Lodz Film

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Contents

• Lodz Ghetto
• Photographer
• The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz
• Loving the Dead
• Mamele
• House of the World
• Ziemia Obiecana (The Promised Land)
• Image Before My Eyes

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Adelson, Alan and Kathryn Taverna. Lodz Ghetto. New York: Jewish Heritage Project, Inc., 1989.
LC Call No.: CGC 0636-0641 (ref print)
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Produced by Alan Adelson and directed by Kathryn Taverna; script compiled and edited by Alan Adelson. Jewish Heritage Project, Inc., 150 Franklin St., #1W, New York, NY 10003, USA; 212-925-9067.
Description of motion picture: 12 reels of 12 on 6 (ca. 9270 ft.) : sd., black & white and color; 35 mm. ref print.
Notes: Preexisting material: various textual materials; archival film footage; still photos. NM: compilation, editing, narration, score, and some new footage. Executive producer, Stephen Samuels; original score by Wendy Blackstone; still photo cinematography, Gary Becker and Kathryn Taverna; cinematography, Jozef Piwkowski, Eugene Squires; film edited by Kathryn Taverna; ghetto photographers, Mendel Grossman, Henryk Ross; original color pictures of the ghetto provided by Erhard Löcker, Löcker Verlag, Vienna; contemporary photos of ghetto district by Eva Rubinstein; music editor, Kathryn Taverna; chief historical consultant, Lucjan Dobroszycki. Voices: Jerzy Kosinski, Nicholas Kepros, Barbara Rosenblat, David Warrilow, Gregory Gordon, Alan Adelson, Theodore Bikel. Release date from New York times film reviews,    3/22/89. Chronicles the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Lodz from German occupation beginning on September 8, 1939 to liberation by the Russians on January 17, 1945. Focuses on the forcible move of Jews into the ghetto, the harsh conditions within, deportation to Auschwitz, and the survival of the few Jews who remained behind and hid in the ghetto. Depicts the ghetto's Nazi-appointed Jewish leader, Mordecai Hayim Rumkowski. Utilizes historical film footage and still photographs, some contemporary footage, and narration from historical diaries and monographs. Much of the historical material was made at great risk and left deliberately by the doomed community members. From diaries and monographs written in the Lodz ghetto by Oskar Rosenfeld, Oskar Singer, David Sierakowiak, Jozef Klementynowski, Irene Liebman and others and from The Chronicle of the Lodz ghetto, edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki.

Produced and directed by Dariusz Jablonski; written by Andrej Bodek, Dariusz Jablonski and Arnold Mostowicz; in Polish, German and Yiddish, with English subtitles; director of photography, Tomasz Michalowski; edited by Milenia Fiedler; music by Michal Lomc. Running time, 80 minutes. Not rated. With Arnold Mostowicz. This documentary is based on 400 Agfa color slides of the Lodz ghetto by Austrian born Nazi Walter Genewein, chief accountant and top Nazi administrator of the ghetto. After Genewein's death, the slides were sold to a used bookstore, where they were recovered in 1987. They are now part of the collection of the Jewish Museum in Frankfort, Germany. The film, which won the Prix Europa 1998, uses Genewein's notes to mark the disparity between what Genewein observed and what the pictures reveal.
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POJ Filmproduction AB and Swedish Television; producer, director, Peter Cohen; writer, Bo Kuritzen.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (55 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 1/2 in.
Notes:  Intended audience: Ages 12 through adult. Shows the efforts of German-appointed leader Chaim Rumkowski to save the Jewish community during the Nazi occupation of Lodz, Poland, in World War II. Documents Rumkowski's establishment of an entire society, including schools, industries, and a postal system. Relates intimate details of life in the last surviving Jewish ghetto in Poland.

Directors: Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
Music: Abraham Ellstein, Ivo Wesby
Cast: Molly Picon, Edmund Zayenda, Max Bozyk, Gerturde Bullman, Simche Fostel, Ola Shlifko, Menashe Oppenheim, Karol Latowicz, Max Perelman, Ruth Turkow, Lew Szryftzecer, Max Bryn
Description: 100 minutes B&W Yiddish with new additional English subtitles
Notes: Mamele is a musical comedy that embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz in all its diversity, with tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, and religious Jews celebrating Succoth. But the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role, saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. Picon stars as Khavtshi, a young woman who promises her dying mother that she will take care of her family. She's so busy cooking, cleaning and matchmaking for her brothers and sisters that she barely has any time for herself, until she discovers the violinist across the courtyard! The musical score also includes Picon's trademark theme song, "Abi Gezunt."

Description: videcassette (54 min.): color
Notes: Tracing the history of an old family photograph, the filmmaker, Esther Podemski, travels to Poland with a group of her parents' contemporaries. Fifty years after surviving the Holocaust, the elders return to their hometown, Poddebice, to conduct a memorial service in the Jewish graveyard. They find an empty field, marked by a lone tablet, the only testament to the history of this place to survive the wartime desecration. In the nearby city of Lodz, we meet Layb Pradskier, custodian of the immense, crumbling Jewish cemetery. Here we discover that all that remains of the once several hundred thousand strong Jewish population of Lodz is a handful of aging Holocaust survivors. A montage of historical images, snapshots, and archival music, together with new location footage, House of the World moves between personal accounts of Jewish Poland and historic events.
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Director: Anrzej Wajda
Description:  176 mins; color; English subtitles.
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn, Wojciech Pszoniak.
Notes: Academy Award Nomination Best Foreign Film 1976. An exceptional film by a famous director. It depicts the industrial development in 19th century Lodz and the combined influences of the Germans, Russians and Jews. Three industrialists representing different ethnic groups in Poland, a Pole (Olbrychski), a German (Seweryn) and a Jew (Pszoniak), build a textile factory in Lodz at the turn of the century. They encounter problems with the overworked, underpaid workers. Saga based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Wladyslaw Reymont, vividly depicts a society on the edge of change.

Description: 1 videocassette (90 min.): sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Notes: Made in 1980. Ages 15 through adult. Presents a photographic history of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes historic footage and stills and voice-over recollections as visuals document Polish Jews' patriotism in World War I, the postwar surge in anti-Semitism, the vitality of the Yiddish theater, the political activism of Jewish youth in the 1930s, the disastrous determination of most of Poland's Jews to weather the Nazi storm, and Germany's invasion in 1939.