Overview
- Description
- Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).
- Film Title
-
Westerbork-film
- Duration
- 00:03:46
- Date
-
Event:
1944 May 19
Production: 1944
- Locale
-
Westerbork,
Netherlands
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Albert K. Gemmeker
Camera Operator: Rudolf Breslauer
- Biography
-
Lagerkommandantur Westerbork
Rudolf Breslauer (1903-1944) was a photographer and lithographer by trade, educated at the Academy for Art Photography in Germany. He was married to Bella Weihsmann and had three children: Stephan, Mischa, and Ursula. They fled Leipzig and settled in the Netherlands in 1938. In the summer of 1940, non-Dutch Jews were forced to leave Leiden because the city was near the sea. The Breslauers moved to a boarding house in Alphen aan de Rijn and left for Utrecht shortly thereafter. On February 11, 1942, they were sent to Westerbork, where Rudolf Breslauer was ordered to make passport photos of incoming camp prisoners and film daily life in Westerbork. In the spring of 1944, the camp commander commissioned Breslauer to make what would later be known as the Westerbork-film. In September 1944, Breslauer and his family were deported to Theresienstadt with other privileged prisoners and subsequently deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Only Ursula survived the camp.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:01:59:00 to 00:05:45:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 519 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 519 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 519 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 519 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 519 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 519 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 519 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 519 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The film footage was purchased by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 1992 from the Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst Film-en fotoarchief van de Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst in the Hague, Netherlands.
- Note
- See Wild Tape W87 for 3/4" and VHS PAL version of this footage.
This film was commissioned by camp commander Konrad Gemmeker to convince the Gestapo headquarters of Westerbork's vital production value. The Jewish prisoner Werner (Rudolf) Breslauer documented activities at the transit camp with a 16mm film camera. Discovered after liberation, the footage contains some of the most famous and often reproduced images of deportation. The Westerbork-film was nominated for inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register of documentary heritage in 2017. - Copied From
- 16mm
- Film Source
- Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst Film-en fotoarchief
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1121
Source Archive Number: 2-1167 akte 1 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:53:15
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