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Children must laugh.

Title
Children must laugh.
Publication
Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Ford, Aleksander.
  • Lipiński, Stanisław.
  • Ogólny Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce.
  • Medem-sanaṭorye (Miedzeszyn, Warsaw, Poland)
  • National Center for Jewish Film.
Description
1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 cm
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.
Subject
  • Medem-sanaṭorye (Miedzeszyn, Warsaw, Poland)
  • Sanatoriums > Warsaw
  • Jewish children > Warsaw
  • Children > Hospitals > Warsaw
  • Jews > Poland > History > 20th century
  • Jewish children > Institutional care > Warsaw
  • Documentary films
  • Motion pictures, Polish
  • Miedzeszyn (Warsaw, Poland)
Note
  • English and Yiddish with English subtitles.
  • Originally released in 1938.
  • On container: Mir ḳumen on [romanized]
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Medem Sanatorium ; director, Aleksander Ford for the Jewish Labor Bund ; cinematography, Stanislaw Lipinski.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
OCLC
  • ocm30264961
  • SCSB-4017836
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries