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Uncle Chatzkel

From Tsarist Russia to independent Lithuania, Uncle Chatzkel has seen it allÑexcept for his Australian relatives.
Year : 1999 | Total Duration : 52.5 Minutes | Producer : Rod Freedman, Emile Sherman
Director : Rod Freedman |
Pan around room over framed photographs, CU of Chatzkel Lemchen as small boy in family group. Opening titles. CU Position of Lithuania on map.
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Access No. 129565 | 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Lithuanian street scenes, horse drawn cart, elderly couple
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Access No. 129566 | 20 secs | 1930s | Lithuania | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Archival footage Czar and entourage pass row of children, Cossacks on horses, crowd of men (at time of Russian Revolution)
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Access No. 130132 | 8 secs | 1910s | Russia / USSR | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Archival footage of Jewish people in camp (World War II), armoured tanks in streets (Communists
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Access No. 130133 | 5 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Archival women shovelling snow in street
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Access No. 130134 | 2 secs | 1910s | Lithuania | © Igor Voitenko | Colour |
Archival women in Lithuanian traditional dress, still photograph film maker Rod Freedman's grandmother.
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Access No. 130135 | 4 secs | 1910s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | Colour |
Archival footage sign on street in Yiddish, street market, woman selling fish. Still B&W photograph young girl wearing star (indicating that she is Jewish).
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Access No. 130136 | 7 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | Colour |
Archival footage Jewish gravestone, Star of David engraving on it.
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Access No. 130137 | 3 secs | 1930s | Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Title: Uncle Chatzkel. Various photographs taken at the time of Chatzkel Lemchen being presented the Order of Gediminas on his 90th birthday for contribution to Lithuanian culture & science. Still photograph Chatzkel holding flowers. Chatzkel at microphone. Photograph audience applauding. Photograph Chatzkel cutting ribbon. Photograph Chatzkel with 2 women. Photograph Chatzkel being given rose by woman. Photograph Chatzkel with book.
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Access No. 130138 | 32 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | Colour |
CU Order of Gediminas and medal presented to Chatzkel Lemchen on his 90th birthday for contribution to Lithuanian culture & science. Rachel Kostanian (translation) from Vilnius Gaon Jewish Museum talking about Chatzkel being one of best scientists in Lithuanian language, his work as lexicographer. Judita Rozina, Chatzkel's archivist, saying he acted as bridge between Russian, Jewish, Yiddish and Lithuanian cultures.
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Access No. 130139 | 33 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Sydney skyline at night and at dusk, ferry on harbour. Film maker Rod Freedman's family gathered, Jewish man reads from prayer book in Hebrew / Yiddish . Zoom in CU book.
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Access No. 130140 | 17 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Children and adults from film maker Rod Freedman's family gathered at table for Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) dinner. Shots apple dipped into honey for sweet and fruitful year ahead. Elderly woman Dora Tanner (niece of Chatzkel Lemchen) making speech to family about coming (to Australia) over 30 years ago, CU's various members of family of different ages listening.
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Access No. 130141 | 31 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia. | © Robe Productions | Colour |
CU fingers pointing to photographs . Film maker Rod Freedman's relatives Emile and Ondine Sherman showing him photographs of themselves with Uncle Chatzkel Lemchen in Lithuania during recent visit.
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Access No. 130142 | 16 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Film maker Rod Freedman en route to Lithuania, in airport lounge at Frankfurt, view of aircraft through airport window, Freedman looking out of aircraft window, aerial down to green fields and village over wing. Freedman carrying flowers walks to house, rings door bell, Chatzkel Lemchen appears, they hug. Chatzkel says (translation) he is happy to see his relative, Freedman presents flowers indicating each is from family. Emotional greeting.
