Licco Max Haim Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 2015.360.2

Collection Summary: Licco Max Haim was an avid amateur filmmaker who shot many reels of film showing his family in Bulgaria before the war. This collection constitutes our only collection of amateur film showing Jewish life in Bulgaria, and one of very few collections that relate to Bulgaria at all. The footage shows Licco and friends pursuing various leisure activities, such as swimming, hiking, and mountain climbing, as well as a ceremony in which a priest blesses new military recruits in 1941. The collection also includes a unique ten minute sequence showing Bulgarian Jews in 1941 building a road as part of a forced labor battalion. While Bulgaria, an Axis partner to Germany, ultimately resisted Germany’s attempts to deport Bulgarian-born Jews (those in the newly conquered territories of Thrace and Macedonia were turned over to the Germans), they adopted many anti-Jewish laws and conscripted military-age Jewish men into forced labor battalions.
Credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Salvator Haim

Film Source: Mr. Salvator Haim
Date: Event: Summer 1941
Date: Event: Summer 1941
Date: Event: Summer 1941?
Date: Event: August-October 1940
Date: Event: February-April 27, 1940
Date: Event: August-September 1940
Date: Event: March-April 1941
Date: Event: May-July 1940
Date: Event: 1941 August
Date: Event: Summer 1941
Date: Event: February-April 1941
Date: Event: 1941?
Date: Event: January-February 1941
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:00:53
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Consists of 8mm film, photographic negatives, a wedding certificate and documents related to forced labor. The collection concerns the prewar and wartime experiences of Max Licco Haim and family in Bulgaria.

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Consists of identity documents collected by or issued to Max Licco, of Bulgaria, including a marriage certificate, notice to report for forced labor, and decommission from forced labor. Also includes photographic negatives.

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Forced labor battalion in Lakatnik, Bulgaria, Summer 1941

Mountaineering in Bulgaria

Blessing of Bulgarian military recruits

Licco Haim and friends hike in Bulgaria

Licco Haim and friend ski and climb mountains

Licco Haim and friends visit the beach

Licco Haim and friends on a late winter ski trip

Licco Haim and friends at leisure in Spring 1940

Licco Haim and friends swim in pools in Sofia

Relaxing in Bulgaria

Licco Haim and friends on a ski adventure in 1941

Licco Haim and friends on a ski holiday

Celebration and Christmas ski holiday in early 1941

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