Black Sunday; partisans; Plaszow concentration camp
Overview
- Description
- Black Sunday in Krakow. Footage shot from behind a fence (?) shows people being loaded into the back of trucks by German soldiers. Pedestrians look as they pass on the street. Streetcars passing by. People being arrested. Amateur footage, considerable camera movement. Footage probably shot clandestinely.
00:03:25 Home Army partisan group "Kamienczyk". Young boys wearing military-style caps in the yard of a home. They smile at the camera and aim bow and arrows. Unclear if this is related to the next part, which shows the Home Army partisan group "Kamienczyk". About a dozen men in uniforms doing military exercises on a hillside. The next scene shows the partisan unit in the woods performing various tasks. The camera lingers on a man standing at attention and trying not to smile. Cleaning weapons, distributing food from a big pot, eating. Men towelling off after bathing. Some kind of ceremony involving a flag. Next scene: a man on a horse rides up to the group, dismounts, and gives one of the men some kind of written communication. Two men read it and consult a map, which is lying on the grass. They finish reading the map and the rest of the men, who had been lying on the grass, jump to their feet and march down a dirt road.
00:08:28 Plaszow concentration camp in Krakow district August 31, September 4, 1944. The date is what was given by the source archive, but seems unlikely since there is snow all over the ground in the footage. Views from outside barbed wire fence, general views of guard towers, low buildings, barbed wire fences. - Film Title
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The Franishin's film materials
- Duration
- 00:08:37
- Date
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Event:
1944
- Locale
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Krakow,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 00:01:47:00 to 00:10:24:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2663 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2663 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2663 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2663 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- User
User 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
User 2663 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- Conditions on Use
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- Copyright Holder
- Filmoteka Narodowa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in June 2003.
- Note
- USHMM Betacam made from VHS copies provided by WFDiF.
Note taken from Internet: "Wojtyla faced his own dangers from the Nazi occupiers. On Aug. 6, 1944 -- known in Poland as Black Sunday -- Wojtyla hid in his basement as soldiers rounded up 8,000 men and boys in a bid to stave off an uprising. " - Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4023
Source Archive Number: MF 0767 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:25
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