Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305

Filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer also filmed two of his children in the Westerborkfilm…

Stefan (left) & Ursula Breslauer, children of Rudolf Breslauer, the filmmaker of the Westerbork film at the farm of Camp Westerbork in 1944 – identified by the dutch photographer Sake Elzinga, who received Breslauer’s family photo albums last year when the family of Ursula – the only survivor – visited an expo on Breslauer in the Westerbork museum in the Netherlands.

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker ordered the Westerbork film , made by the German Jewish prisoner, photographer, Rudolf Breslauer in the spring of 1944.

Today 80 years ago – March 5, 1944 – the camp is an ‘Arbeitslager’ – a work camp – when Rudolf Breslauer starts filming the daily life of the Westerbork prisoners — inside : in the barracks, for example a religious service, cabaret, workshops, factories, aircraft and battery recycling, medical care, and outside the barracks : construction of a greenhouse, a football match, women working out, chopping wood, incoming transports, and eventually also the departure of a deportation train. After Breslauer films the deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz on May 19, 1944 the filming stops.
The haunting image of the 9-year-old dutch Sinti-girl Settela, standing in the closing doors of the goods train, and the unique footage of that deportation train that leaves the Westerbork camp, became iconic after the war.

Deportation Breslauer family

Werner Rudolf Breslauer , his wife Bella Weihsmann, sons Stefan and Max Michael (Mischa), and daughter Ursula were deported autumn 1944 from Westerbork to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Only Ursula survived.

Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | Frame 127475 from Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949 9313 | Footage filmed by Rudolf Breslauer in 1944, courtesy of NIOD | Sound and Vision

Notes

Clip from : Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | Complete Remastered Edition | YouTube https://youtu.be/ZiLNDziwEtc

Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/03/02/westerbork-film-🎦-2021-complete-remastered-edition-20220302/

Kinderen van filmmaker Breslauer herkend in historische Westerborkfilm. Dutch national news broadcaster NOS Nieuws, in cooperation with RTV Drenthe, 13:18 Monday 4 March 2024 | URL https://nos.nl/artikel/2511414-kinderen-van-filmmaker-breslauer-herkend-in-historische-westerborkfilm

Scene with Stefan & Ursula Breslauer, starting at 56:13 in the 1986 RVD edition of the Westerborkfilm:
Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerbork Film RVD | 20240305 | Settela•Com | URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfNzA72JeGgVoOFp_VTI4EQQr3yTwXu6_

Settela Film | 20220630 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

Deportation Westerbork Film | 20210719 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

English introduction to Westerborkfilm :
Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/

Citation info : Stefan & Ursula Breslauer in Westerborkfilm | 20240305 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2024/03/05

Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240228

TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels
February 28th, 2009, Brussels. Day two, of my encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation outside in the Royal park in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. One of the stills and establising video shots made that Saturday morning after finishing long take video recordings of the installation, during a walk from our hotel in the Leopold (European) Quarter via the Royal park direction the historic centre of Brussels. That weekend break in Brussels, today 15 years ago, turned out to be a turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels was published.

Notes

2. Original post : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | imichel.com | https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html

3. The one minute film (2010) : Transport XX – face to face | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0002-V | https://miracles.media

4. All editions : TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/

6. Vlog – The One Minutes – De Waar Geschiedenis Begint Show | 20101130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2010/11/30/vlog-the-one-minutes-de-waar-geschiedenis-begint-show-imichelcom-20101130/

7. Kazerne Dossin Frontpage 2012 | 20171130 | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/11/30/kazerne-dossin-frontpage-2012/

9. Camera used for both photo and video (720p HD video) of the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels is the Sony DSC-T500 which has a CCD sensor – with global shutter – thus not affected by rolling shutter distortion while panning the installation.

Update

20240423 – Text update.

