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- Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 – Clip from : Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxdcMjzZQcH8jOtp1j2xFwrPxyAoHMcdFr Filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer also filmed two of his children in the Westerborkfilm… Stefan (left) & Ursula Breslauer, children of Rudolf Breslauer, the filmmaker of the Westerbork film at the farm of Camp … Continue reading Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305
- Deportation | 20240226Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker oversees the deportation of Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Westerbork transit camp May 19, 1944 . Gemmeker is the producer of the Westerborkfilm — he ordered the film. Cameraman is the German Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer. Source : Frame 2608 from Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Settela•Com | ISSN … Continue reading Deportation | 20240226
- ‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland | 20231123‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’. In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and … Continue reading ‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland | 20231123
- French Refugees October 1918 in Holland | 20231031Silent film — Towards the end of World War I – in the summer 1918 , after the Allies defeated the Germans in the Second Battle of the Marne – large groups of Belgians and French refugees flee in front of the retreating enemy force to the neutral Netherlands. The Dutch army and Red Cross … Continue reading French Refugees October 1918 in Holland | 20231031
- Path to Peace Gaza Wall | 20231012Pilgrims on 50th year celebration pilgrimage at the Gaza wall visiting the bomb shelters, and the Path to Peace mosaic creation upon the border wall – that divides the Gaza Strip and Israel – adjacent to the homes of the settlement Netiv HaAsara, Friday Oct 6th, just hours before the attack Saturday morning Oct 7th … Continue reading Path to Peace Gaza Wall | 20231012
- PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here images screening in the virtual opera PUSH – based on the story of Simon Gronowski – an 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on … Continue reading PUSH Opera Epilogue 2020 | Westerborkfilm Images #2 | 20230728
- Kazerne Dossin | Westerborkfilm Images #1 | 20230727Images from the Westerborkfilm have been used countless times in documentaries and films about the Second World War. Here Westerborkfilm images – clips – screening semi-permanent ten years ago (Feb. 2013) in a museum introduction film (on holocaust, genocides, discrimination, diversity, rights) on one of the huge columns in the entrance hall of the Kazerne … Continue reading Kazerne Dossin | Westerborkfilm Images #1 | 20230727
- Sally’s Invasion StarJune 25, 2023 — Contact between the families of Sally and Nelly is re-established ! Sally Frankenthal – Kalwary was living in Antwerp in the 90s when she requested Yad Vashem a Righteous medal posthumous for “Nelly Quintard” .. the lady that had been hiding Sally Frankenthal and her parents during World War II. However, … Continue reading Sally’s Invasion Star
- Survival | 20230528Survival | 20230528 | Settela•Com | Together man and woman are equally essential by nature to man…humans, survival. Institutional discrimination against women is unnatural, intended to make discrimination the norm for the establishment. Standing up for equal rights for women, obviously, is the pre-eminently low-threshold means anywhere in the world to restore balance. Updates : … Continue reading Survival | 20230528
- Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka QuintardBy Michel van der Burg – Published May 26, 2023 , updated Sep 7, 2023 – Nelly’s family name is ‘Quintart’ , and misspelt ‘Quintard’ on the Righteous MedaI (Ref 1) minted posthumous for Nelly by Yad Vashem in 1999 to honor Nelly for hiding and rescuing the Jewish Frankenthal family in her home in … Continue reading Story of Righteous Nelly • Quintart aka Quintard
- Missing Image Westerbork Film 2021 | 20230519Missing Image Westerbork Film 2021 The new 2021 Westerbork Film is missing part of the image in every frame … The new high quality restored Westerbork film, presented first May 2021 by the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, has numerous advantages over the previous … Continue reading Missing Image Westerbork Film 2021 | 20230519
- Jim Kaliski Transport XX | 20230426Eight drawings by Jim (Haïm) Kaliski, 1995-1999, indian ink on paper. Filmed April 19, 2023 in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in Brussels, at the exhibition ‘236 – Land(es)capes from the 20th convoy’. 1) Pogrom Antwerp, 14 April 1941 2) The Summons for Mechelen “The Trap” 3) Mechelen Waiting Room of Death , 1942-1944 4) … Continue reading Jim Kaliski Transport XX | 20230426
