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Holiday celebration; street scenes; shops

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.249.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0835 | Film ID: 412.2

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    Holiday celebration; street scenes; shops

    Overview

    Description
    Reel 3. Intertitle: "Holiday Celebration". Street scene with townspeople in costume to celebrate the Easter holiday. People walk towards camera in street, dressed nicely. Women with packages pass by. Shops in BG. Men and women in fancy clothing. Umbrellas. LV, men and women walking. Religious procession past shops on square, man in front holds metal post. People walking towards camera. LV, cows, people roaming in streets, children playing. Man leads herd of cows. City streets, square. Family shops/businesses. Pan, signs of shops seen. Huts/houses. People walking/milling about.
    Duration
    00:02:32
    Date
    Event:  1932
    Locale
    Humenne, Slovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bernard and Emery Klein
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Louis Sommer
    Biography
    Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:18:55:00 to 01:21:27:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 412.2 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 412.2 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 412.2 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 412.2 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - reversal original
      Master 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 412 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • User
    • User 412 Video: DVD
      User 412 Video: DVD
      User 412 Video: DVD
      User 412 Video: DVD

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Emery Klein, Bernard Klein
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum does not own the copyright for this material and does not have authority to authorize third party use. Researchers must contact the Klein family (Ron Klein) for permission to reproduce or use this film footage in a production.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The five 16mm films were recorded by Louis and Harry Sommer when they visited their family Houmena (Humenne), Slovakia from Omaha, Nebraska in March 1932. Bernard and Emery Klein rescued the decaying films from their cousin, Beatrice Sommer, in the 1950s. The Kleins signed a release for the footage, ca. 1987, to The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Sidney Bolkosky at the University of Michigan-Dearborn sent a viewing copy to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1991. The Kleins donated the original 16mm films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
    Note
    For more information, review the Oral History with Bernard and Emery Klein from May 23, 1984 at http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/klein/ or RG-50.155*0228.

    Refer also to the Washington Post article on the first transport to Auschwitz with teenage girls from Humenne, including Edith Friedman Grosman: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/27/first-transport-jews-auschwitz-was-997-teenage-girls-few-survived/

    The five original film reels are labeled: (1) Around Before LS Europe Trip (Film ID 2988); (2) My Trip to Europe - March 29, 1932 (Film ID 412.1); (3) My Trip to Europe Continued (Film ID 412.2); (4) My Trip to Europe Continued (Film ID 413); (5) Louis Sommer's Family Abroad (Film ID 2989).
    Film Source
    Bernard Klein
    Emery Klein
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2789
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:05:54
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