Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

Identifier
irn1002728
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.473.1
  • RG-60.3840
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
  • Music
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

*The film was transferred backwards. Refer to the same film properly transferred on Film ID 2257. Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to "Fotografia" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. Two children sit huddled together on sidewalk. German officer standing on street. Crowds walking about. CU, mentally disturbed ghetto inhabitant swaying. Large group congregated in street, CUs. Shops. CU, signs: "Fleckfieber" "Tyfus Plamisty". Pan right to Jews with armbands. Carts/wagons. Jewish market, CUs wares. Pan, building ruins inside ghetto. Bricklayers. Jews in Jewish quarter of ghetto, behind barbed wire, guarded by soldiers. Daily activity, bicycles, carts. Bridge. Closing the gate. Boys running out of prison, one trips and falls. Men huddled in cold, boys in line. Women with shaved heads leaving prison, running. VAR CUs, feet. Corpse on road. Man walking with cane. Police moving body into wooden coffin [quick shot of a man taking photographs or film in the BG at right], ghetto inhabitants/Jews in BG, one with a Star of David armband. Loading corpse into wagon. Girls singing and begging. Crowd forced to move through the ghetto by police, running.

Note(s)

  • The WFDiF production entitled "Zydzi Polscy" ["The Polish Jews"] runs 97 minutes and contains film documents from the archive, added music and sound effects. USHMM catalogs the complete production under RG-60.3834, RG-60.3835, RG-60.3836, RG-60.3837, RG-60.3838, RG-60.3839, RG-60.3840, RG-60.3841, and RG-60.3842, on Film ID 2661. See also Stories 2542 b to 2549 b on Film ID 248 for duplicate footage, transferred in the early 1990s at NCJF via John E. Allen. See also Story 4049, Film ID 2707 for a more recent transfer of the same film reel from the Bundesarchiv. Some shots related to sequence in Story 2539, Film ID 248. See also Stories 2114 and 2115, Film ID 2257 for much better quality and more sustained shots of the prison and prisoners. For similar footage of Jewish police driving people through streets, see Stories 2546 b and 2547 b, Film ID 248; and Story 2114, Film ID 2257 (longer, better quality). For similar footage of placing corpse in a casket, see Story 2115, Film ID 2257; Story 723, Film ID 247 (although those shots are much poorer quality and less gruesome); and Story 3824, Film ID 2324. USHMM Betacam made from VHS copies provided by WFDiF.

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