- The Genocide of the Sinti and Roma. Research, Recognition and RemembranceThe Genocide of the Sinti and Roma. Research, Recognition and Remembrance | Karola Fings and Bas Kortholt | The Memory of Kamp Westerbork exhibition project Online Lecture Feb 8, 2023 — The moving image of a young girl with a white headscarf, minutes before being deported to an unknown destination. The short clip became iconographic … Continue reading The Genocide of the Sinti and Roma. Research, Recognition and Remembrance
- SS Führer Rauter Trial Start 1948The former Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer in the Netherlands, H.A. Rauter, must stand trial in The Hague for his crimes, which he committed in World War II. Hanns A. Rauter, an Austrian, was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and was tasked with setting up the camps in Westerbork and other dutch cities, and … Continue reading SS Führer Rauter Trial Start 1948
- 236 Land(es)capes 20th convoyVideo report of the preview 19 Jan 2023 presented by photographer Jo Struyven of photo exhibition ‘236 — Land(es)capes from the 20th Convoy’.Photo exhibition of works by Jo Struyven and Luc Tuymans in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium | January 20 – August 14, 2023.License info : 236 Land(es)capes 20th convoy | 20230126 … Continue reading 236 Land(es)capes 20th convoy
- Contact Form Temporary Issue SolvedHello , if you did sent a message over the last week using the contact form at this site , it did not arrive (with no warning). Reason : an email address was disabled about a week ago – not knowing that address was also being used for these contact forms here. The contact form … Continue reading Contact Form Temporary Issue Solved
- Escape Landscapes from the 20th Convoy – 236 Photo Exhibition236 — Land(es)capes from the 20th Convoy Jo Struyven / Luc Tuymans From 20 January 2023, the Jewish Museum of Belgium, in partnership with the Auschwitz Foundation, presents the exhibition entitled ‘ 236, Land(es)capes from the 20th Convoy ‘. It is set up in the museum’s project space and offers an artistic look at an … Continue reading Escape Landscapes from the 20th Convoy – 236 Photo Exhibition
- Samudaripen – Genocide of the Gypsies – Claire AuziasSamudaripen – Genocide of the Gypsies – Claire Auzias The French author, historian and libertarian, Claire Auzias researches social movements, women’s history and Roma’s history (1). She has written several works on the Roma’s history in the last 20 years. Samudaripen, the Genocide of the Gypsies, first appeared in 1999/2000 (2,3), and is now followed … Continue reading Samudaripen – Genocide of the Gypsies – Claire Auzias
- Amsterdam Ghetto 1941(Silent Film) The Amsterdam Jewish Quarter — Joodsche Wijk (dutch) | Juden Viertel (german) — was cordoned off by the Nazis and declared a Jewish ghetto, February 1941, during World War II. Source : Producer unknown | Sound & Vision (Open Images) License : Amsterdam Ghetto 1941 | 20221209 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | … Continue reading Amsterdam Ghetto 1941
- ISSN 2949-9313 Registration Settela•ComSettela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 Registration – as ongoing integrating resource published by Miracles.Media (Netherlands) confirmed by the ISSN Centre of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek – the Netherlands National Library, Friday, 25th Nov 2022. Settela•Com aims to online document and facilitate research of the Westerbork images, the use of the film in other works, the context of … Continue reading ISSN 2949-9313 Registration Settela•Com
- Samudaripen Book CoverFor Settela•Com , Michel worked with Elisabeth Obadia at the small publishing house L’Esprit Frappeur in Paris and the Tokyo based French visual artist Benoit Dupuis (eden-olympia.net), by preparing a high quality camera-original still image of Settela (Ref 1) from the Westerbork film (Ref 2, 3) for the cover of the 3rd edition of the … Continue reading Samudaripen Book Cover
- Settela Film | 20220630New 2022 slow motion edition based on the newly found camera-original footage (the original negative film used in Breslauer’s camera May 19, 1944) as published last year in Deportation Westerbork Film | 20210719 (REF 1). Before in 2017 a similar first slow-motion film was published (Settela | 20170721) (REF 2) that was using the ‘duplicate’ … Continue reading Settela Film | 20220630
