Reference Type: Audiovisual Material
Author: Michael Kloft
Year: 1992
Title: The Jews Of Kishinev
Type: Documentary
Short Title: The Jews Of Kishinev
Size/Length: 50'
Keywords: Jewish minority, Holocaust, Documentary
Abstract: Footage: Kishinev, the modern day capital of Moldovia. Footage: "Through Tears", a Soviet silent film made in 1925 about Jewish life in Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. Still: Map of the Pale of Settlement- made up of Polish, Belorussian and Ukranian territories. Footage: Modern day Bessarabia. Footage: Modern day- Jews praying in a synagogue. Still: Elderly Jew. Still: Group of Jews. Still: Jew at work. Still: Agricultural workers. Still: Jews working in the timber industry. Still: Jewish merchant. Footage: Easter celebrations 1903. Still: A drawing of the pogroms in Kishinev in 1903. Footage: Antisemetic pogrom in Kishinev. Overvoice: Nahmun Bialik's poem "In the Town of Slaughter". Still: Destruction caused by the pogrom. tills: Bodies of Jews killed in the pogrom. Still: Body of a Jewish child killed in the pogrom. Still: Jews wounded in the pogrom. Still: Jews who were wounded in the pogrom in hospital beds. Still: Jews next to the ruins of their homes. Still: Destruction caused by the pogrom. Still: Jews burying desecrated Torah scrolls. Footage: America at the turn of the century. Footage: Modern day YIVO Institute for Research, New York. Inter: Zachary M. Baker, of the YIVO Institute for Research, speaks of the impact that the pogrom in Kishinev had on world public opinion. Within the interview documents announcing mass meetings held in New York and in London are shown. Footage: The Statue of Liberty and the bay surrounding it. tills: Jewish immigrants coming to America. Footage: Immigrants arriving in New York. Footage: New York city. tills: A woman carrying a load on her head. Still: Jewish man. tills: Jewish woman. Still: Jewish youth. Still: Jewish Man. Footage: Czarist Russia, victims of antisemetic riots. Footage: Modern day pasture land. Footage: Modern day Romania. Footage: Bessarabia. Footage: The signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression pact of 1939. Footage: The Red Army moves into Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in June 1940. Footage: The People's Commissar for Defence, Marshal Semyon Kimoshenko, and the party's secretary for the Ukraine, Nikita Kruschev, speaking to crowds. Footage: Soviet newsreel of the retreating Romanian Army. Footage: Parade welcoming the Soviets in Bessarabia. Footage: Bucharist, Romania. Footage: General Ian Antonesko. Footage: Parade of Romanian soldiers. Footage: General Antonesko meets with representatives of Nazi Germany. Footage: Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. Footage: Jews liquidated by the task forces of the SD. Footage: Jews clearing Soviet battlefields after the German Army conquered the territory. Footage: German army. Footage: Prisoners of war. Still: German or Romanian soldiers operating a cannon. Still: German or Romanian soldiers on horseback. Still: German or Romanian soldiers. Still: Villagers welcome the incoming German Army. tills: German soldiers in battle. Still: Advancing German Army. Still: German soldiers. Still: Axis Army crossing the Nyesta river. tills: German soldiers in battle. Footage: Modern day location of the Kishinev Ghetto. Still: German soldier pointing at prisoners kneeling in front of him. Still: Prisoners hanging from a gallow. tills: Jews clearing ruins. Still: Street scene in the ghetto. Still: Jewish women and children. Still: Two elderly Jewish women. Still: Jews waiting in a line. Still: Jewish women. Inter: Israil Pilat, Historian, speaks of the conniving ways the Germans used to trick the Jews and then exterminate them. Still: Deportation of Jews. Still: Map. Still: Deportation of Jews. Still: Jews sitting on the ground. Still: Two Jewish women. Inter: Israil Pilat, Historian. Still: Everyday life in the ghetto. Still: Jews in carts with their belongings. Footage: The deportation of Jews to Transnistria. Inter: Edgar Hilsenrath, novelist, speaks of when he was deported from Kishinev to Transnistria. Footage: Jews doing forced labor. Inter: Edgar Hilsenrath. Footage: Buildings being burnt. Inter: con't. Footage: Jews being deported. Inter: con't. Footage: A river. Inter: con't. Footage: Bombings. Footage: Soldiers running. Footage: Soviet soldiers entering Moldavia. Footage: Aerial view of Kishinev. Footage: Parade in Kishinev commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Footage: Ligatchev addresses the people. Footage: Aerial view of Kishinev. Footage: Statue of a figure holding a cross. Footage: Crowds. Footage: Moldovian parliament. Footage: The president of the Republic of Moldova, Meerscher Snegur. Footage: Demonstrations in modern day Kishinev. Inter: Israil Pilat, historian, speaks of the antisemitism in modern day Kishinev. Footage: The exterior of the synagogue in Kishinev. Footage: Jews praying. Inter: Representative of the Government for the Jewish Minority, Alaxander Mandelblatt, speaks of the reasons for the emigration of Jews from the Republic of Moldova. Inter: Israil Pilat, historian, speaks of the Jews fear of reunification with Romania. Footage: Moldovians dancing. Footage: President Snegur speaking to the people. Footage: Clash between the reactionary Russian rebels of the Nyesta republic and the Moldovian nationalists. Inter: Moldovian Jews speak of their reasons for emigrating from Moldova and of the difficulty in leaving their homes. Footage: Kishinev's Jewish cemetery, some of the gravestones are marked: "Don't Remove!". Inter: Jewish woman speaks of her plan to emigrate to Israel. Footage: Kishinev's Jewish cemetery. Footage: Kishinev's train station, Jewish families emigrating.
URL: http://db.yadvashem.org/films/item.html?language=en&itemId=3859876
Access Date: 30.09.2014
Name of Database: The Visual Center - Online Film Database
Database Provider: Yad Vashem
Language: English