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Opening of Chopin Museum

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.715.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4336 | Film ID: 2746

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    Opening of Chopin Museum
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    Description
    Newsreel showing Ludmilla Berkwic, whose father's family was Jewish, playing the piano at the opening of the Chopin Museum in Wawel Castle. Hans Frank and other Nazi officials are in attendance. Berkwic is shown playing Chopin's piano. The piano music continues over interior shots of the museum and its artifacts.

    Berkwic's father was Jewish but she was living as a non-Jew when Hans Frank asked her to perform at the opening of the Chopin Museum in Krakow. Soon after her performance she was denounced as a Jew. She and her mother obtained false papers and fled to her fiancee's home in Germany. Ludmila worked as a forced laborer at a munitions factory until 1945 [this information is from Ludmilla Berkwic's website: http://www.ludmillaberkwic.org/].
    Duration
    00:01:35
    Date
    Event:  10/27/1943
    Locale
    Krakow, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Genre/Form
    Newsreels.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    00:32:33:00 to 00:34:08:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
      Master 2746 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2746 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Filmoteka Narodowa
    Conditions on Use
    Contact FINA customer service team at dokument@fina.gov.pl for permission to reproduce and use this film.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studio, Film Archive) in Warsaw, Poland in May 2004.
    Film Source
    Filmoteka Narodowa
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4636
    Source Archive Number: GG 5
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:58:42
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