- Settela | 20220629The 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Anna Maria ‘Settela’ Steinbach peeks outside , at the last moment just before the sliding door is closed , standing inside a freight wagon with 74 people on May 19 , 1944 in the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland , when this deportation train leaves for Auschwitz-Birkenau – where Settela is … Continue reading Settela | 20220629
- Westerbork Film Shots OrderThe original deportation footage of the annotated 2021 Westerbork film (REF 1) provides insight into Breslauer’s way of filming. Focussing on film roll 2 of the deportation reel it is evident that Breslauer — right after filming the toddlers Marc and Stella Degen (REF 11) in 3rd class carriage I at the front of the … Continue reading Westerbork Film Shots Order
- Westerbork Film CorrespondenceSILENT FILM Westerbork Camp Spring 1944 a film is being made in the Westerbork camp, ordered and produced by camp commander SS-Obersturmführer Albert Gemmeker. Cameraman is the German Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer – the camp photographer. In addition film scripts were made, but the film was never really finished or edited. Westerbork Film Dossier In … Continue reading Westerbork Film Correspondence
- Westerbork Film ScriptsSILENT FILM Westerbork Film Plan Spring 1944 a film is being made in the Westerbork camp, ordered and produced by camp commander SS-Obersturmführer Albert Gemmeker. A Film Plan propasal – 1.5 page – is written by his personal assistant the German prisoner Dienstleiter Heinz Todtmann – a journalist before WW2. Cameraman is the German Jewish … Continue reading Westerbork Film Scripts
- Westerborkfilm IntroductionWesterborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | Introduction by Michel van der Burg on the Westerborkfilm first showing May 7, 2022 in cinema METRO Kinokulturhaus , Vienna , Austria at the DOCUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION | DOKUMENTE DER VERNICHTUNG Symposium 6-7 May, 2022 curated by Florian Widegger. Presented … Continue reading Westerborkfilm Introduction
- Mobilization Holland 1939Mobilization Holland 1939 | Dutch cinema news August 1939. Just before Hitler invades Poland (Sep 1, 1939), the Dutch government can no longer ignore the danger of war, and pre-mobilization August 24, 1939 of Dutch military is followed by mobilization August 28. Source : Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Aug 1939) | Netherlands Institute for Sound and … Continue reading Mobilization Holland 1939
- Holland On Standby 1938Holland On Standby 1938 | Dutch cinema news Sep. 1938 on the imminent international war situation with precautions by the Dutch army and people hoarding food in Holland. Source : Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Image publ. 19 Sep 1938 ; Sound publ. 28 Aug 1939) | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision ~ Film : Holland … Continue reading Holland On Standby 1938
- Jewish Child Refugees Holland News 1938Jewish Child Refugees Holland News 1938 | 20220304 | Shelter of Jewish children in the Netherlands, fleeing fascism after the 1938 November pogrom Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) in Nazi Germany. NL (dutch) Opvang Joodse kinderen in Nederland, op de vlucht voor fascisme na de 1938 November pogrom Kristallnacht in Duitsland. CREDITS Image source : … Continue reading Jewish Child Refugees Holland News 1938
- Netherlands’ Fight World War IINetherlands’ Fight World War II | 20220303 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | Three years of the Netherlands’ fight against the axis 1940-1943 Film about the Dutch urge for freedom in the Second World War, which is said to be rooted in Dutch history. This is followed by images of the pre-war Netherlands with typical … Continue reading Netherlands’ Fight World War II
- Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | Complete Remastered EditionWesterbork Film 🎦 2021 | The complete remastered edition of the Westerbork Film , here annotated online in CC – by Michel van der Burg as an ongoing integrating resource. The original display edition of the restored Westerbork film was edited only for black bar removal conform 4:3 format and insertion of a title card … Continue reading Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | Complete Remastered Edition
- Watch Free Online – The Robert Clary Story“From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story” – A film by Karen and Richard Bloom and Michel van der Burg . March 1, 2022 – Celebrating Robert Clary’s 96th birthday today announcing this special gift : Watch online free now our full feature documentary “From Buchenwald to Hollywood, The Robert Clary Story” – A … Continue reading Watch Free Online – The Robert Clary Story
