Remarks |
1. Das Filmmaterial wurde Anfang 1944 von Rudolf Werner Breslauer im Auftrag des Westerborker Lagerkommandanten SS-Obersturmführer Albert Konrad Gemmeker in 16 mm gedreht. Der Fotograf und Kameramann Breslauer, der im Februar 1942 nach Westerbork verschleppt und am 4. September 1944 von dort nach Auschwitz deportiert wurde, hatte wurde am 3. Juli 1904 in München geboren. Nach dem Studium an der Akademie für Kunstphotographie arbeitete er in der Druckerei seines Großvaters in München. 1938 flieht er mit seiner Frau und den Kindern nach Holland, wo er als Lithograf in Leiden tätig ist. Im Februar 1942 erfolgt seine Deportation nach Westerbork. Hier wurde er von Gemmeker mit der Anfertigung von Paßfotos der jüdischen Häftlinge beauftragt. Breslauer starb kurz nach seiner Ankunft in Auschwitz am 24. Oktober 1944. |
Bibliography |
- Skirball, Sheba F.: Films of the Holocaust. An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. New York, NY: Garland, 1990
- Lindwer, Willy: Kamp van Hoop en Wanhop. Getuigen van Westerbork1939-1945. Amstelveen: Uitgeverij Balans, 1990 |
Contents (detailed) |
Shotlist:
=== Reel 1:
- German officers board the train as it leaves the station
- Train leaving
- On the platform, people with luggage board the train
- German soldiers and officers watch the boarding of the train
- Closing of "cattle car" doors
- Inside a car
- The paltform is empty except for groups of Germans
- The train leaves
- German officers, in group, check lists
- Crowd on the platform waiting to board the train
- Carts with luggage
- Westerbork camp: gymnastics
- The show, two pianos and orchestra in pit
- On the stage, curtain rises, five people sitting
- Duet of "Laurel and Hardy"
- Monologuist
- Violinist
- Kevue girl
- Piano and orchestra, couple dancing, young women in white dress dancing and performing
- Two comedians, sketch at three, finale
- Westerbork inmates (women) working at construction works outside the camp, brick loading
- Construction site
- Men, Westerbork inmates, working at netal recuperation outfit
- Indoors brushes factory work
- Shoe repair workshop, shoe factory. (all the workers wear the star of David on the front of their clothes)
- Knitting workshop
- Nylon or silk stockings repair shop.
- Unloading old batteries from train car onto a small cart
- Inside battery factory
- Cutting old batteries into pieces
- Piles of old batteries
- Big workshop, at big tables inmates dismount old batteries and put aside usable parts
- The making of new batteries, using old parts, soldering carbon elements
- Big workshop with people working at recuperating tin foil from chocolate wrappings
- Big confection factory with various departments
- Soft toy factory
- Wooden toy workshop
- Hand painting of toys and air brush decorating
- Two more workshops
- One big steam-ironing outfit
- Laundry
- Hand ironing
- Chemical laboratory
- Outside the barracks, sign:Dental clinic over the corner
- Inside the dental clinic
- Men and Women unloading planks from train wagon
- Inmates at work building more camp barracks
- Building of a hot-house
- Planting of flowers in the hot-house
- Third class voyageur train arrives at Westerbork train station
- On the platform Dutch policemen and workers with armband
- Wait the new-comers
- New-comers get off train with luggage, some German soldiers standing around
- Women
- Men and children
- Many German soldiers and officers on the platform
- Some more new-arrivals, are aligned along the train, marched off
- Westerbork camp registration office
- New-arrivals being registered at tables manned by administration workers with typewriters
- End Reel One
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=== Reel 2
- Workshop for straw hand-bags, and shoe soles
- Gloves
- Construction detail
- Loading bricks from barge onto rail truck
- Typical Dutch canal
- Ride on rail trucks loaded with cricks to the camp
- Pigstyes
- Chicken farm
- Worker with child and veal
- Cows in pasture
- Milking a cow
- Goats
- End |