ALBUMY FELIKSA MATUSZELAŃSKIEGO PAMIĄTKA OSOBISTA — DOKUMENTACJA FILMÓW — UPAMIĘTNIENIE MARII HIRSZBEIN
FELIKS MATUSZELAŃSKI’S ALBUMS: PERSONAL COLLECTION — DOCUMENTATION OF MOVIES — COMMEMORATION OF MARIA HIRSZBEIN

Summary/Abstract: In the collection of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN is an album that contains variouspaper documents, such as programmes, leaflets on several pre-war films, as well as photographs ofthe films and their sets. There are also cards with commemorative writings (stammbuch) sewn into the initial section. These are mainly materials from the production of the Warsaw-based Leo-Filmstudio, headed since 1926 by Maria Hirszbein, one of the most important institutions of its kind inpre-war Poland. The author of this article describes this unusual artefact, trying to show its multi-lay-ered nature. Matuszelański’s album, originally intended as a reflection of his own professional wayand an album of memorabilia, and evolving over the years into an archive showing the activities ofthe Leo-Film studio — in its present form it is an album in memory of Maria Hirszbein, who wasperished in the Holocaust.

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