March of Time -- outtakes -- Vittel Internment Camp, France

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2062 | Film ID: 864

Overview

Description: VSs, crowd of internees waving at passing armored vehicles. VSs, people waving to passing tanks. MLS, American women internees. CU, Polish woman and her baby grandaughter. 04:26:02 Aaron Rapoport (a furrier) with his three daughters, Malka, Bola, and Chana. VSs, Mr. and Mrs. Rymanowski and son, Teddy. VSs, three little girl internees hold American flag, one of them is giving the "V" for Victory, the one behind the flag is Rodi Glass (better CU at 04:26:58). VSs, Mr. and Mrs. William Irwin.

Private Eldon Nicholas, who was a Red Cross aide, entertains internee children through the barbed wire with a puppet shaped like a monkey. CU, children and women internees behind barbed wire, including two year old Edith Spielman Frankel and her mother, Helen Hudes Spielman, at 04:27:45. Edith's older sister Hanna Lore Spielman Schrob is the little girl on the far left at 04:27:55. VSs, children swarming over jeep.
Film Title: War Coverage -- ROTO #4
Duration: 00:03:18
Date: Event: 1944 September
Production: 1946 September
Locale: Vittel, France
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: Universal
Producer: March of Time, Inc.
Subject: Aaron Rapoport

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Outtakes.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 04:25:21:00 to 04:28:39:00
Film Format: Master
Master 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 864 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 864 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: BABIES BARBED WIRE CHILDREN FLAGS (AMERICAN) FRANCE JEEPS MARCH OF TIME PRISONERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Note: Eldon Nicholas's son Don donated Kiki, the monkey puppet, to the USHMM in 2009 (Accession Number 2009.203.2). Its chest bears the name "Kiki" and its back the inscription "USA Internment Camp -- Vittel France, Sept. 14, 1944." Below the date are the cryptic initials "J.G.H."

Aaron Rapoport appears with his three daughters, Malka, Bola, and Chana, in the film. Aaron's son, Jacob Benzion Rapoport, was also in the Vittel camp along with his wife, their mother, Feiga, and may also appear in this footage.

NARA incorrectly dated this footage as 1946.

Rodi Glass identified herself in this footage. She also identified her parents Sophie and Martin Waters, Janie Halsted, and Manfred and Margaret Tannen in RG-60.4905. The family was Dutch and were in Westerbork before being liberated from Vittel.
Copied From: 35mm, FG positive
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1567
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 1252 J
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive