Women internees leave Belsen
Creator(s)
- H. Hewitt (Camera Operator)
- Imperial War Museums
Scope and Content
Street sign surrounded by lilacs: "Belsen: Kreis Celle Reg. Rez. Lueneburg." Bathing internees. Big crowd of survivor women queued up by table, signing forms and receiving new identity cards. Helped by Parisian woman who takes their names and other information. British "squaddies" wave and help women board truck. Waving from back of truck as it drives by. Camera pans from one communal grave to the next, all ten marked by posts: Grave No. 1 Approx. 1,000, 22nd April 1945; Grave No. 2 Approx. 5,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 3 Approx. 5,000, 24th April 1945; Grave No. 4 Approx. 2,000, 27th April 1945; Grave No. 5 Approx. 1,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 6 Approx. 800, 26th April 1945; Grave No. 8 Approx. 1,000, 30 April 1945; Grave No. 7 Approx. 800, ? April 1945. Pan across, cut to flat ground behind simple signs. Grave No. 9 No. Unknown, April 1945. Grave No. 10 No. Unknown, April 1945. Fast pan across deserted southern end of camp, barracks, watchtower. Cut to LS from above, British boarding tractor, that proceeds to bulldoze barbed wire and some striped uniforms, etc. Clothing/tents littered all around ground.
Subjects
- BERGEN-BELSEN
- SURVIVORS
- LIBERATION
- WOMEN
- GERMANY
- CLOTHES
- UNIFORMS
- TRUCKS
- SPRING
- BARBED WIRE
- FLOWERS
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- WATCH TOWERS
- BARRACKS
- FLAGS (BRITISH)
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- GRAVES
- LUGGAGE
- CROWDS
- MASS GRAVES
- BULLDOZERS
- FENCES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- SHOWERS
Places
- Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film