First Encounter TRANSPORT XX … | 20240227

TRANSPORT XX — Installation Brussels

February 28th, 2009, Brussels — my first encounter with the TRANSPORT XX installation in Brussels, that presented 1200 photographic portraits of Jews deported from Malines (Belgium) to Auschwitz in 1943. Turning point in my life. Two months later – April 19, 2009 – the film was published.

Notes

2. Original post : TRANSPORT XX — installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | imichel.com | https://www.imichel.com/2009/04/transport-xx-installation-brussels.html

3. The one minute film (2010) : Transport XX – face to face | ISAN 0000-0006-C208-0000-D-0000-0002-V | https://miracles.media

4. All editions : TRANSPORT XX – installation Brussels | 20090419 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | https://michelvanderburg.com/2009/04/19/transport-xx-installation-brussels/

Deportation | 20240226

Camp commander (SS-Obersturmführer) Albert Gemmeker oversees the deportation of Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Westerbork transit camp May 19, 1944 .

Gemmeker is the producer of the Westerborkfilm — he ordered the film. Cameraman is the German Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer.

Source : Frame 2608 from Westerborkfilm Introduction | 20220507 | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2022/05/07/westerborkfilm-introduction-20220507/

Amsterdam 1939 | 20240110

Screenshots from the film Amsterdam 1939 a trip through the canals and along the old facades of Amsterdam in 1939 , published first by Polygoon in 1940 a few months before World War II. Images are discussed in detail in the film.

Notes
1. Amsterdam 1939 | 20240109 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/01/09/amsterdam-1939-20240109/
2. Resolution is low, since the original archive footage from Sound & Vision (Open Images) is only 352 × 288 pixels.

Citation info : Amsterdam 1939 | 20240110 | Miracles•Media

Amsterdam 1939 | 20240109

Amsterdam 1939 | 20240109 | Miracles•Media
Documentary – Dutch spoken , English subtitles.

EN – In 1939 with Polygoon film company through… the canals and along the old facades of Amsterdam. Published in 1940 a few months before World War II.

NL – In 1939 met de Polygoon filmfabriek door de grachten en langs de oude gevels van Amsterdam. Gepubliceerde in 1940 kort voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Tocht langs de Stadsbank van Lening, Vondels huis, huis op 3 grachten, Kolkje, schuilkerk Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder, Schreierstoren, Montelbaanstoren, Gooyer molen, Jordaan, Lange Jan, Westertoren, Bickerseiland, Waaggebouw, Amsterdamse universiteit, Agnietenschool, gildekamer chirurgijnen.

Film edited (image and sound) from a 1940 Polygoon-Profilti documentary | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
Music : (1) RAF March String Chorus, and (2) Roses in the Garden , both by Jean-Miles Carter | Artlist.
Citation info : Amsterdam 1939 | 20240109 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | TakeNode 057550f0-a29a-4696-9b7d-a9a7825300d2

Gouda Candle Factory – 1920s Gouda Works – Gouwe River | 20231130

Gouda Candle Factory – 1920s

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NL – Productie van kaarsen in de Koninklijke Stearine Kaarsenfabriek Gouda, in een fabriekscomplex (met ook Viruly’s zeepziederij die overgenomen was) gelegen aan de Goudse stadsgracht Turfsingel tussen de Gouwe en Hollandsche IJssel.
Bewerking uit films rond 1918 gemaakt door Willy Mullens | Haghe Film | Open Beelden / Celluloid Remix / Eye Filmmuseum | Beeld & Geluid.

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EN – Production of Gouda candles – in the Royal Stearine Candle Factory Gouda in a factory complex (with Viruly’s Soap factory having been taken over) located on the Gouda city canal Turfsingel, between the Gouwe river and Hollandsche IJssel river, in Holland.
Edit from films made around 1918 by Willy Mullens | Haghe Film | Open Images / Celluloid Remix / Eye Filmmuseum | Sound & Vision.

Credit Info : Gouda Candle Factory – 1920s Gouda Works – Gouwe River | 20231130 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | TakeNode 57791a72-f32f-470d-82ef-9861e9e6a0da

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