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Access No. 130143 | 1 min 25 secs | 1990s | Frankfurt, Germany & Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
HAS Lithuanian city of Vilnius on banks of river, VS buildings around town, children in street, exteriors Chatzkel Lemchen's house, piano in yard. Chatzkel to camera saying (translation) he had met with his editor otherwise he would have been too busy. Chatzkel with his editor (he is working on Russian-Lithuanian dictionary for schools). CU pages, men working together. Judita Rozina, Chatzkel's archivist, (translation) talking about Chatzkel's work compiling dictionaries. VS dissolves books and Chatzkel reading and at work.
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Access No. 130144 | 1 min 54 secs | 1990s | Vilnius,Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Rocha Lemchen, Chatzkel's Lemchen's mother.
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Access No. 130145 | 7 secs | 1900s | Lithuania | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Uncle Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about his mother Rocha Lemchen having seven children, working as shopkeeper.
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Access No. 130146 | 8 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Avraham Yaakov Lemchen, Chatzkel Lemchen's father
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Access No. 130147 | 6 secs | 1900s | Lithuania | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about his father Avraham Yaakov Lemchen who traded firewood.
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Access No. 130148 | 12 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chatzkel Lemchen's parents Avraham Yaakov Lemchen and Rocha Lemchen
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Access No. 130149 | 4 secs | 1900s | Lithuania | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Papile railway station building, cow in field with shed behind.
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Access No. 130150 | 8 secs | 1990s | Papile, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Family photo, CU Gita, film maker Rod Freedman's grandmother . Photograph Gita with new husband before they left Lithuania for South Africa, gathered with family (1913).
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Access No. 130151 | 13 secs | 1910s | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Freight train, good shot horse and cart piled high with hay, railway line, little girl in red dress, village street, village houses, man walking along street pushing pram, window of house, children walk down street, woman at well with water.
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Access No. 130152 | 48 secs | 1990s | Near Papile, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Detail of photograph showing wrist watch. Still photograph German soldier. Archival footage World War I bombs hitting ground, barbed wire fence over trench, soldiers run from trenches, bombs, aircraft, pilots in aircraft, bomb hitting ground in village as people flee, gun mounted on tank. WWI
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Access No. 130153 | 20 secs | 1910s | Europe | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about seeing a Cossack and a German (during First World War )
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Access No. 130154 | 11 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage First World War: Cossacks on horses, troops charge on horses, mounted troops.
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Access No. 130155 | 12 secs | 1910s | Russia / USSR | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about how his family fled to Zagare (during First World War ) but told all Jews had been expelled. VS good shots locked and shuttered doors and windows.
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Access No. 130156 | 33 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Russian soldiers salute Commander Nikolai Nikolaievich (WWI) who was responsible for ordering all Jewish people from Kaunas province
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Access No. 130157 | 7 secs | 1910s | Lithuania, Europe | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about Jewish people being removed from Kaunas province (during WWI) in case they collaborated with the Germans.
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Access No. 130158 | 9 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage villagers in horses and carts leaving village, villagers rounded up, man tending child (during World War I when Jewish people were ordered to leave area). Map showing route through Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Belarus which Chatzkel Lemchen's family took to Penza in Russia superimposed footage of feet walking.
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Access No. 130159 | 20 secs | 1910s | Lithuania, Europe | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Still photograph Chatzkel Lemchen as young boy, resting head on hand.
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Access No. 130160 | 4 secs | 1910s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about the Russian Revolution breaking out (whilst he and his family lived in Penza, Russia)
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Access No. 130161 | 16 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Bolsheviks, crowd on street raising their hats, 2 shots (Russian Revolution).
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Access No. 130162 | 10 secs | 1910s | Russia | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about general who was a cruel harsh man (during Russian Revolution, soldiers turned on him)
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Access No. 130163 | 13 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage street scene, soldiers surround body lying on street, body being removed in sling (general who was killed by his soldiers during Russian Revolution). Photograph General with glass smashed.
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Access No. 130164 | 13 secs | 1910s | Russia / USSR | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) remembers how he asked as a child ÒIs this really a revolutionÓ (when a general was killed by his soldiers in the Russian Revolution).
