Nazi propaganda about Jews living in ghetto and disease

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3296 | Film ID: 2504A

Overview

Description: Antisemitic propaganda film showing living and housing conditions in a Jewish ghetto in Poland (probably the Warsaw ghetto), typhus patients, and measures against the spreading of lice.

Reel 2: Ghetto scenes (in Warsaw, according to Bundesarchiv annotation). Workers disinfecting clothes in large cage. 00:27:54 Man shaving heads and beards, clipping pubic hair. Very thin man seated, with glasses. Man in white coat. 00:28:22 Clothes removed from steamer. 00:28:44 Naked men and boys, very thin, in showers. Man (wearing glasses) in shower, soaping. Washing pubic areas. 00:29:20 Pan of children and others in rows of beds, hospital setting. Some may be retarded. 00:30:05 MCU, pan of older women in rows of beds. Women naked from waist up. Head shaved, mouth half open. Camera goes close up, focusing on breasts. Hand pokes at face trying to open her eyes. She resists, grimaces. CU skin. 00:31:22 Winter scene along river. Barges, workers, WS shoveling material (coal?) from barges into wooden wagons marked with crosses (red? cross in white circle). Snow on ground and on the coal. CU sign: Zegluga Polska s.a. Wyladownia Wegla. Interesting scene. License plate on truck: OST - 10363. Bridge: Zegluga Polska. Tram crossing, carts and horses.
Film Title: Juden, Läuse, Wanzen [Jews, Lice, Bugs]
Duration: 00:05:42
Date: Production: 1941
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Propaganda.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 00:27:34:00 to 00:33:16:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2504 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2504A Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Copyright Undetermined
Conditions on Use: Owner of copyright, if any, is undetermined. It is possible this is an orphan work. It is the responsibility of anyone interested in reproducing, broadcasting, or publishing content to determine copyright holder and secure permission, or perform a diligent Fair Use analysis.

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in January 2001 for possible use in the Museum's special exhibition "Deadly Medicine.".
Note: See Story 3295, Film ID 2504A for Reel 1 of "Juden, Laeuse, Wanzen."
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3240
Source Archive Number: 17427 (E.Nr.223450) R2
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive