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Sutin family footage

Film | Accession Number: 1999.310 | RG Number: RG-60.4215 | Film ID: 2726

Family footage showing CUs of Cecilia, the daughter of Jack Sutin. Brief shot of Julius Sutin, the father of Jack Sutin.


Film Title
Congress/Family/Freimann -- Jack Sutin -- amateur
Duration
00:04:53
Date
Event:  1946-1949
Locale
Germany
Language
Silent
Genre/Form
Amateur.
Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Jack Sutin

About This Film

Contributor
Camera Operator: Jack Sutin
Subject: Cecilia Dobrin
Biography
After escaping the Mir ghetto in August 1942 with his father, Jack Sutin (1923-2017) organized a small band of Jewish partisans and lived in a small bunker where he was eventually reunited with Rochelle Szleif (1924-2010). They first met at the beginning of the war at a Soviet school. Rochelle found Jack after fleeing a ghetto when her mother and sisters were shot, swimming across the Niemen River, and working for abusive Russian partisans. The couple remained in the forest until the end of the war and were married in a Jewish ceremony in the Soviet Union. They then lived in the Neu Freimann DP camp, where Jack worked as both camp administrator and photojournalist for the Yiddish newspaper "Jidisze Cajtung." Their daughter Cecilia (now Dobrin) was born in the camp. The family immigrated to the US in August 1949. https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/178855/
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Poor
Time Code
01:13:09:00 to 01:18:02:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - reversal original
    Master 2726 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    Master 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - reversal original
    Master 2726 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    Master 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - reversal original
    Master 2726 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    Master 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - reversal original
    Master 2726 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2726 Film: negative - 16 mm - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - A-wind
    Preservation 2726 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    Preservation 2726 Film: negative - 16 mm - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - A-wind
    Preservation 2726 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    Preservation 2726 Film: negative - 16 mm - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - A-wind
    Preservation 2726 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    Preservation 2726 Film: negative - 16 mm - b&w - silent - duplicate negative - A-wind
    Preservation 2726 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
  • User
    • User 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - print
    User 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - print
    User 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - print
    User 2726 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - silent - print
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
Jack Sutin donated his collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 1999.
Note
The film was not fed properly in the camera, so the footage is relatively unclear.
Label on reel reads "Tape 1: #1 Congress/Family/Freimann"

Neu Freimann was a DP camp in the Munich district, part of the American-occupied zone, open from July 1946 to June 15, 1949. Residents - both Jewish and non-Jewish Polish DPs - lived in confiscated workers' housing. The camp became predominantly Jewish with an average population of 2,570 Jews per year.

Additional family photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.
Film Source
Jack Sutin
File Number
Legacy Database File: 4435

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright
Jack Sutin
Conditions on Use
Jack Sutin is deceased and there is no next of kin to permit use for third parties. The Museum has made reasonable efforts and has not been able to identify and/or locate a copyright owner of this film. The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but cannot provide any information to the user about the copyright owner. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used. If you have information regarding the copyright owner, please contact filmvideo@ushmm.org.

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 21:59:27
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Footage of the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany. Jack Sutin became a photographer for the camp newspaper while he and his wife waited for visas to the United States. This footage shows life in the DP camp after the war from 1946 to 1949.

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DP walking in street of DP camp Neu-Freimann. Piles of logs. VAR scenes with the Sutin family. CUs of Rochelle Sutin and daughter Cecilia. On Lulligerstr., Jack Sutin and his father Julius smoking pipes. Rochelle inside house, cooking. More shots of the Sutin family and friends.

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Family footage showing Rochelle and Cecilia Sutin in the Neu Freimann DP camp. Walking in park, Cecilia in baby carriage. CUs, Cecilia taking a bath, eating. 01:03:19 Julius Sutin (Jack Sutin's father) with Cecilia in carriage. 01:04:41 An older Cecilia with two other children posing for the camera and playing in the street. DPs opening a box, shopping at a street market in the camp, purchasing goods, conversing. Sign, "Uhrmacher". Man holding two bottles of wine. DPs gathering for a celebration? DP holding up a bunch of grapes. Cars, bicycles, sausage. 01:08:53 (poor quality) INT, Rochelle cooking in the kitchen. Cecilia with her grandfather Julius. 01:12:10 Rochelle pushing Cecilia outside in a carriage. 01:12:56 Julius chopping wood. 01:13:28 CUs of Cecilia.

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Scenes of DP camp Neu-Freimann near Munich, Germany. Street scenes, DPs riding bicycles. Sign: "IRO Area Team 1055 / Neu-Freimann / Siedlung" VAR DPs, man looking at announcement board, working, Red Cross trucks, queue at "Warehouse". Jack Sutin and another man, walking towards the camera, smoking. CU, poster of "Fusball Matsch" Street scenes, DPs milling about. 01:11:35 Soccer match at Neu-Freimann. Shot of spectators.

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