Removal to Krakow Ghetto

Identifier
irn1002726
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.473.1
  • RG-60.3838
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
  • Music
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and carts. Sign: "Fur Juden, fur nicht Juden. Dla Zydow Dla Niezydow." Busy street scenes. Shops. Baby carriages loaded with belongings. CU white armband with star on a bearded man. AGFA 1941

Note(s)

  • The WFDiF production entitled "Zydzi Polscy" ["The Polish Jews"] runs 97 minutes and contains film documents from the archive, added music and sound effects. USHMM catalogs the complete production under RG-60.3834, RG-60.3835, RG-60.3836, RG-60.3837, RG-60.3838, RG-60.3839, RG-60.3840, RG-60.3841, and RG-60.3842, on Film ID 2661. See also duplicate NCJF footage, RG-60.3819. Notes from NCJF documentation indicate that this footage is probably an excerpt from the film "Polish Adventure II", a German shot film. It is uncertain what this footage was intended to be used for/incorporated into. USHMM Betacam made from VHS copies provided by WFDiF. Filmoteka Narodowa considers this film, under signature MF 014, an "orphan work".

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.