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Isenberg Family Film Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 2013.215.1
Collection Summary
Mark Isenberg donated his grandfather Solomon’s black and white home movies of the Isenberg family to the Museum during the 20th anniversary commemoration event in Chicago. Solomon Isenberg was a successful banker living in Saarbrücken, Germany. The films show Jewish family life in Germany and travel to other European cities between 1928 and 1938. The Isenbergs immigrated to the United States in 1938. A photograph of this collection is featured on the cover of the fall 2013 issue of the Museum’s bi-annual magazine, Memory & Action.
Credit
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mark Isenberg
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Jewish family life in Germany before the war

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1481 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Isenberg family on vacation in Klosters; hiking; boating

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1482 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Snowball fight in Zurich

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1483 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Isenberg family visits relatives in Gilserberg; cemetery; synagogue

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1484 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Jewish family at leisure

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1485 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

The Isenbergs visit family in Gilserberg

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1486 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Isenberg family greets townspeople

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1487 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Prewar religious service in Gilserberg

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1488 | Film ID: 3902

Date
Event:  1928-1931

Sally and Erna Isenberg tour Geneva and vicinity

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1489 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1930-1938

Isenberg family visits Switzerland; zoo; train station

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1490 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1930-1938

Family tours Switzerland; boat tour; airship; sightseeing

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1491 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1930

Isenberg family at leisure; children play

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1492 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1930-1938

Parade in Switzerland; Isenberg family visits Klosters

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1493 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1930-1938

Isenberg family at home in Vaduz; men dancing; swimming

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1494 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1935-1938

Sailing on the SS Normandie in 1938

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1495 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  October 1938

Harvard football game

Film | Accession Number: 2013.215.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1496 | Film ID: 3903

Date
Event:  1938
 
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