This
is totally awesome. Yet another invaluable resource provided by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I can tell I’m going to be a long time going through
all that this archive has to offer.
Yesterday
I spent a couple of hours looking at some amateur footage. This can give an authentic
record of history as it happened. Most disturbing probably was a few minutes’ film
about death and the dying at Dachau.
There
were quite a lot of reels about daily life for Jewish families – before the Holocaust
really got a grip. Of course, these were well-to-do families – who else could
afford their own cine camera? Maybe one can understand there would be a little jealousy
and resentment. Nevertheless, it is quite sobering to think that within five to
ten years of these very light-hearted little scenes, the players would either
all be dead or scarred for life.
