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Faivel Ziegelbaum

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5072 | Film ID: 3882, 3883

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    Faivel Ziegelbaum

    Overview

    Description
    The story of Szmuel (Artur) Ziegelbaum through his brother, Faivel. Faivel reads his brother's letters and occasionally offers his own reflections. This interview took place in Tel Aviv.

    FILM ID 3882 -- Zygielbojm Camera Rolls 1-11
    In Israel, in several takes, Faivel Zygielboim reads a letter which his brother, Szmuel (Artur) Zygielboim wrote, preceding his suicide. In the letters, Artur describes the powerlessness and guilt he feels at the conditions his family and thousands of others live in back home in Europe. After Artur wrote letters to Churchill and other leaders of Allied countries to no avail, he committed suicide. One of the last letters Artur received came from Jan Karski, begging for help from the rest of the world. Artur tried to convince those in positions of power to help, and even made a radio broadcast over the BBC, but his appeals fell on deaf ears. His last words were a plea to the collective human conscience. The last cable sent to Artur graphically describing the events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was likely never read by him as he committed suicide the night it was written on May 11-12, 1943. Faivel reads his brothers suicide letter. In his letter, he accuses the Allied countries for not making enough effort to help the Jews, and through passive observation labels them as accomplices. His suicide was in protest to the mass indifference of the world. At a family reunion in 1969, Faivel and his family found a photograph of Artur's daughter and wife after they had been murdered, possibly in Treblinka.

    FILM ID 3883 – Zygielbojm Coupes
    Silent shots of Faivel Zygielbojm in his apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel. CU on bookshelf; mostly books in Hebrew. Highlights Adam Czerniakow’s Warsaw Ghetto Diary. Pan of spines on bookshelf, across to picture frames of different drawings and family photographs. The camera stops on a black and white portrait of Szmul Zygielbojm. Zoom outwards to capture the entire wall, with Faivel seated on a couch in front of the wall, looking through a book. Surrounding him on the couch are his brother’s letters and other manuscripts. He looks up at the bookshelf and smokes a cigarette pensively. He looks over the book, open on the couch next to him. He smokes and flips through the book. Image cuts out at 3:26 and comes back at 3:35. CU on Faviel’s face as he reads. CU on his hands, flipping through letters from his brother. CU on face reading. Pan down to the letter in his hands. Faivel smokes and reads the letter to himself. CU on a handwritten letter from Szmul, dated April 6, 1941 from New York. Pan of the letter. CU on portrait of Szmul. Fuzzy image of a hand covering the camera lens. Image cuts out at 6:18.
    Duration
    00:46:32
    Date
    Event:  September or October 1979
    Production:  1985
    Locale
    Tel Aviv, Israel
    Credit
    Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
    Contributor
    Director: Claude Lanzmann
    Subject: Artur S. Zygielbaum
    Interpreter: Corinna Coulmas
    Sound Engineer: Bernard Aubouy
    Cinematographer: William Lubtchansky
    Biography
    Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah
    From 1974 to 1984, Corinna Coulmas was the assistant director to Claude Lanzmann for his film "Shoah." She was born in Hamburg in 1948. She studied theology, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne and Hebrew language and Jewish culture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and INALCO in Paris. She now lives in France and publishes about the Five Senses. http://www.corinna-coulmas.eu/english/home-page.html

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3883 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 3882 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative - B-wind
      Master 3882 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - magnetic - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3882 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 3882 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative - B-wind
      Master 3882 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - magnetic - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3882 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 3882 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative - B-wind
      Master 3882 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - magnetic - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3882 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative
      Master 3882 Film: negative - 16 mm - color - original negative - B-wind
      Master 3882 Film: full-coat mag track - 16 mm - sound - magnetic - workprint
      Master 3883 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3882 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - workprint
      Master 3623 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3623 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3623 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3623 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3624 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3624 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3624 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3624 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3625 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3625 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3625 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound
      Master 3625 Audio: Audiotape (reel-to-reel) - 1/4 inch - magnetic - sound

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel
    Conditions on Use
    Third party must sign the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's SHOAH Outtakes Film License Agreement in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Shoah outtakes from Claude Lanzmann on October 11, 1996. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection is now jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
    Note
    Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it "a masterpiece" and a "monument against forgetting." The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.

    Members of the Zygielbojm family pose at the dinner table in Warsaw in 1936. Pictured standing behind, from left to right, are: Avraham and Faivel Zygielbojm. Seated, from left to right, are: Reuven; Henia, and Hava Zygielbojm. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1096954&search=&index=7
    Film Source
    Claude Lanzmann
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 6006
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:08:24
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