Third Congress of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany
Creator(s)
- Jack Sutin
- Jack Sutin (Camera Operator)
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
INT, meeting of the Third Congress of the She'erit ha-Pletah in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. Shots of Jewish DPs (orthodox and secular) in attendance, the press, voting, speakers, and the stage with featured participants. Spectators touring a photograph exhibition. 01:02:53 Short dark sequence of Yizkor ceremony, followed by more images of the exhibition, including CUs of dolls. 01:04:18 Participants at Congress lunch, large round tables with white tablecloths, waiters serving food, DPs eating, CU of "Bar" sign. 01:06:17 City street scene with DPs, cars. MS, building with US and Israeli flags. CU, sign, "III Kongress 1948 / Registration Buro / Villa Morgenrot / Salzburgerstr. 45" DPs in queue outside door, waiting to get in. 01:07:41 More shots of photo exhibition and Yizkor ceremony. INT, VAR shots of meeting again, spectators, including women, man setting up movie camera, and lecturers.
Note(s)
Label on reel reads "Tape 1: #1 Congress/Family/Freimann"
Jewish survivors were sometimes referred to in Hebrew as She'erit ha-Pletah ("surviving remnant"; 1 Chr. 4:43). With its own national consciousness and political objective, the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany aimed for emigration from Europe, primarily to settlement in Palestine.
Subjects
- EXHIBITIONS
- GERMANY
- PRESS
- EATING
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
- ZIONISTS/ZIONISM
- PHOTOGRAPHS
- JEWS
- CITIES
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES (JEWISH)
- SPEECHES
- FLAGS
- STREETS
- SPECTATORS
Places
- , Germany
- Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film