Der Westerborkfilm
The images from the so-called ‘Westerbork film’ have become part of the collective visual memory of the Holocaust – including the face of the Sinti girl Settela Steinbach on the deportation train to Auschwitz. This film was shot in the spring of 1944 in the Westerbork transit camp in the occupied Ne...
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Edition Text + Kritik
2025
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| Sumari: | The images from the so-called ‘Westerbork film’ have become part of the collective visual memory of the Holocaust – including the face of the Sinti girl Settela Steinbach on the deportation train to Auschwitz. This film was shot in the spring of 1944 in the Westerbork transit camp in the occupied Netherlands on behalf of the SS. The dispatching of a train that deported almost 1,000 people to Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz was also recorded. In 1956, Alain Resnais used shots of these scenes in his film NUIT ET BROUILLARD. This is where the visual journey of the Westerbork film begins, which soon became an integral part of a newly emerging empathetic Holocaust memory and is now one of its iconic images. Fabian Schmidt's book tells the story of its reception on the basis of empirically collected film data, starting with the war crimes trials, its use in the compilation films of the 1960s and the rediscovery of the material as a document in the 1990s , to its inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2017. In dialogue with this migration and transformation of the Westerbork film, its significance for the formation of the culture of remembrance is reconstructed on the basis of newspaper reviews and documentary films. |
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