Overview
- Description
- Traveling shot of Biecz, Poland (near Krakow). CUs, Grandmother and Grandfather Jacoby. Family portrait: Mark Jacoby (donor) stands at the left with his Grandmother and Grandfather seated, and his cousin, Ciela (12), next to his brother, Willis. Cousin playing. CU, Ciela and her mother. Family poses again. Various shots of Biecz homes and establishments. A small train station in Siepietnica village, sign reading "Siepietnica". More family portraits. Children play on horse; Mark with local boys. Group shot of a family in the neighboring Polish village of Raclawice, cow, fields, farmland. 00:09:21 Mark's Uncle Joel, the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust. Mark on his Grandfather's horse and cart.
- Duration
- 00:05:02
- Date
-
Event:
August-September 1936
- Locale
-
Poland
Biecz, Poland
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Mark and Susanne Jacoby
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
Samuel Jacoby
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 00:04:14:00 to 00:09:16:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2834 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2834 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2834 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2834 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2834 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2834 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2834 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2834 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- 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
- Samuel and Marie Jacoby borrowed $2000 from a Home Savings and Loan for a trip to Europe with their sons Willis (17) and Mark (12) from August to September 1936. It was Samuel's first visit to his home in Biecz, Poland in 25 years; he was one of seven children. The family took the SS Champlain and spent two weeks visiting relatives, the synagogue, Jewish communal schools, and the library in Biecz. The Jacobys stopped in Budapest to visit Marie's family and then toured other European cities. They sailed back to the their home in Wilmington, DE on the SS Lafayette. Samuel documented their travels with 8mm film camera. Mark Jacoby donated his father's home movies to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1996.
- Note
- Biecz lies in the hills of the Ropa River, near the Carpathian Mountains. The town suffered heavy losses of population during WWII. Many young Jews were deported to Plaszow. On August 14, 1942, the Gestapo surrounded Biecz and murdered a third of the Jewish population on the market square. The remaining Jews were sent to Belzec. Only a handful survived the Holocaust.
- Copied From
- 8mm
- Film Source
- Susanne Jacoby
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4917
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:05:47
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Video copy of 8mm black and white home movies of the Jacoby family’s visit to Biecz, Poland and other European cities in 1936. Samuel and Marie Jacoby borrowed $2,000 from a Home Savings and Loan for a trip to Europe with their sons, Willis (17) and Mark (12), from August to September 1936. It was Samuel's first visit to his home in Biecz, Poland in 25 years. The family took the SS Champlain and spent two weeks visiting relatives, the synagogue, Jewish communal schools, and the library in Biecz. The Jacobys stopped in Budapest to visit Marie's family and then toured other European cities. They sailed back to their home in Wilmington, DE on the SS Lafayette. Samuel documented their travels with an 8mm film camera.
German soldiers; various sights in Germany
Film
German troops and marching band parade, a crowd of German civilians follow. Streetcar, traffic, street scenes in Berlin(?). Mark Jacoby and his father Samuel take a carriage ride. Samuel and Marie kiss. Jacoby family tours garden, poses for a group shot with some kind of equipment (pushcart?). Circular pan of grounds, planting/digging with equipment.
Street performer; riverside
Film
Street perfomer. Birds flying. Sunset. Boat, river with buildings at shore.
Touring Paris
Film
Jacoby family tours Paris. CUs, pan up Eiffel Tower. Various sights in Paris: EXTs of buildings, statues. French on streets. "John Baillie" tailor shop. Opera House. Traffic. Cafe la Paix. Street scenes. Brasserie. S. Raphael (hotel) car. Champs d'Elysee. Arc de Triomphe. Obelisk in Place de la Concorde. Street scenes, civilians, gardens with pond & tourists. In park outside Paris, street entertainment (band, unicyclist). Leon Blum speaks, airshow, spectators wave white flags. 00:23:07 Notre Dame. Cecil shop. Street scenes.
Visiting family and sights in Budapest
Film
In Budapest, street scenes, Kornhauser family (Marie's family) walking past shops, posing for camera. LS, city across Danube. Policeman on horse. More shots of the Kornhauser family.
Visiting Lucerne lake and glacier
Film
Train, mountains, Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. 00:12:40-00:12:49 Black. Jacoby family touring Garden Glacier in Lucerne, snow, hiking, waterfalls, mountains. LS, city of Lucerne from boat.
Tourist sights in Brussels
Film
Jacoby family tours Brussels: street scenes, EXT buildings, stone monument, street, statue, Cinquantenaire Arch, lion statues, street scenes, train station.
Berlin, 1936
Film
Traffic, bus with Persil advertisement, traffic conductor, automobiles, street scenes in Berlin. Buildings decorated for 1936 Summer Olympics. Nazi banners with swastikas. Traffic. Multiple country flags erected for Olympics. MS, Reichstag.
On board SS Champlain
Film
Pan, deck of ship SS Champlain. Man with cigar. MSs, passengers on lounge chairs, playing shuffleboard, and volleyball.
Orthodox Jews in Biecz, Poland
Film
In Biecz, Poland, 1936, pan of town, street scenes, CUs Jewish boys, including Mendel Halpern on left at 00:09:43 and 00:09:45 (boy with curls). Town hall, Orthodox Jews. Fast pan of shops, streets, pavillion, Jews, the boy Mendel Halpern (00:10:10), Hebrew writing on building EXT, Library. More pan of the village.
Bidding farewell at New York harbor
Film
MS, SS Champlain ship (overexposed) at New York harbor. Pan, Jacoby family members, smiling as they bid farewell to Samuel, Marie, Willis, and Mark Jacoby on a trip to visit family in Biecz, Poland and other sites in Europe.