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Access No. 130165 | 4 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Russian Revolution. Crowd waving hats, sign being hauled down from building, crowd on street some with flags. Archival German newspaper. Soldier's hands handing out rifles from case, clouds across sky, soldiers with bayonets, soldier marching. Battleship at sea, soldiers on street carrying banners, soldiers lie behind shield, broken window, window being smashed, soldiers running, bodies on street. Vladimir Lenin giving speech, soldiers wave hats in air
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Access No. 130166 | 36 secs | 1910s | USSR / Russia | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Still photograph Chatzkel Lemchen aged 17. Photograph 2 young boys, one is brother Sholom who died of typhoid. Photograph of another brother Mayer who was killed in first World War.
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Access No. 130167 | 14 secs | 1910s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about how his family returned to Lithuania from Russia (after World War I).
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Access No. 130168 | 10 secs | 1990s | Vilnius,Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival footage people being loaded into trains, carrying trunks over railway lines, child wearing mittens and hat, children at station looking cold.
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Access No. 130169 | 11 secs | 1910s | Russia / Lithuania | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about stealing coal to use in stove (whilst travelling on train back to Lithuania from Russia following First World War).
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Access No. 130170 | 6 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage people on roof of train, view of countryside from train.
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Access No. 130171 | 6 secs | 1910s | Lithuania / Russia | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation)about when his family returned to Papile (Lithuania) from Russia (after World War I) it had been destroyed.
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Access No. 130172 | 13 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph HAS town of Zagare, Lithuania 1921. Photograph people standing outside houses
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Access No. 130173 | 9 secs | 1920s | Zagare, Lithuania, Europe | © Jack and Gertie Trubik | B&W |
B&W Disused building which used to be factory dissolve to colour. Isaak Mendelson (translation), a neighbour of Chatzkel Lemchen's family in Zagare during 1920's, outside building talking about Chatzkel's father being a saintly person, lending people money and member of Jewish Committee.
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Access No. 130174 | 26 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Still photograph Chatzkel Lemchen's father Avraham as elderly man in hat
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Access No. 130175 | 4 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
House in Zagare, view through window looking out through lace curtains, track interior kitchen, dumplings on plates, saucepans on fuel stove
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Access No. 130176 | 29 secs | 1990s | Zagare, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Photograph Chatzkel Lemchen's father Avraham as elderly man seated at table
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Access No. 130177 | 7 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Pan around room with peeling wallpaper. Empty street in Zagare
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Access No. 130178 | 15 secs | 1990s | Zagare, Lithuania. Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
B&W photograph street scene in Zagare
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Access No. 130179 | 5 secs | 1920s | Zagare, Lithuania, Europe | © Jack & Gertie Trubik | B&W |
B&W photographs Professor Jonas Jablonskis, Lithuanian linguist in military cap. Professor being fed by a nurse, in wheelchair, in wheelchair surrounded by students.
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Access No. 130180 | 17 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about the three different accents in the Lithuanian language
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Access No. 130181 | 23 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph Professor Jonas Jablonskis, Lithuanian linguist, in wheelchair with nurse and woman by his side.
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Access No. 130182 | 4 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Portrait of Professor Jonas Jablonskis, Lithuanian linguist on Lithuanian money. Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) recalling his meeting with Jablonskis at university and telling him was a Jew and Jablonskis telling other students that he (Chatzkel) knew the language even if he was not Lithuanian.
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Access No. 130183 | 42 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph Chatzkel Lemchen as young man.
