Life in DP camps in Germany
Creator(s)
- Mr. George Kadish
- George Kadish (Director)
- George Kadish (Camera Operator)
- George Kadish (Producer)
Biographical History
George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations. He enlisted the help of Yehuda Zupowitz, a high-ranking officer in the ghetto's Jewish police to help hide his negatives and prints. Kadish retrieved the collection of photographic negatives upon his return to the destroyed ghetto. After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Kadish left Lithuania with his extrordinary documentary trove for Germany. There in the American Zone, he mounted exhibitions of his photographs for survivors residing in displaced persons camps. He also filmed and photographed life in the displaced persons camps in Germany.
Scope and Content
A documentary film about the life of the Jewish people in the DP camps in Germany. Children boarding trains. Supplies. UNRRA. Men kissing. Loading displaced women and luggage onto flatbed trucks. MS, baby lifted onto truck. More shots of DPs boarding truck, loading luggage. CU, boy with guitar and other children, waving goodbye as trucks depart. In Landsberg, women with babies and carriages in the park, children playing. Man speaking to crowd, davening. Religious ceremony. Hebrew memorial sign reading "150,000." Pan, men at meeting, sitting at table. Man delivering speech, reading. Crowd looks on. Waving goodbye as jeep leaves. Children after the Olympic sporting events: drums, flags, uniforms, marching. Distributing newspapers. Crowds of DPs. Man directing traffic, car leaving through camp gate. CU, telephone operator. Officers delivering message. DPs talking. Automobile with "DP Camp Landsberg" written on side. Officers salute, marching. Men speaking at a table, passing out certificates to children, returning papers to UNRRA officer. Children exiting school with backpacks, teachers follow. Woman with ORT diploma, CU diploma with name "BLUM SARA". Transferring defendant to a trial. Crowd, MPs. Rally, crowds with many flags. Marching with banners in Landsberg DP camp. Sign reading "American JDC Emigration Service." Slow pan of housing (probably Neu Freimann DP camp), DPs gathering and walking along road. Man with crutches. Distributing newspapers. DP men with baby carriages, families. Bicycles exiting camp through gate. DPs milling about camp, EXT of camp.
Note(s)
For some duplicate footage, see also Stories 84, 85, 87, 88, 89 on Film ID 142A and Story 95, Film ID 143.
Film also called "141 longer version".
Other film credits: Music: Jewish ex-concentration camp orchestra Vocal Music: Cantor Saul Shenker Conductor: M. Hofmeckler
Subjects
- SURVIVORS (JEWISH)
- UNIFORMS
- RALLIES
- EMIGRES/EMIGRATION
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
- CROWDS
- CHILDREN
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- TRAINS
- JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE)
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)
- LANDSBERG
- BANNERS
- BICYCLES
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- ORT (ORGN FOR REHABILITATION AND TRAINING)
- HEBREW
- HOUSES
- PLAYING
- STREETS
- DEMONSTRATIONS
- UNRRA
- FLAGS
- BABIES
- NEWSPAPERS
- FAMILIES
- PARKS
- AUTOMOBILES
- LUGGAGE
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- SPEECHES
- MARCHING
- SPORTS/GAMES
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
- DRUMS
- EATING
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
- TRUCKS
- SCHOOLS
- WOUNDED
- SWITCHBOARDS
- JEEPS
Places
- Landsberg, Germany
- Neu Freimann, Germany
- , Germany
Genre
- Film
- Documentary.