The scene still was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
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.
Black-and-white photographic scene still printed on rectangular, white paper, with a white exterior border on all four sides. The image depicts an outdoor scene, with a young, woman kneeling in the foreground, her wrists bound around a white pillar. Standing behind her are four uniformed, Nazi officers, one of whom is holding a whip. In the background are two rows of teenage schoolgirls standing in a semi-circle as they look on. Depicted: Bonita Granville as Anna Müller, Tim Holt as Karl Bruner, Crane Whitley as Whipping Sergeant, others unidentified
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overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm)
Scene still for the American feature film, “Hitler’s Children,” released by RKO Radio Pictures in January 1943. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. “Hitler’s Children” was adapted from Gregor Ziemer’s novel, “Education For Death,” which was based on the author’s experiences and observations as the former headmaster of Berlin’s American Colony School. The film focuses on a young American woman in Germany, who denounces Nazi ideology and the state-sanctioned treatment of women as vessels for procreation, and is forced into a labor camp. After running away, she is subjected to public flogging and is eventually executed. The film was one of the first of several films to feature the theme of women persecuted by Nazi Germany. 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.
Scene still from the film “Hitler’s Children” (1943)