Unger family visits their Jewish relatives in a Polish village

Identifier
irn1004216
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.139.1
  • RG-60.4733
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Morris Unger, his wife Ethel, and their sons Robert and Sy traveled from New York City to Morris' hometown, the village of Niebylec, Poland (Niblitz or Neblisch in Yiddish), in the summers of 1932 and 1934. The purpose was to visit Morris' father, Kalman Unger. Kalman had sent Morris and his six daughters, one by one, to the United States. Morris was successful in the wholesale produce and frozen food business in the U.S.

Scope and Content

A young boy, Sy Unger, wrestles and kicks a dog in a field. Kalman Unger (man with a long beard) walks throughout the village. CU of the brick house the Ungers live in, a source of pride in a town where most houses are made of mud. Camera pans over the small town of Niebylec, Poland. Cows are led past the camera. A small boy (cousin) slides down a little hill barefoot. Kalman's second wife walks by the camera in a kerchief. A well dressed man pumps water from a well. People sit together on a bench. Sy performs tricks with an umbrella for the camera. A child rocks on a swing in a park in the forest. Pan over a field. Kalman stands with his son Morris (in a fedora), Morris' wife Ethel, and Sy as they look through a book. A man in a cap carries two buckets of water, he was known as 'Yankel, the town idiot'. The Unger family stands outside together, smoking and talking. Ethel looks down at them from a balcony. Kalman and Morris walk arm in arm. 01:06:41 Townspeople walk out of a kosher meat market (Spazedaz Miesa Josef Steinmetz). Children stand around a big car that the American Ungers (Morris, Ethel, and their two boys Robert and Sy) board for departure. Ethel stands with Kalman's wife (in a babushka) and Yankel.

Note(s)

  • The film was originally transferred to VHS backwards.

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