DP Camp Neu Freimann

Identifier
irn1003621
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.310
  • RG-60.4212
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Biographical History

After escaping the Mir ghetto in August 1942 with his father, Jack Sutin (1923-2017) organized a small band of Jewish partisans and lived in a small bunker where he was eventually reunited with Rochelle Szleif (1924-2010). They first met at the beginning of the war at a Soviet school. Rochelle found Jack after fleeing a ghetto when her mother and sisters were shot, swimming across the Niemen River, and working for abusive Russian partisans. The couple remained in the forest until the end of the war and were married in a Jewish ceremony in the Soviet Union. They then lived in the Neu Freimann DP camp, where Jack worked as both camp administrator and photojournalist for the Yiddish newspaper "Jidisze Cajtung." Their daughter Cecilia (now Dobrin) was born in the camp. The family immigrated to the US in August 1949. https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/178855/

Scope and Content

Scenes of DP camp Neu-Freimann near Munich, Germany. Street scenes, DPs riding bicycles. Sign: "IRO Area Team 1055 / Neu-Freimann / Siedlung" VAR DPs, man looking at announcement board, working, Red Cross trucks, queue at "Warehouse". Jack Sutin and another man, walking towards the camera, smoking. CU, poster of "Fusball Matsch" Street scenes, DPs milling about. 01:11:35 Soccer match at Neu-Freimann. Shot of spectators.

Note(s)

  • Additional family photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.

  • Neu Freimann was a DP camp in the Munich district, part of the American-occupied zone, open from July 1946 to June 15, 1949. Residents - both Jewish and non-Jewish Polish DPs - lived in confiscated workers' housing. The camp became predominantly Jewish with an average population of 2,570 Jews per year.

  • Label on reel reads "Neu Freiman [sic] Germany Jack Sutin"

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