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Postwar wedding of Jewish survivors; ritual circumcision of their newborn

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.524 | RG Number: RG-60.1523 | Film ID: 4104

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    Postwar wedding of Jewish survivors; ritual circumcision of their newborn

    Overview

    Description
    Title, "Onze Trouw-Film" [Our Wedding Film]. City streets. At the Roxy Theater. Maurits Schaap and Rebecca (Bep) Bedak, soon to be married, meet and start toward City Hall in August 1945. Title, "Aankomst op het staduis" City Hall (The Hague). Street signs and the general location. There is no filming inside City Hall itself for the signing of the marriage license. The couple exits the building holding the marriage contract. In Rotterdam, Bep wears diamond jewelry just below her neck. The family prepares for the wedding ceremony in a synagogue in Rotterdam. Bep dresses in a gown and veil. 03:43:03 Title card: "Naar de kerk". Guests arrive at the synagogue with Star of Davids above the doors. Bep and Maurits and several attendees arrive. Family and children gather for photos at a residence after the ceremony.

    03:46:38 INTs of the Roxy movie theater in The Hague owned by Bep's parents (killed in Auschwitz). Bep and Maurits lived here for a few months after getting married in 1945. This is the only theater the family got back after the war. Daily life (possibly staged). An office or study has been decorated - books are piled high on one table, flowers in vases add to the calm atmosphere. A man sits at a desk, smoking and filing paperwork. The woman folds and reads a newspaper after showing food that has been prepared and set out on a low table. She offers a small tour of the study.
    03:49:47 EXT in front of the residence of "M.S. SCHAAP", number 74 on a city street with trams and pedestrians. Maurits and Bep take their dog for a walk through town. Bep is pregnant. She rests in bed and eats soup, perhaps having just given birth. Baby Eljakiem Schaap (born in 1946) is in a crib above which hangs a Star of David. 03:54:10 The infant boy is circumcised in a ceremony. The entire process is shown in detail, including the tools and procedures for a circumcision as well as the surgery itself. 03:55:25 EXT of building, "EMMAKLINIEK". Family exits carrying baby Eljakiem in a blanket. They arrive at home by car. CUs of mother Bep.
    Duration
    00:17:42
    Date
    Event:  August 1945/1946
    Locale
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Hague, Netherlands
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eli Schaap
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Maurits Schaap
    Biography
    Maurits Schaap was in hiding in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    03:39:50:00 to 03:57:32:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 4104 Digital: ProRes 422 - color - HD
      Master 4104 Digital: ProRes 422 - color - HD
      Master 4104 Digital: ProRes 422 - color - HD
      Master 4104 Digital: ProRes 422 - color - HD

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Eli Schaap
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum does not own the copyright for this material and does not have authority to authorize third party use. For permission, please contact the rights holder, Mr. Eli Schaap.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Eli Schaap donated digital copies of a selection of his father's 8mm films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. He had all of his father's films transferred to video at Brodsky & Treadway in 1998 and 1999, and donated video copies to the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem in 2000.
    Note
    Videotape label: "Father's movies: Family events, Rolls 3A,3B,3C,6(a)"
    Copied From
    8mm b/w Kodak
    Film Source
    Eli Schaap
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5749
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:24
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