Family tours Switzerland; boat tour; airship; sightseeing
Creator(s)
- Mark Isenberg
- Solomon (Sally) Isenberg (Camera Operator)
Biographical History
Sally (Salomon) and Erna (nee Marx) Isenberg and their three children, Artur, Helmut, and Norbert, lived in Saarbrücken (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Loerrach (Germany), and Vaduz (Liechtenstein). Artur came to the United States to attend Harvard University before 1938. The others immigrated in October 1938. The boys served their new country in WWII. Artur worked for the Office of War Information. Helmut and Norbert were deployed overseas in the U.S. Army. Identified family members appearing in the two reels of family film include (the relations to Norbert are indicated): 1) Norbert Isenberg, father of donor, Mark Isenberg, and youngest boy of Sally and Erna (1923-2004) 2) Sally Isenberg; father (1889-1961) 3) Erna Isenberg (nee Marx); mother (1894-1962) 4) Artur, brother (1917-2006) 5) Helmut, brother (1919-1992) 6) Bertha Marx (nee Salomon), maternal grandmother 7) Alice Marx, maternal aunt 8) Julie Isenberg (nee Stahl) paternal grandmother 9) Sigmund Isenberg, paternal uncle 10) Rosa Isenberg (nee Stern), Sigmund's wife 11) Bertha Greif (nee Isenberg), paternal aunt 12) Leo Greif, Bertha's husband 13) Margot Greif, first cousin 14) Nathan Stahl, great uncle (Julie's brother), survived Theresienstadt 15) Hermine Stahl (Nathan's wife), died in Theresienstadt on November 3, 1942 16) Hildegard Stahl Loeb (adopted daughter) 17) Henriette Suesskind (nee Marx), maternal aunt (1882-1940) 18) Rickchen Stahl, paternal great aunt (1858-1933) 19) and 20) Sophie Stern (nee Katzenstein), Rosa's mother, and Sophie Stern's sister 21) Sigmund Stern, Rosa's brother
Scope and Content
Snow-covered streets in St. Moritz, ice-skating, mountains in BG. Bertha Greif, Erna, and Julie walk towards camera in snow. 01:19:16 They pose playfully on a boat-deck, Sally appears at 01:19:51. 01:20:34 Tourist views of cobbled street, clock on a building façade (possibly in Bern), horse and carriages. CU driver, Erna, and Henriette Susskind in an open car, sightseeing. Hillside with trees and a railway line. Erna and relatives walk on a dirt road, sit at an outdoor table and raise their drinks. The women stand in an open field, plane in the sky. Good MS of Erna holding sunglasses. 01:22:34 Airship in the sky (probably the stop-over landing of the Graf Zeppelin LZ127 on October 12, 1930 in Bern). 01:23:10 Isenberg boys and their mother stand on the ledge of a boat-deck, pointing at the land. Erna picks out postcards at newspaper stand. Boys approach an ice cream stand. 01:23:37 Good views of the Isenberg family - Sally, Erna, the boys, and Alice - walking towards the camera and getting into a car. A woman leads a large group of young schoolgirls through a gate.
Note(s)
See files for technical details about the original 16mm films, such as travel ghosting, film grain, or varying exposures.
Identified family members appearing in the two reels of family film include (the relations to Norbert are indicated): 1) Norbert Isenberg, father of donor, Mark Isenberg, and youngest boy of Sally and Erna (1923-2004) 2) Sally Isenberg; father (1889-1961) 3) Erna Isenberg (nee Marx); mother (1894-1962) 4) Artur, brother (1917-2006) 5) Helmut, brother (1919-1992) 6) Bertha Marx (nee Salomon), maternal grandmother 7) Alice Marx, maternal aunt 8) Julie Isenberg (nee Stahl) paternal grandmother 9) Sigmund Isenberg, paternal uncle 10) Rosa Isenberg (nee Stern), Sigmund's wife 11) Bertha Greif (nee Isenberg), paternal aunt 12) Leo Greif, Bertha's husband 13) Margot Greif, first cousin 14) Nathan Stahl, great uncle (Julie's brother), survived Theresienstadt 15) Hermine Stahl (Nathan's wife), died in Theresienstadt on November 3, 1942 16) Hildegard Stahl Loeb (adopted daughter) 17) Henriette Suesskind (nee Marx), maternal aunt (1882-1940) 18) Rickchen Stahl, paternal great aunt (1858-1933) 19) and 20) Sophie Stern (nee Katzenstein), Rosa's mother, and Malchen Stern (nee Katzenstein) 21) Sigmund Stern, Rosa's first cousin 22) Hans Susskind, Norbert's first cousin, incarcerated in a camp in Morocco 23) Herbert Goldsmith, Julie's nephew
Subjects
- JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR)
- VACATIONS
- SNOW
- AIRSHIPS
- WINTER
- BOATS
- JEWS
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
- EATING
- FAMILIES
- TRAINS
Places
- Bern, Switzerland
- Saint Moritz, Switzerland
Genre
- Film
- Amateur.