Excerpts from private film collections of liberating Nazi concentration camps and life in DP camps

Identifier
irn725223
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.6950.102
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Item
Languages
  • English
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EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Films by American soldiers who first entered Nazi prison camps in the spring of 1945, and survivors rebuilding lives in DP camps. (19:49 minutes) Part Three of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today-- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conveys private domestic life and everyday activities with a great deal of emotional power, especially when paired with narration about the fates of those pictured. The sixty-minute compilation is comprised of three chapters featuring: 1) prewar Jewish life in Europe; 2) life inside Nazi Germany; and 3) liberation of the camps and the return to life.

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