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Children playing in prewar Vienna

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.62 | RG Number: RG-60.4747 | Film ID: 2867

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    Children playing in prewar Vienna

    Overview

    Description
    Possibly a kindergarten scene. Four little girls, posing for the camera, then running about happily. An infant is being placed into its carriage, CUs. Another baby. A few mothers with carriages gathered on a sidewalk, including Doris Lichtenthal. Children play. They begin raking sand or dirt of some kind.

    01:01:08 Kids play, boys in lederhosen with hoops and sticks, girls with jump ropes. The boys try to climb the fence before giving up. Peter rides a scooter that is just a bit big for him. Peter plays with blocks (brief). A child writing, followed by a girl running behind a toy baby carriage.

    01:02:41 Children playing in what appears to be a schoolyard. A teacher is present as they run about the yard and play in a sandbox. Young boys chase after slightly older girls.

    01:03:23 Peter in a striped bathrobe plays indoors with wooden construction blocks. The picture is dark. He continues to play with an electric model train locomotive on an oval track.
    Duration
    00:04:13
    Date
    Event:  1933-1938
    Locale
    Vienna, Austria
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Peter Schur
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Helen Schur
    Subject: Max Schur
    Subject: Doris Lichtenthal
    Subject: Lucy
    Biography
    Dr. Max Schur, born in Ukraine and living in Vienna from 1914, was a psychoanalyst and Freud's personal physician. His wife, Helen (Kraus) Schur, born in Prague, was also a doctor. They married at the Seitenstettengasse synagogue in Vienna in 1930 and had two children, Peter (b.1933) and Eva (b.1935). The Schur family lived in Vienna until June 10, 1938, when they left for London with visas obtained by Marie Bonaparte, who was born in France, married to Danish and Greek royalty, and a psychoanalyst and colleague of Freud. Ernest Jones, a British psychoanalyst, was equally important in obtaining the visas, and also obtained permission for Dr. Schur to treat Freud in England.The Schurs left for New York in April 1939. After a brief stay during the spring of 1939, the family returned to London so that Dr. Schur could care for Freud, who was in the final stage of oral cancer. Years previously Freud had told Dr. Schur that he didn't want to suffer at the end of his life. On September 1939 Dr. Schur administered a dose of morphine that caused Freud to lapse into a coma and eventually die. The Schur family moved back to New York in October 1939.

    Details taken from correspondence with Eva (Schur) Milofsky in February 2014 and Peter Schur's essay "The Freud-Schur Connection" delivered to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in February 1994.
    Doris Lichtenthal, her mother Rose Spiegel Lichtenthal, and her grandmother Sophie Weiss Spiegel left Vienna for America in mid-1938 shortly after her father, Paul Lichtenthal, was imprisoned at Dachau. She was best friends with Lucy, with whom she appears in the Schur family film footage.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    01:00:01:00 to 01:04:14:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2867 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2867 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2867 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2867 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2867 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Conditions on Use
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Peter Schur donated a VHS videocassette transfer of his family's original films to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2009. The original film materials have not been located by the Schur family.
    Note
    Doris Lichtenthal, her mother Rose Spiegel Lichtenthal, and her best friend Lucy appear in this family film. 01:00:02 Lucy (with white scarf) stands beside Doris. 01:00:41 Rose with her daughter Doris and other mothers and children.
    Film Source
    Dr. Peter Schur
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5136
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:02:47
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