- Cinema Holland News 1938Cinema Holland News 1938 | 20220227 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | Mix of Dutch cinema news in 1938 by Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (source OpenImages) on the imminent international war situation with precautions by the Dutch army in Holland ~ the sheltering in Holland of Jewish children fleeing fascism in … Continue reading Cinema Holland News 1938
- Scenes Westerbork FilmScenes Westerbork Film – Demo Captions CC English EN | Nederlands NL | Français FR EN — Demo video (silent) showing use of the new captions (CC – closed captions) now available at the start of all scenes in the Westerbork Film on YouTube. Link to Westerbork Film also in the video. NL – Demo … Continue reading Scenes Westerbork Film
- Vergeten Verdriet | Roma & Sinti Transport 1944Vergeten Verdriet | Film : Judith Laemont & Gillian Morreel Op 15 januari 1944 vertrekt Transport Z met 353 Roma en Sinti vanuit de Mechelse Kazerne Dossin in België naar Auschwitz. Later op 19 mei 1944 volgt vanuit kamp Westerbork in Nederland een transport met 245 Roma en Sinti naar Auschwitz. Het merendeel van hen … Continue reading Vergeten Verdriet | Roma & Sinti Transport 1944
- Jordaan Amsterdam 1931Jordaan Amsterdam 1931 * | 20210728 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 Cinema news reel screened first in Holland in 1931 on the occasion of the upcoming renovation of the poor Jordaan district. Daily life in the Jordaan district showing the Egelantiersstraat street and Prinsengracht canal with eg. a street sweeper … Continue reading Jordaan Amsterdam 1931
- Deportation Westerbork FilmDeportation Westerbork Film – Edition 2021 SILENT FILM Deportation 19 May 1944 from the dutch Westerbork transit camp, filmed by the German Jewish refugee and camp prisoner Rudolf Breslauer. Shortly thereafter 20 km north in the dutch town Assen, train cars are added from the Belgian Transport XXV (25) from transit camp Kazerne Dossin (Dossin … Continue reading Deportation Westerbork Film
- Travellers Holland 1923Travellers Holland 1923 Caravan dwellers in 1923 at the Binckhorsthoek site in The Hague, Holland. Note the ‘license plate’ numbers G-932 from ’s-Gravenhage (The Hague) and H-491 from Haarlem town. Information from the dutch book : Sinti en Roma in Den Haag (2021) Peter Jorna | Haags Gemeentearchief | haagsgemeentearchief•nl Source video : Polygoon-Profilti (Producer … Continue reading Travellers Holland 1923
- Gestapo Methods | Evrard VoorpijlsEvrard Voorpijls – Belgian political prisoner , resistance fighter – told a grim story on Gestapo torture methods, during the Last Witnesses – “De Laatste Getuigen” – book (ISBN 9789054877370) presentation by Marc Van Roosbroeck (chairman of vzw “De werkgroep 10 december 2008”) on 20 May 2011 in Tongeren , Belgium. Evrard Voorpijls (born 6 … Continue reading Gestapo Methods | Evrard Voorpijls
- Willy & Settela | Born NomadPoster image above : Willy – Settela’s older brother – photographed by Jan de Jong, when playing the violin at the age of around 7 years old. Willy & Settela | Born Nomad | 20210519 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (silent film) In 1935 the nomadic Sinti families Steinbach were photographed by Dutch photographer Jan … Continue reading Willy & Settela | Born Nomad
- Westerbork Film Football Edit | Edition 2021Westerbork Film Football Edit | Edition 2021 | 20210517 SILENT FILM The UNESCO – Memory of the World – ‘ Westerbork films’ dossier (REF 1) consists of both the actual film footage, as well as a dossier with the 1944 film plan, film script, title cards (intertitles), and a file with correspondence between the camp … Continue reading Westerbork Film Football Edit | Edition 2021
- Westerbork Film IntertitlesWesterbork Film Intertitles | 20210515 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•com SILENT FILM Westerbork Films Dossier The UNESCO – Memory of the World – ‘ Westerbork films’ dossier (REF 1) consists of both the actual film footage, as well as a dossier with the 1944 film plan, film script, title cards (intertitles), and a … Continue reading Westerbork Film Intertitles
- 1945 – Terugkeer Van Den Vliegenden Hollander | Return Of The Flying Dutchman(English below) 1945 – Terugkeer Van Den Vliegenden Hollander Brits-Nederlandse propagandafilm over de Nederlandse vliegeniers, ‘vliegende Hollanders’, tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en bij hun thuiskomst na de overwinning op de Duitsers. De stijl van de film is heroïsch en bestaat uit fragmenten van archief-, journaal- en speelfilms. Met Philip Bloemendaalachtige voice-over. De film begint op … Continue reading 1945 – Terugkeer Van Den Vliegenden Hollander | Return Of The Flying Dutchman
