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Jews with armbands in destroyed Warsaw

Film | Accession Number: 2007.207.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4638 | Film ID: 2842

Jews wearing armbands on the heavily bomb-damaged streets of Warsaw. People on foot and in horse-drawn carts pass in front of bombed out buidlings.

Film Title: Wenn Bomben Fallen [When bombs fall]
Duration: 00:01:04
Date: Event: 1939
Production: 1940
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Documentary.
Credit: Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv

Contributor: Producer: Praesidium des Reichsluftschutzbundes
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:38:16:00 to 01:39:20:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2842 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2842 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
Keyword: ANTISEMITISM
ARMBANDS
CARTS/WAGONS
DESTRUCTION
HORSES
JEWS
RUBBLE
SNOW
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in March 2007.
Note: This is a 7 meter excerpt. The total length of this film is 432 meters.

This is a film that instructs Germans on how to respond to air raids. The "what not to do" example is provided by the Polish reaction to a German attack on Warsaw on September 27, 1939.
Copied From: 16mm
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4985
Source Archive Number: 3292 R1
Copyright: Copyright. Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
Conditions on Use: Researchers who wish to use this footage should contact the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv at filmbenutzung@bundesarchiv.de to sign a release. The online request form is available at: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Downloads/request-for-use-av-material.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
: Record last modified: 2020-04-29 10:34:06
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