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Access No. 130184 | 8 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
B&W photograph class of students at Vilkomir Yiddish Gimnazia (Lithuania's fist Yiddish high school), dissolve detail showing Chatzkel Lemchen as their teacher. B&W photograph class members, dissolve to detail showing Chatzkel
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Access No. 130185 | 15 secs | 1920s | Lithuania | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Rudi Abriel, former student of Chatzkel Lemchen talking about the last time he saw Chatzkel 60 years ago
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Access No. 130186 | 5 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph Chatzkel Lemchen sitting in deck chair
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Access No. 130187 | 3 secs | 1920s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Rudi Abriel, former student of Chatzkel Lemchen talking about the impact he had as teacher with his love for language, search for perfection.
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Access No. 130188 | 22 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival footage Lithuanian parade to celebrate 10 years of independence, nuns, soldiers, children, bishop in parade (1928)
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Access No. 130189 | 13 secs | 1920s | Lithuania | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Archival footage street scene, sign in Yiddish, man buys newspaper on street. High diver, diving. PAN down Great Synagogue, interior synagogue, Jewish men praying in synagogue
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Access No. 130190 | 20 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Archival footage women walk in evening dress walk out of cubicles. Women at fashion parade
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Access No. 130191 | 6 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Archival footage people across lake in canoes. Woman putting one child in pram, older woman will other small child on park bench.
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Access No. 130192 | 8 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen to camera (translation) talking about meeting his future wife who was a German teacher in a Hebrew school whilst he was a Lithuanian teacher in a Yiddish high school
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Access No. 130193 | 10 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph Chatzkel Lemchen's wife Ela (Lena) Wohlson in group photograph
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Access No. 130194 | 8 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen to camera (translation) talking about how he fell in love with his wife Lena
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Access No. 130195 | 6 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
Still photographs Chatzkel Lemchen with future wife Lena Wohlson, couple outside house, couple reading at table. Photograph Lena with baby , Chatzkel's two sons Azarye as baby in pram, Victor (Vigele). Photograph Lena holding Victor. Chatzkel, Lena and two children. Lena holding Azarye pan left to Chatzkel and Victor.
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Access No. 130196 | 39 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Rudi Abriel former student of Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about Chatzkel's son Victor (Vigele) as a child
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Access No. 130197 | 16 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph Chatzkel's son Victor (Vigele) reading as a child
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Access No. 130198 | 4 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Archival footage aircraft taxiing, people alighting from aircraft, welcoming party at airport, party arrive at airport, diplomatic cars drive away. Photograph Russian and German leaders sign Molotov- Ribbentrop Non- Aggression Treaty (August 1939). Photograph Russian leader Josef Stalin and other shaking hands, map showing resulting in division of Poland and Baltic states superimposed over top.
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Access No. 130199 | 22 secs | 1930s | Europe | © Igor Voitenko | B&W |
Archival footage printing press printing LTSR emblem (Lithuania as Soviet republic). Soldiers dance in front of picture of Russian communist leaders Lenin and Stalin
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Access No. 130200 | 7 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Australia | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Second World War. Archival footage aircraft, people watch aircraft, bombs drop, tank, invading forces, open topped car drives over ploughed field, soldier on motorbike, house being bombed, tank flames behind, women and children wave to soldiers, soldiers march. WWII
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Access No. 130201 | 20 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Second World War, Posters of Soviet leaders Lenin and Stalin being burned, street sign being trampled on, fire in street WWII
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Access No. 130202 | 5 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) saying he was busy teaching in Kaunus and hadn't heard about Hitler exterminating Jews (during WWII)
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Access No. 130203 | 7 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival German Nazi leader Adolph Hitler driven through street, crowd gathered, giving Heil Hitler salute, crowd listening, street decoration (translation) ÒLithuania serves the FuhrerÓ. WWII
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Access No. 130204 | 12 secs | 1930s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen to camera (translation) talking about the day (during Second World War) when men came and took him away and many (Jews) were killed in Letukis Garage, Kaunus (25 June 1941). WWII
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Access No. 130205 | 38 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs taken by German soldiers of people looking at bodies of Jews massacred by Lithuanian fascists during Second World War (25 June 1941). Details of photo. Photograph man holding staff. WWII
