Magazine advertisement for the film “Hitler’s Children” (1943)
Extent and Medium
Overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm)
Creator(s)
- Ken Sutak (Compiler)
- RKO Radio Pictures (Distributor)
- RKO Radio Pictures (Production Company)
Biographical History
The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
Archival History
The advertisement was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur
Scope and Content
Magazine advertisement for the American feature film, “Hitler’s Children,” released by RKO Radio Pictures in January 1943.“Hitler’s Children” was adapted from Gregor Ziemer’s novel, “Education For Death,” which was based on the author’s experiences and observations as the former headmaster of Berlin’s American Colony School. The film focuses on a young American woman in Germany, who denounces Nazi ideology and the state-sanctioned treatment of women as vessels for procreation, and is forced into a labor camp. After running away, she is subjected to public flogging and is eventually executed. The film was one of the first of several films to feature the theme of women persecuted by Nazi Germany. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Single-page advertisement containing three scene stills from a movie, removed from a magazine that originally contained a larger photographic spread. The top half of the page features a large, black-and-white photograph of Nazi group leaders standing on top of a tall platform, decorated with flags and curtains with swastikas. To the left and right of the platform are groups of boys in Hitler Youth uniforms, looking at the leaders. Both the leaders and boys have their right arms raised in a Nazi salute. Below the large photograph are three columns of black text containing the film title and synopsis. At the bottom of the page are two, square, black-and-white photographs. On the left is a group of boys and girls fighting outside of a school, and on the right is an orderly classroom scene with boys in matching uniforms, facing a uniformed teacher. There is a caption above each small image, and below the larger one. On the back of the page, is a large hotel advertisement.
People
- Granville, Bonita, 1923-1988.
- Holt, Tim, 1918-1973.
- Warner, H. B. (Henry Byron), 1876-1958.
- Ziemer, Gregor, 1899-1982.
- Muir, Gavin, 1909-1972.
- Whitley, Crane.
Subjects
- Women in motion pictures.
- Feature films.
- Nazis in motion pictures.
- Germany.
- Captivity in motion pictures.
- National socialism in motion pictures.
- Film adaptations.
- United States.
- Hitler’s children (Motion picture : 1943)
- Germans in motion pictures.
Genre
- Object
- Information Forms
- Promotional materials.
- Newspapers.