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Children in Medem Sanatorium

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2524 | Film ID: 2303

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    Children in Medem Sanatorium
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    Description
    Quote from opening Yiddish credits of film: "This is a documentary film depicting the life of the children in the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw. The Sanatorium was founded and directed by the Central Organization of the Yiddish-Secular Schools and the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland. It bore the name of the Bundist leader Vladimir Medem. The Sanatorium was in existence from 1926 until the summer of 1942. The film was made in 1938. The Medem Sanatorium was an institution for therapy and education. It was renowned throughout Europe for its modern pedagogic methods and served as a model for other similar institutions. Under the leadership of Shlama F. Gilinsky and the supervision of a staff of physicians and teachers, children who came there from poverty-stricken Jewish workers' homes received a new lease on life, got courage, and hope. Even during the Second World War under the German -Nazi occupation, the Medem Sanatorium remained a shelter and home for needy children. On August 22, 1942, detachments of German SS guards drove the children into death wagons which led to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Their teachers, doctors, nurses and the other staff members accompanied them on their last journey to a common death. Some of the children shown in the film a few years later became active in the underground resistance of the Bund against the Nazis and fought heroically in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt of April-May 1943. Many of them shared the fate of millions of other Jews and died a martyr's death in the gas chambers. In memory of the children, of their teachers, doctors, nurses and other helpers; in memory of Shlama F. Gilinsky a founder and director of the Medem Sanatorium (died in New York, September 4, 1961), a new print of this film was made in New York in 1965, by his family and the General Jewish Labor Bund."

    Many shots of children at play, at school, eating, etc.
    Duration
    01:00:37
    Date
    Production:  1938
    Locale
    Miedzeszyn, Poland
    Warsaw, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
    Contributor
    Director: Aleksander Ford
    Producer: Medem Sanatorium
    Camera Operator: S. Lipinski

    Physical Details

    Language
    English Yiddish
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    06:01:25:00 to 07:02:02:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2303 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2303 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2303 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2303 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    National Center for Jewish Film
    Conditions on Use
    Contact NCJF at pontius@brandeis.edu for permission to reproduce and use this film.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
    Note
    Narration in English.
    Credits in Polish, Yiddish, and English.
    Film Source
    National Center for Jewish Film
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2625
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:59:43
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