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Access No. 130206 | 17 secs | 1940s | Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen talking (translation) about how his landlord saved him (from massacre of other Jews in Kaunus by Lithuanian fascists during Second World War (25 June 1941) WWII
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Access No. 130207 | 23 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs taken by German soldiers of people looking at bodies of Jews massacred by Lithuanian fascists during Second World War (25 June 1941) WWII
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Access No. 130208 | 14 secs | 1940s | Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Archival propaganda film promoting Jews as communists. Woman writing, student writing on blackboard, children's classroom, picture of Soviet leader Stalin on wall. Children performing, children applaud. Two Jewish men walk, Jewish man on street. CU unhealthy Jewish man, Jewish man smiles to camera pan to woman and to man with moustache, Jewish men. Graphic insert into newspaper. (Translation of narration which talks about Jews wanting to dominate the world by deception) WWII
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Access No. 130209 | 58 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Copy of death ledger Einsatzgruppen Reports, Nazi seal on records, signature on records (recording Jews killed in Lithuania by German deaths squads and Lithuanian militia). Photograph Chatzkel Lemchen's father Avraham, photograph mother Rocha (1930's). WWII
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Access No. 130210 | 30 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Zagare street, woman in park, woman down street, shop with balcony, balcony. Isaak Mendelson in park , former neighbour of Lemchen family, recalling (translation) the story of how 3000 Jewish people were massacred by German death squad during Second World War at Yom Kipur 1941. Pan around houses surrounding Naryshkin Park, fast zoom and spinning round of camera. Grass tilt to leaves of tree, monument, mass grave. Mendelson in park at memorial. Film maker Rod Freedman walking in park, with flowers at monument, hugs Mendelson. Freeze frame Mendelson. WWII
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Access No. 130211 | 2 mins 28 secs | 1990s | Zagare, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs horse and cart loaded with possessions at Kovno Ghetto. Ghetto register (display at museum) WWII
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Access No. 130212 | 17 secs | 1940s | Kovno, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Museum | B&W |
VS House in ghetto that Chatzkel Lemchen and family lived in during Second World War, family sitting outside house with dog. Chatzkel to camera (translation) recalling how he and his family were ordered into big square WWII
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Access No. 130213 | 27 secs | 1990s | Kovno, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs Jews walking into square in Kovno (1941), woman walking, Jewish men, long line of people in snow WWII. World War2
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Access No. 130214 | 15 secs | 1940s | Kovno, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen recalling (translation) an encounter with (Jewish) cellist and member of Gestapo. WWII
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Access No. 130215 | 10 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Photograph cellist and violinists. WWII
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Access No. 130216 | 9 secs | 1940s | Kovno, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
IX th Fort in Kaunus with barbed wire where 10 000 Jewish people were killed on 28 October 1941
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Access No. 130217 | 6 secs | 1990s | Kaunus, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph Jewish people being marched to XIth fort in Kaunas during Second World War where they were later killed . WWII
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Access No. 130218 | 3 secs | 1940s | Kaunus, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
IX th Fort in Kaunus with green grass surrounds where 10 000 Jewish people were killed on 28 October 1941. Boy holding toy gun, boys with toy guns, boy and girl playing freeze on boy with gun
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Access No. 130219 | 26 secs | 1990s | Kaunus, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph Gestapo firing squad shooting Jewish man in head. Photo hanged man. Photo firing squad. Photo mass grave. Two Jewish men wearing yellow stars, one is Dr Elchanan Elkes, chairman of ghetto council. Photo Nazi soldiers in long coats. WWII
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Access No. 130221 | 25 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) saying that they (Nazi group called Einsatzstab Rosenberg) wanted 5 people who spoke different languages
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Access No. 130222 | 22 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
Photographs HAS hall filled with books, hall with books with man on ladder, man with armful of books (people working with books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War under instruction of Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg) WWII
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Access No. 130223 | 19 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) saying how (Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg) gave him job to sort books (seized from Jewish homes during Second World War ) according to language
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Access No. 130224 | 10 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs man on ladder filing books. Jewish book, bookshelves, books on shelves filed by subject (people working with books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War under instruction of Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg) WWII
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Access No. 130225 | 11 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Hand turning pages of book with writing in Hebrew ?
