Overview
- Description
- Garden. 01:00:26 Peter Lederer with butterfly net. Lake, Robert Lederer (father) fishing. Peter picking grass. 01:02:31 Nina Lederer (with braids) walking on street reading comics. VAR CUs Lederer family and Emily (Waldstein) Bruck (Peter and Nina's grandmother) in Pacov, Czechoslovakia, walking down village street. At lake, Nina, Peter, and their grandmother on dock, walking around village. Nina and Peter skipping with an older girl. CU, flowers. Canoeing, fishing. At beach, VAR CUs family. Women knitting, blowing up beach ball. Nina and Peter eating fruit (note: Nina's handicapped left index finger is noticeable here). Many shots of Nina and Peter. 01:08:35 Nina and Peter dressed in a military uniform. 01:08:37 Farm in Plana Nad Luznici, Czechoslovakia with pigs, turkey. Nina, Peter, and older girl playing with the pigs. Family walking toward camera. Playing in grass, at lake, forest, picking mushrooms. In winter, children all bundled up, walking on road with their mother (Rose (Bruck) Lederer). Ice skating, skiing.
- Film Title
-
Lederer and Bruck Families -- home movies
- Duration
- 00:20:48
- Date
-
Event:
1939-1940?
- Locale
-
Czechoslovakia
Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate)
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Gabrielle Rosberger
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Robert Lederer
- Biography
-
Robert and Rose (Bruck) Lederer had two children, Nina (b. 1930) and Peter (b. ca. 1933). Robert died in a labor camp in Oranienburg. Rose and the children were sent to Terezin in Sept. 1942, and from there were deported to their death in Auschwitz on May 15, 1944. Rose could have been selected with Nina for work, but she refused to abandon Peter and insisted that all three remain together. As a result, they all perished. Emily (Waldstein) Bruck (Rose's mother) perished in Terezin in 1945. Paul and Blanka (Bruck) Heller (Rose's youngest sister) rented a room from Mr. Blazek in Plana after Jews were no longer allowed to work in Czechoslovakia. When the Hellers were sent to Terezin in 1942, Mr. Blazek hid the Bruck family home movies, pictures, vase, and figurines. Paul never returned from the front with the Czech Army; Blanka survived Auschwitz and retrieved the family heirlooms.
Nina painted "Girl Looking Out Of The Window" in watercolor as a child in Terezin (Zidovske Muzeum v Praha, Drawing #129389). This drawing is published in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (Schocken Books).
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:00:00 to 01:20:48:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2680 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - safety
Master 2680 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2680 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - safety
Master 2680 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2680 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - safety
Master 2680 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2680 Film: positive - 8 mm - b&w - safety
Master 2680 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2680 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2680 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2680 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2680 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Conditions on Access
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- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Gabrielle Rosberger donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2003.
- Note
- Additional family photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Label on smaller reel reads "Zima 1939/1940; Rezie; Ukamery: Mister Lederer" - Film Source
- Gabrielle Rosberger
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4251
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:48
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Home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechovice, Czechoslovakia [Southern Bohemia]. Robert and Rose (Bruck) Lederer had two children, Nina (b. 1930) and Peter (b. ca. 1933). Paul and Blanka (Bruck) Heller (Rose's youngest sister) rented a room from Mr. Blazek in Plana after Jews were no longer allowed to work in Czechoslovakia. When the Hellers were sent to Terezin in 1942, Mr. Blazek hid the Bruck family home movies, pictures, vase, and figurines. Paul never returned from the front with the Czech Army; Blanka survived Auschwitz and retrieved the family heirlooms. The films were donated to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum by her daughter Gabrielle Reiter Rosberger.
Prewar Czech Jewish life in Prague and Southern Bohemia
Film
Home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Prague, Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechovice, Czechoslovakia [Southern Bohemia]. (color) Landscape, family outside home in the mountains, Peter and Nina Lederer in a field of flowers, VAR shots of family members walking towards the camera, eating oranges, CU Ivan Rechts (cousin) squatting near house. 01:05:29 (black and white) Family swimming, tubing in the water. CUs, Nina and Peter. Family walking down road, stopping to pose. Eating at picnic table. Nina pushes Peter on a swing. 01:11:05 (color) Nina and an older girl jumping rope in a park in Prague in the springtime, flowers, women sitting on a bench, walking in park. CU, Rose (Bruck) Lederer (mother) on city street with tram in BG. 01:14:22 Crowds gathered in park at Chuchle for horse races, Czech flag, VAR shots of Nina and family. 01:16:04 (black and white) Peter and Nina swimming, tubing at beach, ducks. Lederer family walking from beach, Peter has a fishing pole. Cart with hay crosses bridge in small Czech village. Mother rubs baby oil on Peter, he has a bandage on his knee. Emily (Waldstein) Bruck (Peter and Nina's grandmother) with an umbrella. Rose knitting. Family swimming.
