Landsberg DP camp: UNRRA; Zionist demonstration; rebuilding life
Creator(s)
- George Kadish (Camera Operator)
- Mr. George Kadish
Biographical History
George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations. He enlisted the help of Yehuda Zupowitz, a high-ranking officer in the ghetto's Jewish police to help hide his negatives and prints. Kadish retrieved the collection of photographic negatives upon his return to the destroyed ghetto. After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Kadish left Lithuania with his extrordinary documentary trove for Germany. There in the American Zone, he mounted exhibitions of his photographs for survivors residing in displaced persons camps. He also filmed and photographed life in the displaced persons camps in Germany.
Scope and Content
Transfer of defendant to a trial. Shots of crowd, MPs, UNRRA officials, judges moving/walking through streets of Landsberg DP camp. VAR, UNRRA or military officials walking in streets, entering and exiting a building, talking. Children boarding train, some in scouts uniforms. More views of the UNRRA officials on the street. Parade of scouts marching, rally, flags. Some men in suits. Demonstration of DPs, young crowd. Man speaking with Hebrew banner in BG (seen briefly in RG-60.0088). Flags. 01:09:10 Pan, INT, another demonstration, DP officials grouped on a platform, singing, various men giving speeches from a podium, Zionist banner and Jabotinsky portrait in BG. 01:10:02 People in streets, milling about (also in Story 92, "The Persecuted"). Man with crutches. Bicycles exit as the gate rises. DP families on streets (maybe Neu Freimann DP camp, and in Story 92). 01:11:40 Pan of DP camp buildings for Zionist Youth (the Nili group), grass in FG. LS, gate with Hebrew welcome sign and flags, opening slowly. INTs, man sleeping, washing face. Displaced persons doing various work in fields, with animals, machinery. Farm labor. Eating at tables outdoors. Dining hall with Hebrew banner, eating at tables, serving food, and feeding babies. Instructing workers on using machinery for farm work. Nurse treating a wound. Teaching Hebrew. Playing chess. Man with large dogs. Singing, playing drums, piano.
Note(s)
For some duplicate footage, see also Story 92, Film ID 142B of "The Persecuted," George Kadish's documentary film about the life of Jewish people in DP camps in Germany.
Film also called "141 short version".
Subjects
- SCOUTS
- FLAGS
- LABOR
- FARMERS/FARMING
- JEWS
- MACHINERY
- MUSIC
- DEMONSTRATIONS
- KIBBUTZIM
- EATING
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- DOGS
- TRAINS
- POSTWAR
- MARCHING
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
- UNRRA
- PALESTINE
- JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR
- PARADES
- USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
- BANNERS
- ZIONISTS/ZIONISM
- BABIES
- BICYCLES
- RALLIES
- JUDGES
- FAMILIES
- GERMANY
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- HEBREW
- WOMEN
- SPEECHES
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
- SINGING
- CROWDS
- SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
Places
- Neu Freimann, Germany
- Landsberg, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film