Belsen: Jewish Thanksgiving Service

Identifier
irn1003837
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.4373
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • The Honorable Hadassah Rosensaft

Scope and Content

Jewish religious service outdoors. Sunny day, large gathering, organized event, lots of people. Young women with arms around each other, staring without apparent emotion. Rabbi holds up Torah. Makeshift ark, tapestry. VLS from above of gathering, big circle of people crowded together, outer ring of people stand on benches. Long line of little kids coming together, join and enter circle. CU, Rabbi reading. More CU of women, very serious, sad, clinging to each other.

Note(s)

  • There is some similar footage in Story 66, Film ID 10 from the Imperial War Museum (Source# A700/337/3). See also Story 2657, Film ID 165 for another video transfer of this film, created in 1987. Original MARS accession number: 145x-12

Subjects

  • RABBIS
  • RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)
  • WOMEN
  • CROWDS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • LIBERATION
  • SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
  • CHILDREN
  • JEWS
  • GERMANY
  • BERGEN-BELSEN
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)
  • TORAH SCROLLS
  • SURVIVORS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)

Places

  • Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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