Begging; shops with food; children smuggling (staged)

Identifier
irn1000403
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.262.1
  • RG-60.2538
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Propaganda Kompanie (Producer)
  • National Center for Jewish Film

Scope and Content

Beggars by shop window full of food. Woman buys lavish sweets from vendor. VAR shots of stores full of goods. Boy tries to steal a loaf of bread and shop-owner swats at him with a stick, then looks into camera. Children break through and then come through hole in brick wall, smuggling food. Note: Ghetto diaries document the staging of these scenes.

Note(s)

  • Burn-in time codes appear on Betacam SP version (Protection copy) as well as the VHS. NCJF can make their one-inch version available on a loan basis. The digital files made from videotape in 2014 were not clipped properly.

Subjects

  • POLAND
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
  • SMUGGLING
  • BEGGING
  • WARSAW GHETTO
  • GHETTOS
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)
  • FOOD
  • GHETTO WALLS
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • STARVATION

Places

  • Warsaw, Poland

Genre

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