CLICK TO SEE WHEN ULTRA-ORTHODOX WAS NORMAL:
https://youtu.be/KpBhg209Do8
IMAGINE: AN AMERICAN AND ISRAELI FLAG FLYING TOGETHER PROMINENTLY AT THE ENTRANCE OF CAMP MESIFTA TORAH VODAATH IN 1948!
CLICK: https://youtu.be/QqJP8i1IC7A
MORE OF NORMAL:
https://youtu.be/bVFva84EB3U
This footage is seeing the light of day after nearly 80 years.
The original 8mm film was shot primarily by my grandfather Harry Haber. He was born in Pomorzany, Galicia, Austria on May 7, 1895, and immigrated to U.S. arriving in New York on February 1, 1910 aboard the S.S. Amerika.
The ship manifest lists his last place of residence as Kadworna, Austria. His arrival in the U.S. was two years after his father's immigration to the U.S., and proceeded by one year his mother's and 5 siblings' immigration. (His parents had four more children once in the U.S.)
The film was stored in a box with other slides and family photos. Originally stored in Washington D.C. and Maryland until approximately 2000, at which time the box was stored in a garage in Florida until it was discovered in late 2020.
Once digitized by DigMyPics.com.
I was only able to identify my father, David Haber in the film. Only moments after posting a shorter version of the film to Facebook (to the group "Tracing the Tribe - Jewish Genealogy") I received a a message which led to a conversation with a gentleman who identified the location as Camp Mesivta in Upstate New York.
This was the summer camp for boys of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn, NY.
The rabbi walking towards the camera on the path with other people at 4:14 in the video has been identified as Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Kaplan. The rabbi with the red-ish beard at 4:30 is Rabbi Shlomo Heiman.
