Contents (detailed) |
Shotlist (- ft):
Reel 1:
- 000 CREDITS
- 011 Refugees on the way back to their lands after WWII on foot, on trucks, on trains
- 064 German refugees going back
- 094 US soldiers climbing onto waiting ship, allied soldiers on way home, lines of refugees crossing rivers, walking through ruined villages, gypsies on the way again
- 135 Famous Jewish quarters, schools, synagogues. Now empty or changing into Polish institutions
- 158 A Roman Catholic burial procession in Poland
- 176 Auschwitz gates. Concentration camp warehouses (stills)
- 198 The way to Kazimirsch, on the outskirts of town, a meeting between a returning Jew and a Polish farmer
- 233 Aerial shot of the city, the market place with people, Hebrew inscription carved in wood, the record of Jewish births still in the townhall. The sculptured facade of town hall
- 302 Krakow, the Jewish cemetery, monument in the center of a ruined synagogue to 30 Poles shot by the Germans for assisting the Jews
- 332 Polish town, workers at work shop, monument to Holocaust victims in Hebrew, new synagogues, inside a synagogue
- 372 Jewish school class, a lesson in Yiddish, high school class, children leaving school
- 399 Yiddish theater a scene from "Mirale Efros" starring Ida Kaminska
- 480 A matzah factory in Braslau, Poland
- 506 Hanuka candles lit in a small synagogue in a small town in lower Schlezia, evening prayer
- 528 Still of the pogrom of July 4, 1946 in Kelz Poland
- 562 Jewish immigration from Poland, crowded ships, Jews getting off ship in Haifa, Fictional sequence showing illegal immigrants arriving on shore and taken away in a hurry
- 595 Map of Europe, sequence telling the story of the arrival of the Jews in Poland and their contributions to and achievements in Polish society. The visual is mainly old drawings, documents etc.
- 768 A carriage on a country road, Jewish villages, Jewish children playing on shtetl street, the market, at home, Jews working in several trades: tailor, carpenter, weaver and family scenes
- 866 The calling for midnight prayer, prayer in the synagogue
- 881 A wedding
- 926 Showing village life (stills)
- 1048 Paintings of Jewish themes by Jewish painters
- 1077 Portraits of the famous Jewish writers in Poland
- 1097 Yiddish theater and announcements (stills)
- 1105 groups of rabbis, the farmer's cooperative founded by Jews, wood carvings showing Jewish workers, the convention of the Zionist movement, portraits of Zionist leaders. Chaim Weizmann (WZO, President) and David Ben-Gurion (Jewish Agency) (stills)
- 1148 Jewish life in the Polish cities
- 1226 Jewish life and institutions in Vilna
- 1337 Jewish life and institutions in Bialystock
- 1432 END
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Reel 2:
- 000 Jewish life and institutions in Krakow
- 076 Jewish life in Warsaw
- 244 Boys and girls and the way of life in the "Medam Institution" out in the country
- 361 Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels delivering speeches (stills)
- 367 German air bombing of Poland, German soldiers marching
- 404 Sequence from a Nazi film showing the Jews of Cracow in the streets looking happy and smiling
- 441 The statue of the "Prince of Peace" in Markov, the marching of the Jews of Markov to death by the Germans
- 448 Individual and groups of Jews on their knees with their hands up to pointed German pistols and rifles, German ridiculing and humiliating Jews, Executions of Jews, proclamation announcing the compulsory wearing of the yellow star of David (stills)
- 497 Warsaw Ghetto, the wall
- 506 Lodz Ghetto (stills)
- 529 The Jews with their belongings on way to the Ghetto
- 543 Rounding up of Jews at night by SS soldiers
- 575 The Paviak jail, prisoners, Ghetto streets, Jewish tram, crowds, in a crowded room women feed their children. The wall (still)
- 666 List of persons executed for attempting to flee, the market place, Ghetto streets (shots and stills), cultural life in the Ghetto, soup kitchens (stills)
- 729 Children caught by German soldiers while attempting to smuggle vegetables. "vegetable garden" in Ghetto (still). shots showing starvation and corpses in the street
- 769 The Judenrat meeting
- 794 Gathering of Jews by Jewish police for deportation, Jews at train station
- 867 London's Big Ben, deportations, the White House, deportations, the Kremlin, lines of Jews on way to deportation, at the train station, the Vatican, at the train station on way to deportation
- 897 Arthur Zeigelbaum (?) who committed suicide London in effort to catch world attention (stills), Jews at train stations. Korzak and pupils at train station, Ghetto (stills)
- 936 The Warsaw ghetto uprising, Germans fighting, combined with shots probably taken from feature film. Survivors of the uprising being marched and lined up against a wall (stills). The famous telegram of the German commander announcing the liquidation of the Ghetto
- 1105 Ruins of the Ghetto, the Ghetto area in the 1950's and the one synagogue left, the institute where the Ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum's diaries are kept, the original manuscript found in 1946. Portraits of the leading people of the Ghetto (stills), the Jewish cemetery, Anilevich's grave
- 1201 Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Yad Mordechai
- 1228 Ghetto memorial in Warsaw
- 1271 END
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem |