Overview
- Description
- Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.
- Film Title
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Wedding 19 Mei 1937 -- home movies
- Film Collection Title
- Wertheimer Home Movies
- Duration
- 00:06:53
- Date
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Event:
1937 May 19
- Locale
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Amsterdam,
Netherlands
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Contributor
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Subject:
Marion Wertheimer
Subject: Alfred Wertheimer
- Biography
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Marion Warner first came to the United States in 1926 and returned to Europe later on. She had a sister, Berthe Schloss, living in Holland. Marion met and married Alfred Wertheimer in Amsterdam in 1937. The couple sailed to the United States in 1938. They lived with Marion’s brother, Max Warner, at 255 West 98th Street in New York from 1939 to 1942. They later moved to Elmhurst.
Alfred Wertheimer met and married Marion Warner in Amsterdam in 1937. The couple sailed to the United States in 1938. They lived with Marion’s brother, Max Warner, at 255 West 98th Street in New York from 1939 to 1942. They later moved to Elmhurst. Alfred became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944. Alfred's parents, Henriette and Julius Wertheimer, had a department store in Magdeburg, Germany and four children, Erich, Alfred, Edgar and Edith. The store was expropriated. Erich was deported and died around the end of the war. Alfred left Germany in 1936 and moved to Amsterdam. Edgar immigrated to the United States circa 1937-1938. Edith died in 1925 of natural causes.
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- Museum of Jewish Heritage
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- James H. Wertheimer, the son of Afred and Marion, donated the original 8mm film to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum digitized several amateur film originals from the Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York) collections in 2019-2020.
- Note
- The 8mm film was enclosed in a cardboard box marked with "Hugo Schloss Vondelstraat 67 Amsterdam W"
- Copied From
- 8mm bw reversal
- Film Source
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: MI 92-0003M
Lender Number: IL2019.1.6 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:17
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