- ANONIEM | Meisje met hoofddoekje …ANONIEM | Meisje met hoofddoekje … (film zonder geluid) Wie is zij ? Dit bange meisje met donkere ogen en haar witte hoofddoekje – anoniem icoon van de holocaust … een paar seconden in de unieke Westerbork Film. Ruwe beelden gemaakt door kampgevangene Rudolf Breslauer tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Westerbork, Nederland. Begin jaren negentig – … Continue reading ANONIEM | Meisje met hoofddoekje …
- ANONYM | Girl with the headscarf …ANONYM | Girl with the headscarf … (silent film) Who is she ? This frightened, dark-eyed girl with a white headscarf – anonymous icon of the holocaust … a few seconds in the unique Westerbork Film. Raw footage shot by Camp Westerbork inmate Rudolf Breslauer during World War II in Holland. Early 1990s – 50 … Continue reading ANONYM | Girl with the headscarf …
- Jewish Kid MonumentJewish Kid Monument ~ Walking today along the Maas River in Rotterdam , I bumped into this Jewish Children’s Monument, with the names I just learned of 686 Rotterdam’s Jewish children that were deported from here via the dutch transit camp Westerbork to the Nazi death camps Sobibór and Auschwitz-Birkenau of the Third Reich. In … Continue reading Jewish Kid Monument
- Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945 (silent film) ~ My mother did not tell me much and no details on her experiences in World War 2, except for the Hongerwinter (“Hunger winter”) – the Dutch famine of 1944–45 – that she had to eat tulip bulbs. The famine was caused by a German blockade plus … Continue reading Tulip Bulbs War Food Holland 1944-1945
- Deportation TrainDeportation TrainDeportation train departure 19 May 1944 at the dutch Westerbork transit camp filmed by Rudolf Breslauer. Shortly thereafter 20 km north in the dutch town Assen, train cars are added from the belgian Transport XXV (25) from transit camp Kazerne Dossin (Dossin barracks) in Mechelen, and the combined transport with Jews, Sinti and Roma, … Continue reading Deportation Train
- Eating Tulip Bulbs ~ Hunger Winter Holland 1944-1945Eating Tulip Bulbs ~ Hunger Winter Holland 1944-1945 . (silent film) My mother did not tell me much and no details on her experiences in World War 2, except for the Hongerwinter (“Hunger winter”) – the Dutch famine of 1944–45 – that she had to eat tulip bulbs. As children in the 1950s our mother … Continue reading Eating Tulip Bulbs ~ Hunger Winter Holland 1944-1945
- Ashes PondAshes Pond An unforgettable moment for me that ‘touching the ash pond’ I filmed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, were I was filming Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel, May 2012, for the upcoming documentary film Miracles. Into this pond were dumped the ashes of the people, who were murdered (gassed) and burned at the nearby crematorium. … Continue reading Ashes Pond
- WESTERBORK FILMS COLLECTION – UNESCO ALBUMWESTERBORK FILMS COLLECTION – UNESCO ALBUM Or watch the album as YouTube playlist via this link When the Westerbork camp was liberated in 1945 – 75 years ago – the Westerbork Film reels began a new life. The Westerbork Films Collection – silent film – is unique…the only authentic documentary footage filmed in a Nazi … Continue reading WESTERBORK FILMS COLLECTION – UNESCO ALBUM
- Flammable Films BunkerFlammable Films Bunker Former german bunker (Atlantic Wall) in the dunes along the North Sea near Scheveningen , The Hague, with special safes to store the flammable nitrate films of dutch history from the national dutch archive – historic films for safety reasons not allowed within built-up areas. Here the Westerbork film footage also was … Continue reading Flammable Films Bunker
- Tracing Lost Westerbork Film…1960s RIOD-NTS clipTracing Lost Westerbork Film…1960s RIOD-NTS clip After the war , in 1946, the National Institute for War Documentation in Holland (Ref 1), known as the ‘RIOD’ (Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie) collected the footage filmed by the Jewish camp prisoner Rudolf Werner Breslauer spring 1944 in the Westerbork transit camp. Not all of this RIOD raw film … Continue reading Tracing Lost Westerbork Film…1960s RIOD-NTS clip
- RIOD 1948 ~ National Institute for War Documentation in HollandRIOD 1948 ~ National Institute for War Documentation in Holland ~ In the first years after the war, the National Institute for War Documentation in Holland , known as the ‘RIOD’ – Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie – started collecting original documents about the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. In addition … Continue reading RIOD 1948 ~ National Institute for War Documentation in Holland
