Summertime leisure; paying a visit to the cemetery
Creator(s)
- George T. Vasilevsky (Camera Operator)
- Ukrainian Museum-Archives of Cleveland
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
Jirka (George) and Emma Vasilevsky at home in late summer. Together, they ride an adult bicycle. They swim in a shallow pool. 00:03:18 Emma accompanies George to the school for registration in first class. INT, mother Elizabeth eats at the table with the children. George flips the pages of a photo album with Emma and George. MS, George poses for the camera on his first day of school. George and a younger boy play on a rocking horse in the garden (probably "Strakova with her boy" according to the canister). Emma and George share a lounge chair and play in the sand while the mothers rest in the shade. The children in costume perform a play in the yard. 00:07:48 In town of Spišská Nová Ves, a woman approaches the camera. Herd of cows. Pan, LS, Spišská Nová Ves. George Vasilevsky slowly walks towards the camera with others. CUs, toddler. 00:09:45 MS, square in the city, camera focuses on a family of three. CU Emma with glasses. A couple laughs. CUs, baby (probably with "A. Persidsky and Anna with the baby Peter", according to the canister). Elizabeth with a bouquet of flowers at the cemetery. CU, headstone: "Mikulas Udut hrdinsky padol za slobodu Slovenska vr 1939. Cest jeho pamiatke! Na straz!Hlinkova Garda" The children and many others examine graves at the cemetery.
Note(s)
Notes inside canister: "No. 9.1942 Spišská Nová Ves. Jirka and Emma at home. Emma accompanying Jirka to the school for registration in first class. Strakova with her boy. On the cemetery: Mom, Stracelsky, A. Persidsky and Anna with the baby Peter. At the same time as this movie was taken, the Holocaust in Slovakia and in Spisska Nova Ves had already started.
Subjects
- CHILDREN
- FLOWERS
- CEMETERIES
- PLAYING
- GRAVES
- SUMMER
- CITIES
- FAMILIES
- CHILDREN
Places
- Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
Genre
- Amateur.
- Film