us-005578-irn1004588
type: RecordSet
date: 1942-April 1943
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1004588
scope and content: Film with prologue and text. Introduction and intertitles. Image rolls at 01:42:37 with two women crossing a canal bridge in the city of Amsterdam. The streets are mostly empty. View of houses, bridges and canals, pedestrians, cars, a statue of Johann Rudolph Thorbecke (nineteenth century Dutch politician), businesses, the club Alcazar, a street sign showing"Thorbeckeplein Centru" [Thorbecke Square Center], the apartment address number"", more shop windows for the Alcazar club, and the signs"Für Wehrmacht verbote" "Prohibited for Arm"] and"Joodsche Gasten niet gewensch" "Jewish guests are not desirabl"]. MS, car with license plate # WH 17684. 01:44:06 The film (as seen in Story 1316) repeats for a third time with somewhat different intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:44:54 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl sits and knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto the street below. Women carry food trays. Women in the kitchen, clipping rations, and washing dishes. One dish falls and breaks. A group huddles around the bathroom sink with a hidden radio and celebrates. Sitting about, playing cards, reading. CU, signs/advertisements. Cleaning in the stairwell. A man delivers news to one young woman who cries. CU of the hidden radio and the group cheering. Two men bathe, jokingly splashing each other and making faces at the camera. The adolescent boy walks around the dinner table wearing a necktie but no shirt, and very large mock spectacles. Distributing canned goods. A clock shown passing the time with the name"Alcaza" on top. The group is gathered around the sink, listening to what…
title: Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with prologue, added historic footage, and text)