Poland 1930s Exclusive Film Footage of Jewish Shtetl

[NO AUDIO] 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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• hebrew

[adamatova]

Zimmortal you could run this through any video editing program and lighten it.

[zimmortal]

how do i do that using iMovie?

[ferdovit]

Polish citizens have the highest count of Righteous among the Nations in the world, at 6,066, despite the fact that in German-occupied Poland all household members were punished by death if a Jew were found concealed in their home or on their property. Over 700 Polish Righteous among the Nations were murdered by the Germans for aiding or sheltering their Jewish neighbors.

[hahistorion]

What a tragedy!

Polish Judaism is dear to my heart.

[BratWody]

Piece of an old Poland where we lived together in peace and respect to each others tradition, religion, culture and history...

I guess many of those who we see died in the Shoah... Jewish from shtetls had a specific accent so it was very difficult to save them, and we in Poland had the most terryfying law under occupation. Helping the Jewish in any way meant death to those who helped...

[692ALBANNACH]

INTERESTING HISTORIC FILM.

[CrazyLeiFeng]

My parents had good relationships with local Jews. This is an interesting movie showing our villages before the war but needs some serious computer editing.

[jbbnp]

Pochodze z miasteczka w ktorym 1/3 mieszkancow Zydow wymordowali Niemcy.

Do dzisiejszego dnia jest to smutne, szare miasto. Przed wojna mialo 2 gazety zydowskie.

[lars3939]

The first Vienna Award;

[foxojot]

W czasie egzekucji Polski już nie było na mapie. W moim małym miasteczku była synagoga, kirkut. Po wojnie nie zostało nic!!! A sąsiadów Polaków narodowości żydowskiej wytłukli Niemcy.

Dlaczego!!!!!!!!!!

[adamatova]

google increasing light videos in imovie - should work and you'll get the for dummies (no intention there - it's what came up as most viable)