English: Warsaw Ghetto in color / Film, Accession Number: 2002.542.1, RG Number: RG-60.3431. Film ID: 2615 / Warsaw ghetto, probably in May 1942, filmed privately by German camerman, Willy Wist. General views of the gates opening for a vehicle. Bare-shirted men load bodies in a pit. CU, Jewish man. Market scenes, food and materials for sale, Jews with armbands. Street scenes, crowded sidewalks, trams, rickshaws. Massive funeral procession, various shots, some closeup. Unintentional dark shots. / German officer checks papers. Jewish man in rags. Meat shop. 01:05:10 German uniformed man in peaked cap is visible on right of frame, emerging from shop doorway and gesturing with hand at small boy looking at meat. 01:05:24 Child outside a narrow meat shop, with cuts of meat hanging below sign "MIESA". Pan down from sign to two boys, one very ragged, looking at meat hanging a few inches away, as nicely dressed woman in light coat and hat enters the shop from right side. 01:05:48 Pan up ... (more) / Film Title Im Warschauer Ghetto [In the Warsaw Ghetto] / Duration 00:09:48 / Date Event: May 1942? / Locale Warsaw, Poland / Language Silent / Credit Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv / Contributor Producer: Propaganda Kompanie / Camera Operator: Willy Wist / B&W / Color Color / Image Quality Good / Time Code 01:00:00:00 to 01:09:48:00 / Film Format Master 2615 Film: positive - 16 mm – color / Master 2615 Video: Digital Betacam - color - NTSC - small / Preservation 2615 Film: negative - 16 mm - polyester - color - internegative - A-wind - Kodak – 3272 / Preservation 2615 Video: Betacam SP - color - NTSC - small / Special Collection Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive / Administrative History / Legal Status Permanent Collection / Film Provenance The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in April 2002. / Note - Regarding the funeral procession, the German Wochenbericht of 19 May 1942 mentions the death of two prominent cultural figures in the Warsaw Ghetto. Menachem Kipnis, writer and singer; and Herman Czerwinski, member of the Judenrat and arts correspondent for Gazeta Zydowska. The report indicates that everyone from the cultural world of the Warsaw Ghetto attended the funeral for Kipnis. / Copied From 16mm color / Film Source Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv / File Number Legacy Database File: 3809 Source Archive Number: 20814 / Rights and Restrictions / Conditions on Access You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media. / Copyright Public Domain / Conditions on Use To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material. / Record last modified: 2021-09-29 17:19:19 / https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003124