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Access No. 130226 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Photographs man standing among pile of books, man sitting at table full of books ( books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War under instruction of Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg) WWII
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Access No. 130227 | 4 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Hebrew writing in book
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Access No. 130228 | 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Photograph man reading and woman typing at desk . Photograph men pack books.
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Access No. 130229 | 8 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about German Dr Benke in charge of his work with books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War (Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg)
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Access No. 130230 | 9 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Photograph books being loaded under trucks (books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War under instruction of Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg) WWII. World War 2
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Access No. 130231 | 3 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Photograph men packing books in crates. WWII
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Access No. 130233 | 2 secs | 1940s | Prague, (Czechoslovakia), Czech Republic | © The Jewish Museum in Prague | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about German Dr Benke in charge of his work with books seized from Jewish homes during Second World War (Nazi group Einsatzstab Rosenberg). VS Lithuanian book, copy of ÒSinbad the SailorÓ . WWII. World War 2.
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Access No. 130234 | 38 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Photograph Jewish people in Kovno Ghetto (1944). Children with woman in ghetto. WWII
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Access No. 130235 | 9 secs | 1940s | Kovno, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Photograph Victor (Vigele) Lemchen as child, Chatzkel's elder son
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Access No. 130236 | 6 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Photograph Jewish boy with star on chest sitting at machine in workshop. Teenage girl wearing star (in ghetto during Second World War) WWII. World War 2
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Access No. 130237 | 10 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about his elder son Victor (Vigele) got sick (from work at the ghetto during Second World War). Photograph Victor reading (1940s). Chatzkel talking about the SS coming and talking children over 12 years old (including Victor).
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Access No. 130238 | 22 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA / Robe Productions | Colour |
Photograph Jewish children wearing stars in classroom at ghetto. WWII. World War 2
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Access No. 130239 | 8 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | Colour |
Photographs Chatzkel Lemchen with his two children, photograph of two sons together .
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Access No. 130240 | 15 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Train rushing past (B&W) , railway tracks , train, railway track (colour)
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Access No. 130241 | 18 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | B&W |
Photograph Victor Lemchen, Chatzkel's elder son who was killed by SS in 1944 during Second World War aged 13. Photograph Azarye Lemchen as child, Chatzkel's youngest child who died in 1944 during Second World War aged 8.
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Access No. 130242 | 8 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about the death of his two children (during Second World War)
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Access No. 130243 | 14 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Two photographs Chatzkel and wife Lena Lemchen together
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Access No. 130244 | 8 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Archival footage artillery fire, view of Kovno, soldier blocks ear against fire, bombing of Kovno, firing, bombing of Kovno bombed building (July 1944) WWII
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Access No. 130245 | 10 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Archival footage steam around train wheels, Nazi soldiers, train wheels WWII
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Access No. 130246 | 6 secs | 1940s | Germany, Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Concentration camp records. WWII
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Access No. 130247 | 4 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Archival footage animated map of journey from Kovno to Stutthof (where Chatzkel Lemchen's wife Lena was sent to a concentration camp) and Dachau (where Chatzkel is sent to a concentration camp) in 1944 superimposed over people at wire gate
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Access No. 130248 | 6 secs | 1940s | Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) saying he and wife Lena's motto was to hold out as long as possible (when separated to be sent to concentration camps)
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Access No. 130249 | 11 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage men in concentration camp wearing striped uniform, man in camp showing emaciated chest, man in camp tying shoe, young man with tin of grain scooping it into mouth with pen knife. WWII
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Access No. 130250 | 8 secs | 1940s | Germany, Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about treatment in concentration camp
