City street scenes
Creator(s)
- Bernhard Schermeister (Camera Operator)
- Dov Kischinovsky
- Lis Kischinovsky (Subject)
Biographical History
The films show Lis Kischinovsky (nee Schermeister, b. August 11, 1922) and her family in Denmark during the 1920s and 1930s. On the morning of Rosh Hashana in October 1943, the Schermeister family was warned of the impending round-up. Lis and her boyfriend left Copenhagen for Snekkersten, where the family had spent many vacations. They were then smuggled to Sweden by a fisherman and landed at Landskrona, where they met up with the rest of the Schermeister family who arrived on another shipping vessel. The next day Lis's father Bernhard, a milliner who is seen frequently in this film footage, committed suicide. The Schermeister family remained in Stockholm until 1945, when they returned to Copenhagen. They found their apartment inhabited by other people but a neighbor had stored all of their possessions for them. The donor, Dov (Bjorn) Kischinovksy, was born in Copenhagen in 1950 to Lis and Avraham Kischinovsky. Dov has an older brother, Mogens, born in 1947.
Scope and Content
Very dark interior shots followed by a brief scene at the beach at Snekkersten and then street scenes in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. "Spredte Traeck fra Fam. Schermeisters. Tilvaereise." [Small Notes from the Schermeister Family. Life.] The street scenes show quick cuts of alleys, people in the street on bicycles, shops, a newspaper headline announcing Von Papen as vice chancellor, and the exterior of the Hotel Øresund.
Note(s)
Elsinore is a few kilometers from Snekkersten, and probably where the Schermeisters went to purchase food and other items while staying the summer in Snekkersten.
Subjects
- NEWSPAPERS
- BICYCLES
- PAPEN, FRANZ VON
- BEACHES
- CITIES
- DENMARK
- STREETS
- SHOPS
- HOTELS
Places
- Elsinore, Denmark
- Snekkersten, Denmark
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film