beds. Men salute from the stands. Old Town Square. Women greet officials, shake hands. LS tractor in a field with farm buildings behind it. What are United States passenger arrival records? MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. Traffic and pedestrians cross a bridge, Polish flags hang from the posts, homes in BG. visitor! Map of the United States surrounding a map of Austria. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. "Gesperrt" sign on Autobahn. VS of a building under construction seen first in LS, and then in CU the men working there. 01:00:42:21 A prototype train car is being tested. 01:06:42 INT of Eastman Kodak Laboratory in Warsaw, two lab workers with 16mm film in hand, trying to clean the mess after it was bombed. 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. Young boys put potatoes in a bucket. Refugees line up for bread outside a building, a soldier guards the door trying to keep things orderly. Car stops, young people pile out and run up some stairs. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. "Meet the first DPs" "Ship to Freedom" Numbers on tags pinned to coats of refugees. Daily life in the Jewish quarter or Krakow. View from afar of a train crossing a bridge and the city along the Vistula river. Market, Barbican stairs, crowded square and church. Upside down slate reads DAY 28 INT 1 ECA. Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. Ship passenger lists can teach you more than you might think about your traveling ancestors. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. CU coach demonstrates how to hold the ball. 01:07:09 EXT, clock tower figurines (the 7 prince electors saluting Emperor Charles V in the middle) turn at noon. Children with backpacks walking home from school. Art school in Zakopane. Coal. Children eating outdoors during celebration, long table, party hats. 01:22:23:20 Location switches to Salzburg, Austria. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. CU, a newborn's head is bandaged. Quick shots of passengers boarding the trains: men, women, and some teenage boys, all are well dressed, some carry parcels, in one shot a conductor is visible in the background and two adolescent boys board the train in the foreground. Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. INT, shots through a window of a window washer. "Polska YMCA" sign. Quick shot of men and women, then of the street and a horse drawn cart passing by. Crowd of people stand outside a storefront waiting for a performance of musical puppets. Capitol building. 1950-09-14 SS Conte Biancamano Passenger List. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. 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? CU, architectural model of Warsaw. Statue of the Holy Crucifix and Calvary on Charles Bridge. Elevator. Rainy day scenes in Warsaw, the same traffic cop we saw earlier is now in rain gear, and still directing traffic. Stewart (T-AP-140)", "Immigrant Ships, Transcribers Guild, SS General Stewart", "PUGET SOUND TUG & BARGE; MISSION VIKING, INC.; NORTHWESTERN CONSTRUCTION, INC., OSHRC Docket No. The 106th General Hospital went to Kishine Barracks later in 1966, and Fellenz said a new hospital is being readied at Camp Oji. Pedestrians on Charles Bridge in Prague. More regiments march by the review stand while officers salute. Janina (seen earlier) and her husband walk through Warsaw, looking at posters, looking at newspaper article on "Siege" photos from 1939, including the photograph of her as a baby. VS, refugees helping each other close and label their luggage for the journey. This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. 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. Of this encounter in 1958, JB wrote "he remembered my gray suit." INT shots from inside the trolley car, several passengers are busy reading, riding, a few look at the camera. A man enters, aware of the camera, sign inside booth; "Fasse dich kurtz!" Soldiers patrol the bridge. Tasmania & Union Reliance Please Note: Firefox and some iPad's or iPhone' s, etc are not suitable Use Google Chrome for this web page to load perfectly!. CU man. EXT, men digging up a road. 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. Some boys in the group also wear berets. INT, Tito walking into his office. They are on the road leading out of the wooden church. Many civilians are milling about. Storefront with Cyrillic sign. Ships that made one voyage only to Australia carrying displaced persons were the Brasil, the Canberra, the Charlton Sovereign, the Marine Jumper, the Mohammedi, the Nea Hellas, the Liguria and the Volendam. Military Guard a detachment under orders of Capt. EXT, daylight scenes. 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. if joining a relative, who this person was, where they lived, and their relationship. BDM girls marching street side, women on steps, gardening. The woman looks disappointed and the man returns to his measurements. Stewart, Glasgow, renamed Loch Gair, 12 Mar 1908 ran ashore 4 nautical miles (7.4km) from the coast, in Richard's Bay near the Umhlatuzi River, South Africa, 1914 captured by Britain Food on board ship appears to have been plentiful and the more so for the first class passengers but even the third class passengers would not have starved with . EXT, Kazimiera Mika's small house at 2 Dalibora in Warsaw. 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. CU, students reading. Signpost: "Wilhelmplatz" and "Wilhelmstrasse." Animation of Hollywood, showing a camera crew filming on a beach. 01:02:12 City, HJ march in FG, church in BG. Quick cut to the village people in church (ends abruptly). Polish officers using horses for crowd control, MCU of Polish Cardinal Hlond, who made several anti-Jewish statements. Longer view of the group crowding around Bryan and Apolonia in front of their homes in the Polish countryside. 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. A plane in the sky. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. SIMSA book. 01:11:36 Boys looking at NS posters on fence, "Der Stuermer". 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. VS, inside a church, CUs of icons. EXT, VS, a new schoolhouse in Lowicz, Poland, scenes in the schoolyard, children playing. Pan, Warsaw. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. Procession with banners into a church in Lowicz. A young boy points to pictures on the wall. Street scenes, trolley, storefronts in Czechoslovakia. Onlookers, small crowd. HJ boys looking at NS propaganda postcards. Man in uniform observes them. Two children on city street walk toward camera. DPs lean out the windows of the train to look at the camera and talk to IRO officers. 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. SG awards, spectators gathered. VS of men and women performing folk dances, mainly circle dances. A nurse and doctor make their way through a destroyed ward full of empty beds. A worker counts the smelting ovens/jets. CU, blueprint of building. Men and women in traditional costume perform a circle dance. VS of circle dances, couples in elaborate folk costumes dancing circles around a wooden cross. Eleanor Roosevelt beside a car shaking hands. 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