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Access No. 130251 | 5 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage concentration camp seen from gun tower (2 shots). American troops who liberate Dachau running next to railway lines (June 1945) WWII
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Access No. 130252 | 9 secs | 1940s | Germany, Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Photographs showing emaciated bodies of prisoners lying in train carriage who died in concentration camps . WWII
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Access No. 130253 | 12 secs | 1940s | Germany, Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about how he felt when liberated from concentration camp at end of Second World War
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Access No. 130254 | 16 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage VS liberated prisoners from concentration camps at end of Second World War, some in striped uniforms, blankets, holding flags, helped by others. WWII
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Access No. 130255 | 18 secs | 1940s | Germany, Europe | © KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau Archive | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about how he still wore prison camp clothes in Munich after being liberated from concentration camp at end of Second World War because that was all he had
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Access No. 130256 | 18 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Russian map of Lithuania track showing route to Vilnius
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Access No. 130257 | 8 secs | 1990s | Lithuania,Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage people walking down street in Vilnius
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Access No. 130258 | 4 secs | 1940s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Red Cross document showing records of Chatzkel Lemchen's wife being alive after war
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Access No. 130259 | 6 secs | 1990s | © NFSA | Colour |
2 Photographs of Chatzkel and with wife Lena Lemchen. Document ÒList of persons in liberated LithuaniaÓ. Photograph Chatzkel and Lena sitting,
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Access No. 130260 | 16 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) saying they knew there would be a ghetto (during Second World War) but didn't expect anyone to be killed. Tree tilt down courtyard.
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Access No. 130261 | 46 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival footage Vilnius street, Vilnius street
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Access No. 130262 | 5 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Street sign for Jews' Street (Zydu)
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Access No. 130263 | 2 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
Archival footage sign in Yiddish.
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Access No. 130264 | 2 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Entrance to courtyard, inside courtyard in old Jewish Quarter
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Access No. 130265 | 4 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Archival footage people in street
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Access No. 130266 | 3 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Black cat on street, view of building below in courtyard, buildings in old Jewish Quarter
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Access No. 130267 | 4 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W Archival footage children on street, couple walk down street
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Access No. 130268 | 9 secs | 1930s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
Brick wall, VS one remaining synagogue in Vilnius after Second World War, tree growing out of wall, zoom out. HAS Interior synagogue, VS man praying with torah. CU face of Catholic priest in synagogue visiting from Poland. WWII. World War 2.
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Access No. 130269 | 56 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage ruined building, woman picks through rubble, child picks flowers beside ruined buildings, people pick up rubble, child picks flowers, people push trolley of rocks. WWII. World War 2
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Access No. 130272 | 19 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Lithuanian Archives of Image & Sound | B&W |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about his life after Second World War, says that he never became a communist
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Access No. 130273 | 5 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photographs Chatzkel Lemchen and wife Lena (1940s). Chatzkel talking about work translating magazine called The Communist from Russian to Lithuanian. Photograph Chatzkel reading (1940s). Pages of dictionary, Chatzkel reading, showing camera his first dictionary.
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Access No. 130274 | 1 min 16 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions / NFSA | B&W |
Photographs Chatzkel and wife Lena Lemchen together, on ship, in garden, at seaside, individually shopping, etc.
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Access No. 130275 | 24 secs | 1950s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | B&W |
Russian - Lithuanian dictionary published in 1955 edited by Chatzkel Lemchen. Chatzkel with dictionaries. CU Russian cultural and academic awards presented to Chatzkel by Communist government for his work. Pages and cover of book on Yiddish philosophy produced by Chatzkel during Soviet period. Dictionary, pages and books produced by Chatzkel. Chatzkel flicking through pages, hand opens book. Chatzkel talking (translation) about problems of translating dictionary of medical terms in to Lithuanian. Photo Chatzkel at desk.
