Overview
- Description
- ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish grotesque stereotypes, and exaggerates many elements of reality. This German propaganda film ended up on the shelf, never finished, never shown, never given a sound track that we know of. It seems that the development of the war and of the genocidal acts in 1942 probably made this irrelevant as propaganda. Mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto began soon after filming was completed.***
This is an edited version of Stories 2114 and 2115. Footage shows propaganda scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, including processing new arrivals, Czerniakow in the Jewish Council building, street scenes, Jewish police striking people and moving them along the street, boys brought to prison, women in prison yard, people walking in the streets, and moving and burying corpses in a mass grave. Some scenes are slowed and highlighted to show German propaganda cameramen filming in the ghetto. - Duration
- 00:30:20
- Date
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Event:
1942 May
Production: 2000 November
- Locale
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Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Library of Congress
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Propaganda Kompanie
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Excellent
- Time Code
- 01:00:20:00 to 01:30:40:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2270 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum produced and owns the compilation of this content, including its text, images, audio and video clips, and design, etc. Third-party users must obtain permission from the Museum in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ANTISEMITISM ARMBANDS BEATINGS BEGGING CAMERA OPERATORS CAMERAS CARTS/WAGONS CEMETERIES CHILDREN (JEWISH) COBBLESTONES CROWDS CZERNIAKOW, ADAM DESTITUTION FOOD GATES GERMANS GHETTO WALLS GHETTOS GRAVES JEWISH POLICE JEWS JUDENRAT (JEWISH COUNCIL) LUGGAGE ORTHODOX JEWS PAINTINGS POLAND POLICE POVERTY PRISONERS (JEWISH) PRISONS PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH) PROPAGANDA (NAZI) RABBIS RELOCATION SHOPS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STARS OF DAVID STARVATION WARSAW GHETTO WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection - not accessioned
- Note
- For more detail, refer to descriptions of Stories 2114 and 2115 on Film ID 2257.
- Copied From
- 35mm FGM
- Film Source
- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1784
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:43
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