us-005578-irn614181-irn692975
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archival history: The scene stills were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
biographical history: The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: .1 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts two men and a woman, all depicted from the shoulders up. The woman is standing in left profile on the right, wearing a turtleneck sweater, and has short curly hair. She is staring at the man on the left, who is standing in right profile and wearing a dark coat. Between them is a taller man, who is looking at the man on the left. There is a set of white letters and numbers in the bottom left corner, and the English film title is printed in black in the bottom margin. On the back of the still, adhered to the bottom edge, is a rectangular piece of cream-colored paper with inverted typed text and a handwritten inscription. A barcode and number are printed on a white, rectangular label in the bottom left corner, and a large number is handwritten near the bottom edge. The corners are bent and worn from use. Depicted: Stanislaw Zaczyk as Tadek, Stefan Sródka as Bronek, Barbara Drapinska as Marta Weiss .2 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts three women wearing dark caps, and a man wearing glasses, looking over a wooden wall painted with a German word, bolted to metal framing. Barbed wire is strung between the wooden wall and the metal framing above it. There is a set of white letters and numbers in the bottom right corner, and the English film title is printed in black in the bottom margin. On the back of the still, adhered to the bottom edge, is a rectangular piece of cream-colored paper with inverted typed text and a handwritten inscription. A barcode and number are printed on a white, rectangular label in the bottom left corner. There is staining in the lower right corner. Depicted: Unidentified .3 Black-and-white photographic scene still with a white margin on all four sides. The photograph depicts three women inside a camp barrack. One woman is laying on a lower bunk, with her eyes closed, and hair …
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: Restrictions on use. Copyright status is unknown.
date: 1948 March 28, approximately 1949 March 21
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: eng
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has record set type: Item
identifier: irn692975
is or was included in: us-005578-irn614181
record resource extent: .1: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .4: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .5: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .6: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .7: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .8: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .9: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .10: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .11: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .12: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .13: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .14: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .15: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .16: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
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scope and content: Set of 16 American scene stills for the film, “Ostatni Etap,” (“The Last Stop” or “The Last Stage”) originally released in Poland in March 1948, and released in the United States in 1949. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and used as marketing and advertising tools. The film centers on prisoners staffing the women’s camp hospital at Auschwitz and their attempted resistance activities. The film was the first theatrical Holocaust feature made in Eastern Europe following the war, and was one of the earliest epic films to center on women. It was filmed in and around the actual camp at Auschwitz, giving it a sense of accuracy and authenticity not found in other portrayals. In addition, the director, writers, and many of the cast and extras were themselves former concentration camp prisoners. Although the film centered on Nazi brutality against the Jewish population, it also depicted prisoners from other groups. “Ostatni Etap” served as a major influence on later films about the Holocaust, such as Steven Spielberg’s 1993 feature, “Schindler’s List.” This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
title: Set of 16 scene stills for the film “Ostatni Etap” (1948)