Overview
- Description
- Newsreel showing Ludmilla Berkwic, whose father's family was Jewish, playing the piano at the opening of the Chopin Museum in Wawel Castle. Hans Frank and other Nazi officials are in attendance. Berkwic is shown playing Chopin's piano. The piano music continues over interior shots of the museum and its artifacts.
Berkwic's father was Jewish but she was living as a non-Jew when Hans Frank asked her to perform at the opening of the Chopin Museum in Krakow. Soon after her performance she was denounced as a Jew. She and her mother obtained false papers and fled to her fiancee's home in Germany. Ludmila worked as a forced laborer at a munitions factory until 1945 [this information is from Ludmilla Berkwic's website: http://www.ludmillaberkwic.org/]. - Film Title
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Tygodnik Dzwiekowy Generalnej Guberni
- Duration
- 00:01:35
- Date
-
Event:
10/27/1943
- Locale
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Krakow,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 00:32:33:00 to 00:34:08:00
- 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
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- 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.
- Film Source
- Filmoteka Narodowa
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4636
Source Archive Number: GG 5 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:58:42
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