Overview
- Description
- Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.
- Duration
- 00:09:03
- Date
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Event:
1934
- Locale
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Pacanow,
Poland
Aleksandrów, Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Contributor
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Camera Operator:
Abraham Hershkowitz
- Biography
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Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz was an active member and organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union in the 1930s. He was also a journalist, writing in Yiddish for the Forward and contributing to the union magazine.
Physical Details
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- Copyright
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
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- Copyright Holder
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- This home movie was donated to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 2000 by Lawrence Harris, the grandson ofAbraham Hershkowitz. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum digitized several amateur film originals from the Museum of Jewish Heritage collections (New York) in 2019-2020.
- Copied From
- 16mm bw reversal original
- Film Source
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: MI 91-0007MR
Lender Number: IL2019.1.4 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:02:16
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