Home movies, donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, captured images of a man’s doomed neighbors in Poland
It was 1936 in this small community near Lviv in what was then Poland, now Ukraine. Most of the people who lived there were Jewish. Grocers, farmers, peddlers, bakers.
The museum has been preserving Holocaust-era films for years, but this is the first time it has specifically asked for home movies, said Leslie Swift, special adviser for time-based media at the museum. Footage from that era is a relative rarity, she added, especially from that part of Eastern Europe. It was preserved only because Harry Roher brought it home with him and it was kept by his family.She said she hopes some people in the film may be recognized and identified.
In the United States, he became a successful dress designer and manufacturer, she said. He and his wife, Yetta, had four children and lived in a brick house in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was in his mid-40s when he went back to Mikolajow. a synagogue, thatched roof buildings and farm wagons in the background. Men in the fields pause with their farm tools.“It’s like everyone got dressed up to be in the movie,” Melanie Roher said.
And in another scene, a group of boys is assembled. Several look ragged, and the camera pans over their bare feet. The German army reached the area around Lviv in summer 1941, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler’s Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union during World War II, according to the Holocaust museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos.
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