Sutin family footage

After escaping the Mir ghetto in August 1942 with his father, Jack Sutin (1923-2017) organized a small band of Jewish partisans and lived in a small bunker where he was eventually reunited with Rochelle Szleif (1924-2010). They first met at the beginning of the war at a Soviet school. Rochelle found Jack after fleeing a ghetto when her mother and sisters were shot, swimming across the Niemen River, and working for abusive Russian partisans. The couple remained in the forest until the end of the war and were married in a Jewish ceremony in the Soviet Union. They then lived in the Neu Freimann DP camp, where Jack worked as both camp administrator and photojournalist for the Yiddish newspaper"Jidisze Cajtung" Their daughter Cecilia (now Dobrin) was born in the camp. The family immigrated to the US in August 1949. https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/178855/ 

Sutin family footage 

Family footage showing CUs of Cecilia, the daughter of Jack Sutin. Brief shot of Julius Sutin, the father of Jack Sutin. 

Neu Freimann was a DP camp in the Munich district, part of the American-occupied zone, open from July 1946 to June 15, 1949. Residents - both Jewish and non-Jewish Polish DPs - lived in confiscated workers' housing. The camp became predominantly Jewish with an average population of 2,570 Jews per year. 

The film was not fed properly in the camera, so the footage is relatively unclear. Label on reel reads"Tape 1: #1 Congress/Family/Freiman" 

Additional family photographs are available in the USHMM Photo Archives.