Landsberg DP camp; UNRRA activities

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations. He enlisted the help of Yehuda Zupowitz, a high-ranking officer in the ghetto's Jewish police to help hide his negatives and prints. Kadish retrieved the collection of photographic negatives upon his return to the destroyed ghetto. After Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Kadish left Lithuania with his extrordinary documentary trove for Germany. There in the American Zone, he mounted exhibitions of his photographs for survivors residing in displaced persons camps. He also filmed and photographed life in the displaced persons camps in Germany. At Landsberg DP camp, men speaking at a table, passing out certificates to children, returning papers to UNRRA officer. CU, sign in Hebrew for religious school. Children exiting school with backpacks. Man speaking. CU, ORT diploma with name: "BLUM, SARA". Children with diplomas/certificates. Official speaking into a megaphone. Man toilet training a baby. Scouts pose next to sign in Hebrew. Quick view of banner "Wir ehren die Opfer des barbarischen Nationalsozialist." Brief, fuzzy sequence with children dressed in Hebrew scout uniforms and UNRRA or JDC official speaking to another, with Jewish man in BG and sign in Hebrew. Cut to crowd (better quality), some men very religious.