Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the ghetto
Overview
- Description
- Propaganda footage comparing rich and poor Jews in the ghetto. Footage showing naked religious Jews (first men, then women) bathing in a public bathhouse (mikvah). Good shots of people buying and selling all sorts of wares. Many armbands visible. Overhead panning shots of vendors at stalls, one with a sign reading "Lodu." Dirty courtyard of a house with children. 00:18:14 Men and women sunbathe by the Warsaw ghetto wall. Interior of a dirty, poor house with a large family, including a sick child in bed. 00:20:45 "Rich" Jews arrive at a residence where the door is opened by a maid. Interior of a clean, prosperous house where a woman sits at a vanity table and looks in a mirror and fixes her hair. People having tea and being attended by a maid. Camera pans around room and out of window, where the ghetto bridge and wall can be seen. Street scenes showing beggars, crowds. Vendors, two very small children lingering by a tray piled with baked goods of some kind. Commerce at market stalls. Woman in a patterned dress sniffs meat before it is cut. Man in stall weighs goods. CU, hands exchanging money. Pan of line of men sitting against a building, including an old white-haired man with a cane. Corpse lies along building. 00:26:19 Quality of the footage deteriorates. More street scenes with very emaciated children and adults sitting on the street as better-off people pass by. A religious Jewish man begs for money and then buys a piece of bread. More street scenes, children, shop owners. 00:29:39 A man doffs his hat for the German cameraman as he walks by. Children riding on the back of a streetcar. Shots of terribly thin disheveled people dressed in rags alternating with well-dressed people. 00:31:10 Interior of a house with very thin, sick-looking children. Street scenes. High angle shot, children in a courtyard.
- Film Title
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Warsaw Ghetto, Reels 3,4,5,8
- Duration
- 00:18:35
- Date
-
Event:
1942/1943
- Locale
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Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Propaganda Kompanie
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 00:13:58:00 to 00:32:33:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- Conditions on Use
- Contact FINA customer service team at dokument@fina.gov.pl for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- Filmoteka Narodowa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in May 2004.
- Note
- See Stories 2530, 2533, 2535 (part), and 2537 on Film ID 248 for duplicate footage of the sequence between 00:26:19 and 00:32:33 on this tape.
See all of Film IDs 247 and 248 from NCJF with title Warsaw Ghetto for other reels of this film. - Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4635
Source Archive Number: MF 0145 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:28
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