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Carl Lutz Film Collection

Film Collection | Accession Number: 2017.95
Collection Summary
Private films of Carl Lutz, a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest from 1942-1945. Lutz was involved in the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews. He was a passionate filmmaker and photographer. The film collection contains approximately 41 black and white and color films relating to Carl Lutz's family as well as his diplomatic career in the United States (St. Louis, Chicago, Washington), Palestine (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Haifa), Switzerland (Lauterbrunnen, St. Moritz, Lugano, Interlaken), and Hungary (Budapest).
Date
1920-1951

About This Film Collection

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Film Provenance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project acquired a copy of this archival collection in March 2017 from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland under archival signature NL Carl Lutz.
Note
List of films:
296 Hochzeit [no date, damaged]
297 Amerika (Film Nr. 8) [1934]
298 Chicago Weltausstellung (Film Nr. 3) [1934]
299 Eine Reise nach den Vereinigten Staaten - Carl Lutz (Film Nr. 24) [ca. 1930]
300 Reise nach Amerika IV (Film Nr. 25) [1933]
301 St. Louis - Schweiz (Film Nr. 2) [ca. 1933 - 1934]
302 Besuch im St. Louis Zoo (Film Nr. 1) [ca. 1933 - 1934]
303 Bethlehem, Jerusalem (Film Nr. 26) [ca. 1936]
304 Washington - Schweiz (Film Nr. 23) [1920s - 1930s]
305 Palästina 3 (Film Nr. 10) [1935]
306 Palästina (Film Nr. 22) [1935 - 1936]
307 Palestine, the land of the bible (Film Nr. 21) [1937]
308 Tel Aviv, Hafen (Film Nr. 18) [1936 - 1937]
309 Palästina 1951 (Film Nr. 13) [1951]
310 Palästina 1951 (Film Nr. 14) [1951]
311 Ägypten (Film Nr. 4) [ca. 1935]
312 Palästina 4 (Film Nr. 11) [ca. 1935]
313 Palästina (Film Nr. 12, I) [ca. 1935]
314 Palästina (Film Nr. 19, II) [ca. 1935]
315 Palästina privat I (Film Nr. 15) [1930s]
316 Beduinen II - Palästina (Film Nr. 7) [ca. 1936]
317 Bethlehem; barmherziger Samariter (Film Nr. 16) [ca. 1935]
318 Palästina (Film Nr. 20) [ca. 1936]
324 Palästina (Film Nr. 9) [ca. 1935]
295 A Swiss Travel Film by Charles R. Lutz (Film Nr. 35) [ca. 1933]
319 Trachtenfest 1939 (Film Nr. 32) [1939]
320 In the Bernese Oberland (Film Nr. 17) [ca. 1935]
321 A Swiss Travel Film - From Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch I (Film Nr. 29) [ca. 1935]
322 From Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch Part II (Film Nr. 30) [ca. 1935]
323 Jakob Künzler (Film Nr. 6) [ca. 1935]
325 Winzerfest Lugano - Skiferien (Film Nr. 34) [ca. 1949 - 1950]
326 Narcissus Festival Montreux - Jodelfest Interlaken (1933) - Winzerfest Neuenburg (1932) (Film Nr. 31) [1932 - 1933]
327 Mein Heimatland, die Schweiz (Film Nr. 27) [1932 - 1933]
328 St. Moritz Urlaub (Film Nr. 36) [1936]
329 Glimpses of East Switzerland and a trip through the Canton of Appenzell by Charles Lutz (Film Nr. 33) [ca. 1935]
330 Schweiz, Zusammengesetzt P-5006 (Film Nr. 37) [1930s]
331 Budapest wie es war! (Film Nr. 38) [ca. 1942]
332 Heimreise von Budapest, April/Mai 1945 (Film Nr. 5) [1945]
333 Kurzfilme zu Carl Lutz und Familie [4 parts, no date]
334 Kurzfilme zu Palästina und der Schweiz [ca. 1935 - 1956]
335 St. Moritz (Wintersport, Videokopie) [ca. 1928]
336 USA (Washington DC, New York), Videokopie [1930s]

The films are available online at the Archiv für Zeitgeschichte catalog: https://www.archives-quickaccess.ch/search/35

Additional notes:
296: The film entitled "Hochzeit" (wedding) unfortunately had been heavily damaged by vinegar syndrome and could not be recovered.
335: The promotion film for winter Saint Moritz was not made by Carl Lutz, but was found in the video copies in his papers (see also file 336).
336: This film entitled "USA (Washington DC, New York)" had been copied to videotapes around 1990, which are the only copies of the original film roll which is not in possession of the Archives of Contemporary History. The poor quality of the video is due to poor transfer from film to video tape at that time.
Film Source
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung
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Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud in America

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.6976 | Film ID: 4374

Carl Lutz family

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.6977 | Film ID: 4374

Carl and Gertrud Lutz in a garden

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.6978 | Film ID: 4374

Lutz travels with others on a train

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.6979 | Film ID: 4374

Budapest: city views; bathhouse; rose gardens

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.6980 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  1942
Jakob Künzler and Elisabeth Künzler-Bender on a roof terrace in Beirut

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7147 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  circa 1935
Visiting America: World's Fair in Chicago; Washington, DC memorials; New York City

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7148 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  1930-1934
Sightseeing in Palestine, circa 1930

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7149 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  1930-1951
Switzerland in the 1930s; Hungary 1945

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7150 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  1930-1945
Compiled short films by Carl Lutz

Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7151 | Film ID: 4374

Date
Event:  circa 1935
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