Overview
- Description
- Elaborate funeral: Body lying in state, many plantings and flowers, guards. Taking up the width of the street, the funeral procession includes Jewish police, rabbis in robes, horse-drawn hearse, mourners with banners. At cemetery, lowering casket, service, shots of mourners (three rabbis chanting, one woman completely draped in black). Microphone can be seen on left side, briefly, held above the mourners and grave markers, 01:59:24. Synagogue service: Worshippers pray. Torah is removed from the ark, men kiss it, then read from it. Shochet: In kosher style, kills chicken while woman watches (very dark interior). Jewish men at prayer: Man kisses and lays on tallit, winds on phylacteries, then davens (prays). VAR shots of orthodox men at prayer: Standing, draped in tallit, bowing (some CU). In prayer-study, group of younger orthodox men and boys (with earlocks, beards) pray across long table.
- Film Title
-
Warsaw Ghetto R6
- Duration
- 00:06:22
- Date
-
Event:
1942 May
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Propaganda Kompanie
Subject: Menachaem Kipnis
- Biography
-
German Wochenbericht of 19 May 1942 mentions the death of two prominent cultural figures in the Warsaw Ghetto - Menchaem Kipnis, writer and singer; and Herman Czerwinski, member of the Judenrat and arts correspondent for Gazeta Zydowska. The report indicates that everyone from the cultural world of the Warsaw Ghetto attended the funeral for Kipnis.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Poor
- Time Code
- 01:57:23:00 to 02:03:45:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2324 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2324 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2324 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2324 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
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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
- 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
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
- Note
- See also Story 2519, Film ID 247 for an earlier transfer of the same NCJF master.
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5372
Source Archive Number: Warsaw Ghetto R6 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:52
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