Camp Hemshekh 1969 Part 1 of 2

The 1969 camp movie of Camp Hemshekh in Mountaindale, New York.

If you recognize yourself or others in the film, please use the comments feature to let everyone know who appears in the film at which time.

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• Hemshekh
• Mountaindale
• Yiddish
• Summer
• Camp
• 1969

[HemshekhZingt]

I see Hemshekh as a very poignant attempt by our parents to recreate the institutions they knew before the war for their own children.

It wasn't always successful or appropriate but in my view, it was one of the most important parts of my own growing up and it was the most important influence on my identity as a child of survivors and as a Jew.

Rather than being a nightmare, it was a refuge that gave me great memories, great knowledge, and close friends, some of whom I still see to this day.

[petulia68]

Notice this video has numerous viewings but not many comments. Know why? Because this camp was a nightmare! The whole place was like a bad childhood dream that most would like to forget.

My sense is that the parents of the campers, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, either didn't understand what a "fun camp" really was, or simply wanted to give their kids a taste of misery!

No wonder, the guy that ran the place was a bonehead!

[jamisaaron]

Wow! You can see my beautiful big sister Etjen being carried around and twirled in the beginning of the film. Who was that who carried her?

Jamis Mack