Poland 1930s Exclusive Film Footage of Jewish Shtetl (Cleaned up footage)

Footage of Pre-WW2 communities, original uploader Zimmortal. Cleaned up slightly and audio (Sufjan Stevens) added by me. Original edit file was over 2GB so had to decompress slightly, then the length was over ten minutes so had to chop the last bit off, and in decompressing it gave it an extra border. I will fix this soon and again tinker with the light and definition and quality to try and bring more definition to these undefined people.
Would like to thank Zimmortal for giving me the go-ahead.

Information taken from Zimmortal:
Footage of Lbumol taken in the early 1930's when the village/shtetl was part of Poland. After 1939 it became part of the Soviet Union and since the fall of that empire, Ukraine. The film was shot by Julius Zim who left the village in the early 20's and became a successful furrier in New York City, successful enough to cross the ocean with his wife and a movie camera, a luxury at the time. The villagers, 85% Jews, are so unaccustomed to the new medium that they pose as if for a still shot. The dapper man in a cashmere coat with velvet lapel and hat is Sidney Zimerberg, Julius' cousin. After years of letters back and forth, Julius arranged a marriage for Sidney with Eva Zuriff, (by paying her mother a large sum of money) a shy woman in New York who had grown up in Lbumol herself until age 13, and returned there to marry Sidney so that he was able to obtain a visa and come to the USA the following year. His four brothers, their wives and children and all the other 4000 Jews in Lbumol were slaughtered by the Nazis in 1942. At an emotional reunion of the 250 members of the Zimerberg family, and two other branches of the family, in 1987 at the World Trade Center,a family tree showed that without the Holocaust, the number of people in the room would have numbered in the thousands.

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[gzk107]

thank you so much for putting this together - I was at the 1987 reunion at the World Trade Center and it remains one of the defining events of my life.

[lars3939]

@gzk107 Glad you enjoyed, its just a blessing to see such footage and I hope others get to witness...

[Chazzan805]

Thanks so much for posting.

[zimmortal]

wonderful!