Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.258.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0123 | Film ID: 230

Overview

Description: (LIB 6554) First Religious Services, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Full screen view, crowd listening to services and voices of women singing "God Bless America" in English. MSs, various flags of Allied nations (US, Belgium, Spain, UK, USSR) flying from staffs held by attendants. CU, Belgian flag with "Dachau" written across center. LS, congregation singing "Hatikvah", the Jewish national anthem. A Hebrew prayer is read by a Rabbi David Max Eichhorn.

Inmate Interview, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, speaks in English of his experience in the various Nazi camps.
Duration: 00:11:11
Date: Event: 1945 May 05
Locale: Dachau, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Bushweller
Subject: David M. Eichhorn

Language: English Hebrew
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:00:13:00 to 01:11:24:00
Film Format: Master
Master 230 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 230 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 230 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 230 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 230 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 230 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 230 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 230 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: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) DACHAU DOCTORS FLAGS GERMANY HATIKVAH (ANTHEM) HEBREW INTERVIEWS JEWS LIBERATION PRISONERS PRISONERS (CZECH) RABBIS RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH) SINGING SURVIVORS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in December 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
Note: With Sound. See Film ID 152 for duplicate footage without sound.
Additional documentation reporting Rabbi David Max Eichhorn's depiction of this religious service at Dachau located in USHMM departmental files.

USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2442
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4614
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive