Overview
- Description
- Jewish life and the synagogue in Radom, Poland in 1936, filmed by an unknown cameraperson. The film was produced by the Radom Society/Club and includes Manny (Mendel) Sztainberg and his uncles, Jacob and Stanley. Added musical track, not original to the silent film, and captions.
Well-dressed people walking in street, summer. 01:16 Radom Synagogue. Exterior views. Congregants in courtyard. Men in prayer shawls. 03:25 View from window to street. Teenage girls and boys leaving synagogue. 04:05 Families leaving and walking on street. 04:20 Family walking in street with crowd. Husband, wife and three daughters. Many people continue walking on street and waving at camera. 06:04 Procession enters grassy area, perhaps a courtyard, some holding hands in a circle. 08:27 Sign on building visible- "KUCHNIA i PRALNIA" [kitchen and laundry] 10:12 Bearded man in small treed field with wood fence. 10:30 Men playing chess with many boys watching. 13:45 View of building exterior, 3 floors.
14:13 Title card: "We are coming to the Mikwah-Gas packed with people" Low building. People in courtyard. Weather is cooler, possibly in Fall. 14:50 Manny Sztainberg and his little brother Jacob with their grandfather Mordka Grosfeld. 15:15 Many women and girls. Man with two buckets.15:46 Title card: "We are now in yard of Laibish Potashnik Baker-Inzsarshkew" Families of various ages in courtyard. 17:18 Well-dressed men and women outside. Woman in fur shawl. 17:48 Title card: "We come now in yard on Altershtut. Plenty Radomer here" Houses with larger building in background. Many people outside. 19:26 Title card "Now we see the Ezra and their leaders" Well dressed men and women outside. Shaking hands. 21:26 Sign on building in Polish on left/Hebrew on right "Stowarzyszenie NIESIENIA POMOCY BIEDNYM CHORYM m Radomia EZRA"
21:33 Title card: "We see the Bysoilem where we left our dear ones" Long brick wall with iron gate. Cemetery. Gravestones, some close up. 24:46 Men and women at gravesite, perhaps a new grave stone. Hebrew writing on marker. Man saying prayers. 25:34 Woman on ground mourning at gravesite. 28:04 Gated gravesite with obelisk. 29:21 Two men in uniform in carriage drawn by two horses 30:12 Men and women dancing in circles [same location as 8:27]. 31:24 Men and women dressed in white in second floor window. Children in window. Continued dancing and waving in street. 32:34 Farm house that may be falling down. 32:42 Title card: "This is the end of our beloved City of Radom" 32:48 Text (not original to the film) detailing what happened to the Jews of Radom. 33:34 End. - Duration
- 00:33:34
- Date
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Event:
1936
- Locale
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Radom,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Gary Steinberg
- Contributor
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Subject:
Manny Steinberg
Physical Details
Rights & Restrictions
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- Copyright
- Gary Steinberg
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material and you do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Gary Steinberg
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Steinberg, Manny.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Stanley Steinberg obtained the film from a neighbor in California. His nephew, Gary Steinberg, donated the 16mm film original to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2021.
- Note
- For more information about Mendel Sztainberg, refer to "Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs of Manny Steinberg" https://www.facebook.com/outcrymemoirs or refer to the oral testimony at https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47674.
Another fragment of this film appears on youtube under "довоенная кинохроника из радома". It is attributed to Jacek Diament and believed to have been made in 1937 when he visited Radom for the wedding of his older sister and cousin. Many members of Jacek Diament's family appear in this film. - Film Source
- Gary Steinberg
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:45
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