Child Welfare Center, Cologne; Jewish service

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2046 | Film ID: 897

Overview

Description: (LIB 6893) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 31- June 2, 1945. Children in yard of Child Welfare Center. MCU, young boys playing soccer, brick wall in BG has damaged roof and holes. MS, woman holding soccer ball with children gathered round in yard of Child Welfare Center; she divides them into teams. LS, children working in garden. MS, girl and boy picking weeds. MS, children watering neatly ordered rows of plants. MS, three girls kneeling down tending to rows of plants. CU, girl at work in garden bed. MS, woman teaching six girls to sew as they sit around her outside. VS, CU, woman's face. MCU, young girls. (Synch sound begins here:) Seq: MLS, several women and small children playing in yard, singing a song in German, dancing in a circle, holding hands, clapping. 01:22:00 Seq: First religious services of Jewish community held in remains of a temple. MLS, interior of a synagogue. (Poor quality synch sound) Rabbi and cantor facing draped lecturn, many people are seated behind them. MS, rabbi and cantor facing camera chanting, congregation is visible standing behind them. Rabbi and cantor remove Torah from the ark, walk in circle.
Duration: 00:10:50
Date: Event: May 31-June 2, 1945
Locale: Cologne, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Jack Muth

Language: German Hebrew Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:12:43:00 to 01:23:33:00
Film Format: Master
Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 897 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.

Keyword: CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) GERMANY JEWS PLAYING RABBIS RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH) SEWING SINGING SYNAGOGUES TORAH SCROLLS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1364
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4774
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive