Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview
Creator(s)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- David M. Eichhorn (Subject)
- Bushweller (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
(LIB 6554) First Religious Services, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Full screen view, crowd listening to services and voices of women singing "God Bless America" in English. MSs, various flags of Allied nations (US, Belgium, Spain, UK, USSR) flying from staffs held by attendants. CU, Belgian flag with "Dachau" written across center. LS, congregation singing "Hatikvah", the Jewish national anthem. A Hebrew prayer is read by a Rabbi David Max Eichhorn. Inmate Interview, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, speaks in English of his experience in the various Nazi camps.
Note(s)
With Sound. See Film ID 152 for duplicate footage without sound. Additional documentation reporting Rabbi David Max Eichhorn's depiction of this religious service at Dachau located in USHMM departmental files.
USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019.
Subjects
- RABBIS
- DOCTORS
- SURVIVORS
- FLAGS
- INTERVIEWS
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- HEBREW
- SINGING
- LIBERATION
- HATIKVAH (ANTHEM)
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- DACHAU
- JEWS
- GERMANY
- PRISONERS
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)
- PRISONERS (CZECH)
Places
- Dachau, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.