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Children must laugh / National Center for Jewish Film presents ; produced by the Medem Sanitarium ; directed by Aleksander Ford.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives VHS DS134.64 .C45 2000z
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Medem-sanaṭorye (Miedzeszyn, Warsaw, Poland).
- Jewish children--Institutional care.
- Jewish children.
- Children--Hospitals.
- Sanatoriums.
- Poland--Warsaw.
- Sanatoriums--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish children--Poland--Warsaw.
- Children--Hospitals--Poland--Warsaw.
- Children.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Poland.
- History.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--Poland--Warsaw.
- Miedzeszyn (Warsaw, Poland).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (63 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on container and label: Mir ḳumen on
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]
- Language Note:
- English and Yiddish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- One of the few surviving documentaries depicting pre-war Jewish life in Poland and life at the Jewish Labor Bund's Medem Sanatorium, a model residential children's institution. The Medem Sanatorium, which existed from 1926 through 1942, stood as a symbol of health and enlightenment.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Stanislaw Lipinski.
- Notes:
- Originally released in 1938.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Tape V0116.
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