GUN PARK NEAR HAMBURG [Allocated Title] CONCENTRATION CAMP BELSEN, THE KINDERGARTEN [Allocated Title] BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, THE CONCERT PARTY [Allocated Tiitle]
Title:GUN PARK NEAR HAMBURG [Allocated Title] CONCENTRATION CAMP BELSEN, THE KINDERGARTEN [Allocated Title] BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, THE CONCERT PARTY [Allocated Tiitle]
Film Number:A70 358
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:The 86th Anti-Tank Regiment at a gun park in Wenzendorf, near Hamburg. Children under 12 years old in a classroom in Bergen-Belsen. Two of the adults working in the makeshift school are Irene Mandel, a Czech teacher, and Miss S J Reekie, a British Red Cross worker. Scenes of the concert party organised by the 11th Light Field Ambulance at the Displaced Persons Camp at Bergen-Belsen. The performers include three well-known Jewish female singers and musicians.
Description:A70 358/1 Various shots of guns arriving and being examined and cleaned. A line of 25 pounder guns. 5.5 inch guns being parked.
A70 358/2 The bus arrives at the kindergarten, having collected the children from their various huts. The younger children are helped off the bus by Miss Reekie and an older Polish youth. Close up of 'Kindergarten' notice on the door. Children drawing letters in the air and in their books. Irene Mandel helps a young Jewish orphan to draw letters. A young girl sprawls over her book. A young Polish Romany boy, Toni, practises with a pencil. A young girl hands around the morning biscuits to her classmates at breaktime. A view of the class having a lesson. Close ups of the children drinking their morning milk. In the Junior section, Miss Reekie hands round the sweets. Young Toni takes more than his share and is gently persuaded to return some of them.
A70 358/3 The concert party clusters around the piano in the German theatre of the Panzer school, discussing the programme for the next show in various languages. The 'Hokey Kokey girls' are ushered off by a Lance Corporal. The three women run through their routine. Eva Stojorska (Ewa Stojowska), a Polish actress and producer practises a Russian peasant dance. The Romanian singer Eva Steiner sits at the piano and sings a French song 'And the Music Played'. Eva Steiner and her partner singing a joint number. Lily Mathé, the Hungarian Gypsy violinist, plays the violin.
Scenes of the concert. The band of the 11th Light Field Ambulance plays the final bars of its signature tune 'Change Partners and Dance with Me'. The compère announces the next act, the Russian children's choir. The children sing a Russian folk song. Various shots of the audience during the concert, showing British soldiers and officers and women, children and men of various nationalities.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
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Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 358
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Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (A70 358)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-06-08-1945-06-09
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Wilcox, John (Production individual)
Wilson, Martyn (Production individual)
Hewitt, Charles Harry (Production individual)
War Office Film Unit (Production company)
