Outdoor celebration; holy communion; Vasilevsky family at leisure
Creator(s)
- Ukrainian Museum-Archives of Cleveland
- George T. Vasilevsky (Camera Operator)
Biographical History
George Vasley (born Vasilevsky 1902-1977) was a civil engineer born in the Ukraine. He served in the Ukrainian National Army as a cavalry officer. He fled to Czechoslovakia in 1923 after the Russian Revolution. He married Elizabeth Buazdil (b. 1909) in 1933 in Slovakia. They had three children: Emma (b. 1934), George (b. 1936), and Helen (b. 1943). George was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Poland from which he escaped after 30 months. He emigrated to the United States from Regensburg, Germany in 1947; his wife and children joined him two years later in 1949. The family settled in Harrisburg, PA. George Vasley was a bridge designer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
Scope and Content
"AGFA 8 1941" Outdoor celebration with families, many smiling for the camera, eating and drinking. Some men in uniform. 01:04:50 Elizabeth, Emma, and George Vasilevsky pose for the camera. Woman with striped jacket. (This event could be "Mayales in Kvetnica. Liptaks, Stofkos, Strakas, etc" according to the canister). 01:06:28 Emma and George sit on a blanket outdoors, blooming trees. Girls dance in traditional costume. Slovak flag. Families at leisure. 01:09:42 First holy communion for Emma and her friends. The girls pose. Mothers talk. CUs, Emma. George biking in yard. Church of Saint Mary in Spišská Nová Ves. Elizabeth and Emma walk along the road. They pose with George. Emma walks in the main city square. Gardening at home with friend Vitia. CU, man says something to the cameraman. Emma in her communion dress. Picnicking along the Hrabusicka road and creek. Throwing stones in the creek, hiking. Automobile on road. 01:18:47 Gardening at home. 01:19:20 MS, cameraman George Vasilevsky, smoking. Emma on a grassy hillside. The Vasilevsky family fishes in the river.
Note(s)
Notes inside canister: "No. 5. 1941 Spišská Nová Ves. Mayales in Kvetnica. Liptaks, Stofkos, Strakas, etc. Our children at home and at Cingov. Our gardening, and Vitia. Along the Hrabusicka road and creek. Jurka bikling. All family in the city park." At the same time as this movie was taken, the Holocaust in Slovakia and in Spisska Nova Ves had already started.
Subjects
- CHILDREN
- CHURCHES
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- EATING
- DANCING
- CEREMONIES
- FAMILIES
Places
- Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
Genre
- Film
- Amateur.