Overview
- Description
- MS, men cleaning a freight car floor with shovels. Group of men pulling small wagon filled with empty cans? Pressing cans, separating and cutting metal pieces. 01:34:28 Westerbork's paper factory. Men and women separating sheets of paper. MS, piles of white paper sheets. Large hall packed with women working on sewing machines, using dark colored textiles (for military uniforms?). Men cutting through layers of fabric. Making toys. Shelves filled with beautiful handmade toys (stuffed animals, wooden cubes, etc.) 01:45:05 MS, sign on brick building: TISCHLEREI, HIER MELDEN. Carpentry hall. Sign: SCHLOSSEREI. Blacksmith, open fire. Making brushes. 01:53:03 Shoemakers and bagmakers. Women wearing striped uniforms stitch gloves. Thread machines, piles of stockings.
- Film Title
-
Westerbork-film
- Duration
- 00:29:48
- Date
-
Event:
1944
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
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:29:51:00 to 01:59:39:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2240 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2240 Digital: J2K - HD
Master 2240 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2240 Digital: J2K - HD
Master 2240 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2240 Digital: J2K - HD
Master 2240 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2240 Digital: J2K - HD- Preservation
Preservation 2240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2240 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the archival segments on video from the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive [Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief] in The Hague, Netherlands, in February 1999.
- Note
- See also Story 2105, Film ID 2242 for duplicate footage of deportation. See also Story 2106, Film ID 2242 for similar footage of factory scenes.
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
- NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BEELD EN GELUID
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1593
Source Archive Number: 2-1167 akte 2 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:51:26
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