- Tracing Lost Westerbork Film Clips…Polygoon Reel 48298Tracing Lost Westerbork Film Clips…Polygoon Reel 48298 After the war , in 1946, the National Institute for War Documentation in Holland , known as the ‘RIOD’ (Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie) collected the footage filmed by the Jewish camp prisoner Rudolf Werner Breslauer spring 1944 in the Westerbork transit camp. The RIOD glued fragments together probably, and … Continue reading Tracing Lost Westerbork Film Clips…Polygoon Reel 48298
- Westerbork Film Fragments…1948 Polygoon NewsAs discussed with the presentation of the full unedited Westerbork Film recently (Ref. 1), the collection of the film footage was started in 1946 by the ‘RIOD’ Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (National Institute for War Documentation). According to the inventory of the RIOD from 1958 – when the film reels were handed over to the Nederlands … Continue reading Westerbork Film Fragments…1948 Polygoon News
- Mare Manuschenge ~ Music Roma Memorial BerlinMare Manuschenge ~ Music Roma Memorial Berlin Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism – located between the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany – filmed in 2013. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the estimated 500,000 European Roma and Sinti that were murdered during the Holocaust – … Continue reading Mare Manuschenge ~ Music Roma Memorial Berlin
- Porajmos Memorial Sinti Roma EuropePorajmos Memorial Sinti Roma Europe Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, filmed in 2013 in the Tiergarten (close to other Holocaust memorials) in Berlin – between the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, in Germany. The monument is dedicated to the memory of the estimated 500,000 European Roma and Sinti that were … Continue reading Porajmos Memorial Sinti Roma Europe
- Unknown Westerbork Film Reel…F1014As discussed with the presentation of the full unedited Westerbork Film recently (Ref. 1), the collection of the film footage was started in 1946 by the ‘RIOD’ Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (National Institute for War Documentation). According to the inventory of the RIOD from 1958 – when the film reels were handed over to the Nederlands … Continue reading Unknown Westerbork Film Reel…F1014
- Forgotten Westerbork Film Reel…F1015Recently, I posted the ‘Westerbork Film – full version (RVD)’, with the details of what has been known as the Westerbork Film (Ref. 1). When, in 1986, the raw film footage of the Westerbork Film moved from the archives of the Filmmuseum in Holland to the archive of the Rijksvoorlichtingsdienst (RVD – ie the Dutch … Continue reading Forgotten Westerbork Film Reel…F1015
- Liberation Holland – The Underground Camera of Menno HuizingaMenno Huizinga (1907–1947) took photographs illegally during the occupation , mainly in his hometown The Hague in Holland.He was a member of the group of Dutch photographers ‘De Ondergedoken Camera’ (1943-1945) – The Underground Camera – doing resistance work during the Second World War.‘Liberation Holland – The Underground Camera of Menno Huizinga’ is a silent … Continue reading Liberation Holland – The Underground Camera of Menno Huizinga
- Westerbork Film | Full version RVD 1986FR >> français | french >> NL >> nederlands | dutch >> The Westerbork Film – a silent film – is unique…the only authentic documentary footage filmed in a Nazi camp – a waiting room for death in the Netherlands for more than 100,000 Jews, and Roma, Sinti, and resistance workers. A documentary filmed 75 … Continue reading Westerbork Film | Full version RVD 1986
- Westerbork Film in ‘Proces Rauter’ 1948NL >> nederlands | dutch >> First time use of Westerbork film in 1948 in Dutch cinema news (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) of the trial in The Hague of Hanns A. Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up the camps in Westerbork and other … Continue reading Westerbork Film in ‘Proces Rauter’ 1948
- Settela | Settela•ComNL >> nederlands | dutch >> Settela peeks outside the death train to Auschwitz.Last glance at the outside world for the 9-year-old Dutch Sinti girl Settela Steinbach just before these cattle car doors close , and this death train heads for Auschwitz on May 19 , 1944.Anna Maria ‘Settela’ Steinbach peeks outside , at the … Continue reading Settela | Settela•Com
- SettelaThe 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Anna Maria ‘Settela’ Steinbach peeks outside , at the last moment just before the sliding door is closed , standing inside a freight wagon with 74 people on May 19 , 1944 in the Westerbork concentration camp in Holland , when this deportation train leaves for Auschwitz-Birkenau – where Settela is … Continue reading Settela
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