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Contains photograph of Josef and Kaja Geldmann, with their daughter Birthe, eating Christmas dinner with the Johanson family of Landskrona, Sweden. The Geldmanns, a Jewish family, escaped by boat from Denmark to Sweden in October 1943. The photograph was taken on December 24, 1944.

Lis (donor's mother and eldest of the three girls) in a sweater and swim cap at the beach with her father, Bernhard Schermeister.

The donor's grandfather, Bernhard Schermeister, in a false beard and dark glasses, clowns around with his wife, Edith, in the yard of their vacation home in Snekkersten. He presents her with various gifts, including a bouquet of flowers and dolls, while she feigns disinterest.

Havdalah ceremony in the garden in Snekkersten (despite the fact that it is still daylight at night in the summer in Denmark). Present are: Edith and Bernhard Schermeister (donor's grandparents), Edith's mother, father, and sister, Edith and Bernhard's three daughters (Lis, the oldest girl, is the donor's mother), and Bernhard's mother, Hana Schermeister. Edith lights the candle and Bernhard pours ...

Very dark interior shots followed by a brief scene at the beach at Snekkersten and then street scenes in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. "Spredte Traeck fra Fam. Schermeisters. Tilvaereise." [Small Notes from the Schermeister Family. Life.] The street scenes show quick cuts of alleys, people in the street on bicycles, shops, a newspaper headline announcing Von Papen as vice chancellor, and the exterior ...

Lis (the donor's mother, age 6) and her sister Jeanne (age 5) take off their shoes and wade in the water at the beach. Their parents (Bernhard and Edith Cohen Schermeister) are also in the scene. Nice CUs of the two girls.

The films show Lis Kischinovsky (nee Schermeister, b. August 11, 1922) and her family in Denmark during the 1920s and 1930s. On the morning of Rosh Hashana in October 1943, the Schermeister family was warned of the impending round-up. Lis and her boyfriend left Copenhagen for Snekkersten, where the family had spent many vacations. They were then smuggled to Sweden by a fisherman and landed at Landskrona, ...