Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview

Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview 

(LIB 6554) First Religious Services, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Full screen view, crowd listening to services and voices of women singing"God Bless Americ" in English. MSs, various flags of Allied nations (US, Belgium, Spain, UK, USSR) flying from staffs held by attendants. CU, Belgian flag with"Dacha" written across center. LS, congregation singing"Hatikva", the Jewish national anthem. A Hebrew prayer is read by a Rabbi David Max Eichhorn. Inmate Interview, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, speaks in English of his experience in the various Nazi camps. 

USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019. 

With Sound. See Film ID 152 for duplicate footage without sound. Additional documentation reporting Rabbi David Max Eichhorn's depiction of this religious service at Dachau located in USHMM departmental files.