prewar Warsaw

Identifier
irn1000618
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.260.1
  • RG-60.0801
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1938
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • John E. Allen, Inc.

Scope and Content

Partial reel (apparently with Yiddish sound track), of "A Day in Warsaw." Various scenes showing Jewish life in the city. Street scenes, markets, the Jewish quarter, newspapers, parks, synagogue, etc.

Note(s)

  • See also Film ID 241, Story 2481 for duplicate footage. See also Stories 2575 through 2580 on Film ID 2334 for duplicate clips from this film. John E. Allen, Inc. (an archive now located at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC) holds the only 35mm nitrate copy of this footage, which likely entered John E. Allen, Inc. before the Goskins gave rights to Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. USHMM ordered a copy under JEA order #1666.4-W.

Subjects

  • MARKETS
  • THEATERS
  • CEMETERIES
  • STREETS
  • SYNAGOGUES
  • JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
  • NEWSPAPERS
  • JEWS
  • POLAND

Places

  • Warsaw, Poland

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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