Overview
- Description
- Home movies of the Ascher Family, featuring daily life and vacation outings of this German-Jewish family in the 1930s. The Aschers immigrated to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. The Ascher family outings were mainly in Saarow-Pieskow, near Berlin. They visited a pension owned by Paul and Lotte Zeidler, a Jewish family who went to Shanghai when they left Berlin. Their son, Rolf, is shown in some scenes. The pension was named PAROLO after Paul, Rolf, and Lotte [this name can be seen on a powerboat later]. The Aschers visited in both summer and winter; trips became more frequent as the situation in Berlin grew dire.
00:01:35 Winter outing in Saarow-Pieskow in 1931. Shots of Hans Ascher and Ilse (Lande) Ascher (in the fur coat) and Rolf Zeidler. Ice skating, dog (named Timmy), dancing, shoveling snow to ice skate.
00:02:25 In springtime in Saarow-Pieskow, family eating at restaurant, lounging, playing in the park, posing on path for the camera. Shots include Werner David, a close Ascher Family friend who as an avid amateur photographer did most of the filming.
00:03:09 INT, Ilse Ascher after the birth of her son Wolfgang (Wolfi) on November 5, 1930. CUs, baby Wolfi.
00:03:30 Wolfi with his mom Ilse in Berlin. Other family members, including Hans's mother Helene Luise (Jaroczynski) Ascher and her brother Carl, and the nurse crowd around carriage.
00:03:47 Wolfi in carriage in park in Berlin, rocking.
00:04:00 Another shot of the baby Wolfi in the carriage on street with a winter hat (colder weather). CUs family members and another child. Wolfi clapping, children. Several shots of family walking towards the camera, pushing carriage.
00:04:49 In summer, Wolfi playing in garden with his mom.
00:05:08 Bathing 2 year old Wolfi in the lake in Bad Saarow, playing with ball, CUs, Ilse.
00:05:30 In front of house at PAROLO in Saarow-Pieskow, Ilse, Wolfi, and Ilse's parents Paul Lande and Marie (Meyer-Hirschfeld) Lande eating, playing, in garden.
00:05:38 Skiing and sledding in Switzerland, circa 1935. Various shots of Wolfi, Werner David, and Ilse. with church in BG. CU, family posing on sled, large administrative building in BG.
00:07:23 Sledding amidst trees in Switzerland. Wolfi sledding with Hans. Dog named Lucky (left behind when the family left Germany).
00:07:49 Ilse bathing Gabriele (Gaby) Ascher in bath in 1936.
00:07:55 Ilse with Gaby, posing in front of house. Gaby trying to crawl in the garden, crying.
00:08:15 Rowboat in Bad Saarow. Wolfi playing with a girl near an outdoor table, filling water tank, and picking berries.
00:09:06 Blurry shots of Ilse with baby Gaby, crying while trying to crawl.
00:09:23 In Bad Saarow, Werner David swimming in lake, Hans and Werner waterskiing. Giving a child a piggyback ride that lands him in the lake. - Film Title
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Ascher family vacationing -- home movies
- Duration
- 00:08:42
- Date
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Event:
1930-1936
- Locale
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Switzerland
Berlin, Germany
Bad Saarow, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dina L. Michels and Jewish Museum Berlin
- Contributor
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Camera Operator:
Werner David
Subject: Hans Ascher
- Biography
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Werner David was born in Berlin on September 4, 1903. He died in Berlin on January 17, 1989. He was the son of Albert David and Berta (Betty) David (geb. Weinberg) of Berlin. His father was a prominent banker and member of the Berlin Stock Exchange. Until his immigration to Palestine in 1938, Werner David was also a banker at his father's bank and was also a member of the Berlin Stock Exchange. He won many prizes in motorcycle, automobile, and boat races. He never married and had no children. His address in Berlin was Wilmersdorf, Prinzregentenstr. 6. Werner David was an old and close family friend of the Ascher family. He left Berlin with the Ascher family and lived with them for most of his life after immigrating to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. He and Hans Ascher were business partners, first in Palestine/Israel where they owned an operated a taxi company, and later in Los Angeles, where they owned and operated a gas station.
Hans Ascher (1902-1973) was employed by his father-in-law Paul Lande (1869-1936) and his uncle Carl Jaroczynksi (1874-1955) in the knitting factory "Felix Lande - Strumpf Strickerei, Tricotagen und Strickgarn Fabrik." Carl encouraged Hans to pursue his partner's daughter Ilse (1908-1982) after he was brought into the business. Ilse married Hans in Berlin on October 27, 1928. Before immigrating to Palestine in 1938, the Aschers often went on holiday to Saarow-Pieskow, near Berlin, with their children Wolfgang (1930-1992) and Gabriele (b. 1936). In Palestine, they settled in Ramat-Gan with Werner David (1903-1989), a close family friend who filmed most of these home movies, where they owned and operated a taxi company for 20 years. In 1959, Hans and Ilse moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Wolfgang immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, and after graduating from high school in New York, served in the U.S. Air Force. He changed his name to Robert William Asher after becoming a U.S. citizen and had two children with his wife Marie Freidin. Gabriele served in the Israeli Army before immigrating to the U.S. in 1957. She married Joseph Michels in 1959, had two children, and lives in State College, PA.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:01:35:00 to 00:10:17:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2761 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - small
Master 2761 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - small
Master 2761 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - small
Master 2761 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - small- Preservation
Preservation 2761 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2761 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2761 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2761 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Dina Michels, Jewish Museum Berlin
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Dina L. Michels, the daughter of Gabriele Ascher Michels, and the Jewish Museum Berlin for permission to reproduce and use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Dina Michels
Jewish Museum Berlin
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Permission granted by Dina L. Michels, the daughter of Gabriele Ascher Michels, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on November 20, 2004. The Jewish Museum Berlin donated a DigiBeta copy of the film to the Museum in 2005.
- Note
- Refer to detailed film notes prepared by Gabriele Ascher Michels in 2001 located in Film Archive files.
- Film Source
- Jewish Museum Berlin
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4490
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 08:03:10
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Ascher Family home movies: skiing in Switzerland
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Home movies of the Ascher Family, featuring daily life and vacation outings of this German-Jewish family in the 1930s. The Aschers immigrated to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. "Engelberg Februar 1930" Skiing in Engelberg, Switzerland. Mountains, tram, Hans Ascher and Ilse Ascher entering ski lift, Hans is waving. Aerial shots from lift. Mountain scenery. Men downhill skiing. Spectators, ski jumping competition. CUs, competitors with numbers on their chests. Scenery, slopes. 00:23:42 Ascher family having lunch on the mountain. Aerial shots of town, ice skating, rink. Ski slope. 00:26:19 Still photographs of skiing in Switzerland.
