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Anti-communist demonstrators in Amsterdam are dispersed by police during a night of violent protests in sympathy with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

A big crowd of people standing on a bridge near the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. A policemen walks across a riot struck area, following actions by anti-communist protestors in sympathy with the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 . Broken glass pieces and other losses to the property can be seen. A street packed with a crowd of people, in the night hours. Police breaking up the crowds. A group of marchers including women and clergy walking together along a road.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035859
Inundated houses and vehicles and civilians in Amsterdam as a breach in the North Sea Canal causes huge floods in Holland.

Floods in Holland by a breach in the North Sea Canal. Man looks at houses and cars in flood waters in Amstersdam. Flood damaged material inside a shop. People on roof of their house. Submerged cars and buses in flood. Huge pump stations pump out the flood waters back into sea.

Date: 1960, January 25
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036765
Flags of different countries flying at half mast in wake of assassination of President Kennedy.

Flag at sidewalk stall flown at half-mast in wake of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Flags on buildings flying at half-mast. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in The Hague. Building sign as "Ministerie van Buttenlandse zaken". The Dutch flag flying half-mast behind stone sculpture of the Amsterdam coat of arms. Flags of different countries including United States and England flying at half-mast.

Date: 1963
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035428
Soviet steamer Soyuz Vodnikov returns to the Soviet Union after facing attack by fascist Spanish Nationalist forces.

Soviet Russian steamer Soyuz Vodnikov, also spelled SojusVodnikov (later renamed Kreml’ during 1938), returns to the Soviet Union. Shot up and damaged parts are seen on the deck of the motor tanker ship due to a fascist attack. (The ship had been moving supplies from the Soviet Union into Spanish Morocco, and, on November 13, 1936, it was chased and detained by Spanish Civil War Nationalist forces at Ceuta harbor, on suspicion of delivering arms to the Republican loyalists. It was freed on November 17, 1936, after which it went to Terneuzen, Netherlands for repairs, and then on to the Soviet Union.) The ship is seen nearing a Soviet harbor. Soviet officers on board inspect the ship. The crew members are given a warm welcome on their return. The crew arriving on the harbor dock are welcomed with flower bouquets and hailed for their bravery.

Date: 1936, November
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063418
The Jews work in a Jewish settlement camp near the Zuiderzee, Netherlands prior to World War II.

A Jewish settlement camp near the Zuiderzee, Netherlands prior to World War II. The Jewish settlement camp is on reclaimed land near the Zuiderzee where the Jews learn carpentering, cabinet making and farming to equip them for life in Palestine. Jewish men in a wash room. Jewish men eating in a community restaurant. Men walk out of the community building. Men working in a greenhouse. Cooks in a kitchen. Women peeling potatoes. The Jews working in a carpentering shop.

Date: 1938, December
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073949
Newly recruited American soldiers arriving in U.S. Army training camps; Dutch steamer Amsterdam seized in New York Harbor

World War I Draft and mobilization activities in 1917-1918. American WWI military recruits get down from a railroad train to get to the training camp. U.S. Military officials board the seized Dutch steamer ship in New York Harbor (seized as a neutral vessel during timeframe that Dutch ships under the modus vivendi agreement with the allies were threatened by German U-boats). The ship appears to be the Nieuw Amsterdam. (Lettering behind officials as they board is clearly "Amsterdam" but there is an obstructed word before that may be "Nieuw". Several Dutch ships were seized by U.S. military officials during this same month, including the Nieuw Amsterdam). Crew on the deck of the steamer ship Amsterdam. Dutch flag flying on the ship.

Date: 1918, March
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048796