Overview
- Description
- Amateur film shot by Paul Engelmann, a Czech chemical engineer incarcerated by the French authorities in the internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret).
Film ID 4338 (excerpt from reel 1): Paul Engelmann in Prague before his emigration to France in March 1939. Paul and a woman smile while holding and petting a dog. The couple walks towards the camera smiling in Prague.
Film ID 4339 (excerpts from reels 3 and 4): Clandestine scenes of the daily life of the non-French Jewish inmates (prior to their deportation to Auschwitz in June 1942) at the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp, most likely on May 14, 1941. Open air shelter. Prisoners sit down, tall fence in BG. (0:10-0:49) No image. Long, single story building with windows. Jewish inmates. Men play with a ball. INTs, rows of bunk beds. (1:57-2:21) No image. Two cylindrical towers side by side. Laundry lines. Fast and blurry shots. (3:54) Men walk between the barracks. One sits on a chair reading. Barbed wire fence. A person climbs down from the bunks, stands at a table and looks through a book, talking to another. Men hold buckets. (5:28) House on the other side of the fence. Unfinished brick wall. Man smokes. Queue of prisoners. Man sits on the ground beside a clothesline. Playing cards inside the barracks. Exteriors in the transit camp. - Duration
- 00:08:22
- Date
-
Event:
circa 1939
Event: 1941 May 14
- Locale
-
Loiret,
France
Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Amateur.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4339 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4338 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4339 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4338 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4339 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4338 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4339 Digital: MXF - HD
Master 4338 Digital: MXF - HD
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- Conditions on Access
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- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
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- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- In process
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum obtained permission from a third-party for digital copies of the Engelmann films from the Imperial War Museums in London in July 2017.
- Copied From
- 8mm
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: MGH 6845.1
Source Archive Number: MGH 6845.3-4 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:33
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