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Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.478.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4916 | Film ID: 2892

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    Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives
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    Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors".

    06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, documents, and photographs, which they preserved in buried milk cans to be unearthed after the war. Man arrives on a motorcycle at a large pile of rubble. Group of men stand at the entrance to the mound where men are uncovering two metal boxes containing the archives. CU as man opens one of the boxes filled with crumbling papers, followed by an interior shot of the five metal boxes being inspected.

    Shotlist for entire film from the Fritz Bauer Institute - Cinematography of the Holocaust and Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive -- "Warsaw after WWII. Ruins of Warsaw ghetto. Cemetery. Transfer of books to Rabbi Herzog by Rabbi Kalman Kahane and Moshe Koss Bitzki. Song "El Ma'aleh Rachamim" with background pictures of temple ruins. Unearthing of buried Ringelblum Archives. The Jewish Council in Poland. Repatriation house in Łódź. Looking for relatives at the Jewish Council, T.A.Z. Infirmaries in Łódź and Lower Silesia. Babies house in Otvoczezk. Children's houses in Poland. Children's house in Otvoczezk, Yiddish song. Hebrew song, dancing the Krakoviak at a party in the children's house, Judith Berg and Feliz Fibich in the dance. Rabbi Elimelech. Fania Rubina sings "ein zwei drei", the song of the Ghetto. Children's houses and school. Youth Groups in Poland: Dror, Gordonia, Poalei Zion Smol; ORT: Communist Youth, training in Filva, Oneg Sabbath (Gordonia), Chanukah (Ichud). Jewish Cooperation, blanket factory. Jewish factories in Poland (cooperatives). Tailors/shoemakers. Pozysalose-cooperative. Bakery (in Łódź, and in Lower Shelezia). Historical committee, preservation of Ringelblum Archives. German confessions, underground newspapers, pictures. Kermisz, Blumenthal and Shapuna. In the archives administration, drawings of Trambetz. Dolls of Yitzchak Brauner from Ghetto Łódź. Publication of the historical committee. Cultural life. Association of writers and reporters, chairman Leon Finkelstein, Rachel Auerbach, Moshe Grossman, Vahel, Vasser, Wolf Yasni, Y Ashendorf, Mirsky, Efraim Kagnofsky, Raizel Zichlinska, Moshe Kanfheiss, David Shaul, Yitzchak Yonsovitz, M Bornstein, Yishayahu Speigel (editors of "Das Neie Laben", M Mirsky). Printing: Keren Kayemeth Leyisrael sheets. Jewish newspapers in Poland (in Yiddish and Polish). Exhibit of achievements in Silesia (emphasizing Warsaw Ghetto heroes, documents, awards for bravery, first Jewish art show, the artist Mandeltzveig, Rabbi Kahane among the visitors, the artist Mushka (cooperative "Konst"). Exhibit of plaques to commemorate the anniversary of the revolt of the Warsaw Ghetto. Drawings of H. Hechtkopf. Portrait of the late artist Wilenberg, founder of the cooperative "konst". Patznovsky, copper reliefs, cooperative chairman. Sculpture of Feingold. Natan Rappaport works on a model of memorial to Ghetto heroes. Jewish Theater, Ida Kaminska in recitation of Lotzki's song "Wedding" and "Bemarleh Afert". Moshe Lipman and his wife Natalia Lipman in "Tevye the Milkman". David Lederman, Aizik Rothman, Kati Ephron, Shmuel Goldstein in "Herschele Ostropoler" and "Motel Peyse". Optimistic ending about Jews."
    Duration
    01:11:30
    Date
    Event:  1946 September 19
    Production:  1947-1948
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
    Contributor
    Director: Natan Gross
    Producer: Shaul Goskin
    Producer: Natan Gross

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    06:05:30:00 to 07:17:00:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 2892 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2892 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2892 Video: DVD - NTSC
      Master 2892 Video: DVD - NTSC

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    National Center for Jewish Film
    Conditions on Use
    Contact NCJF at pontius@brandeis.edu for permission to reproduce and use this film.

    Copyright Holder
    National Center for Jewish Film

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    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of this video from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in February 2010.
    Note
    For a sense of the variety and scope of the materials contained within the Ringelblum Archive, consult "The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide" edited by Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epsztein (2009) or "Who Will Write Our History?" by Samuel Kassow (2007).
    Film Source
    National Center for Jewish Film
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5279
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:59:51
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