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Access No. 130276 | 2 mins 14 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Exterior Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Vilnius, interior, photograph of Jewish scholar on wall. Rachel Kostanian from Jewish Museum talking about Chatzkel Lemchen, that he embodies Jewish Litvak character. Photograph Chatzkel smiling. Pan along rows of books, Chatzkel looking at books, reading papers, photograph Chatzkel. Judita Rozina, Chatzkel's archivist saying (translation) Chatzkel example of what man could and should be.
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Access No. 130277 | 52 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA / Vina Gaon State Jewish Museum | Colour |
Photographs Chatzkel with wife Lena and children, Chatzkel and children, Lena and Chatzkel, Lena, Lena on deck chair reading, Chatzkel and Lena in park. Judita Rozina, Chatzkel's archivist talking about Chatzkel and Lena. Photographs Lena and Chatzkel together.
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Access No. 130278 | 39 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions - NFSA | B&W |
Archival footage tanks, gunfire, casualties, bodies during overthrow of communism in January 1991. Crowd gathered around Lithuanian flag, women with flowers, funeral procession, line of coffins draped with flags.
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Access No. 130279 | 31 secs | 1990s | Lithuania, Europe | © Robe Productions | Colour |
Children in classroom at Sholom Aleichem School, teacher, child singing Jewish song. VS at market, selling fresh produce, faces. Exterior Chatzkel Lemchen's home. Inscribed photograph, Chatzkel and film maker Rod Freedman looking at family photographs together. Chatzkel and Rod embrace with emotion, Chatzkel says (translation) it is a happiness for him for someone to visit from Australia. Chatzkel and Rod watch video of family celebrating Passover in Australia with Judita Rozina, Chatzkel's archivist.
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Access No. 130280 | 2 mins 28 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Film maker Rod Freedman with Australian relatives Brian and Gene Sherman who have also come from Australia to visit, Exterior Chatzkel Lemchen's house. Family gathered, Chatzkel talks in Yiddish. Freeze fame Rod Brian and Gene down street. Laneway, public building.
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Access No. 130281 | 1 min 8 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Rachel Kostanian from Vilnius Gaon Jewish Museum (translation) talking about Jewish people needing roots. Photographs film maker Rod Freedman's cousins Brian and Gene Sherman on bus, Brian in synagogue with camera, Brian and Chatzkel in synagogue. Board of photographs of Jewish elders, interior synagogue.
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Access No. 130282 | 15 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Sydney harbour with city skyline and Harbour Bridge, beautiful sunset streaked sky. Skyline, sunset sky. Opera House and Rivercat ferry. Letter from Chatzkel Lemchen to film maker Rod Freedman . Rod's daughter Sylvia playing violin next to photograph of Chatzkel whom she has never met. Sylvia writing letter to Chatzkel, Sylvia's drawing of Chatzkel. Later letter received from Chatzkel written for him by another, Chatzkel's signature. Freeze frame Passover dinner.
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Access No. 130283 | 1 min 24 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chatzkel Lemchen, radio, letter from Chatzkel, cups and fruit bowl, table, Chatzkel talking about his life as it should be. Tape recorder on top of papers, envelopes, clock on mantelpiece, Lithuania, newspaper ÒJerusalem of LithuaniaÓ, yarmulke (skull cap) on top of television set, Chatzkel's bedroom, Chatzkel's coat on peg, open book, VS Chatzkel in doorway waving.
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Access No. 130284 | 1 min 38 secs | 1990s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | Colour |
Hand picking up books
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Access No. 130286 | 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Chatzkel Lemchen (translation) talking about member of Gestapo called Rauco saying they didn't need cellists, wanted workers
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Access No. 130301 | 14 secs | 1940s | Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe | © NFSA | B&W |
Drawings Jewish people, drawing Jewish people marched to concentration camp. WWII
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Access No. 130302 | 6 secs | 1940s | Lithuania, Europe | © Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum | B&W |
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