US Army and Navy chaplains perform Passover Seder

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.486.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4376 | Film ID: 2798

Overview

Description: Members of the US Army and Navy celebrate Passover, perhaps in Hawaii (the originating unit is the 7th Hawaii). A woman identified in the NARA storycard as Mrs. Linczer lights candles. An Army and a Navy chaplain stand beside her. An overhead shot shows two sailors reading the Haggadah. More shots of the ceremony and of the wall behind the participants, on which is written, "Passover Greetings." Mrs. Linczer and a man identified as Mr. Jacobs of the Jewish Welfare Board join several officers and the chaplain in singing Kaddish. A panning shot of the crowded hall, with sailors and soldiers sitting at long tables. Close-up shot of various people, some civilians (including a little girl and her father) eating. At the head table, the Army chaplain gives the microphone to Mr. Jacobs and the camera pans to men identifed as Colonel Whitely, Chaplain Sliney, W.O.H. Elliot, Chaplain Lutherman, and M. Schnurev, as each man is introduced. Shots of people eating, including an older man in a yarmulke. Close-up shots of men from the head table performing the ceremony.
Film Title: Jewish Passover Festival
Duration: 00:06:35
Date: Event: 1944 April 07
Locale: Hawaii, United States
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:07:09:00 to 01:13:44:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2798 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2798 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2798 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Master 2798 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2798 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2798 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2798 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large
Preservation 2798 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

Keyword: CHAPLAINS CHILDREN EATING HOLIDAYS (PASSOVER) JEWS SINGING SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 2005.
Copied From: DBVT
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4681
Source Archive Number: 18 CS 1152 R1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive