Mass burial of murdered Jews; exhumation of slave laborers
Creator(s)
- Raia Weisman (Camera Operator)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
German Killing of Jewish Slave Labor, Neuenberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: German civilians are assembled and marched to graves of murdered Jews. Seq: German men and women in teams of four carry decomposed bodies in open pine boxes from woods through town streets to cemetery. VS, townspeople as they walk past open coffins. CUs, facial expressions of townspeople. LS, bodies awaiting burial as civilians walk past. LS, pan, 200 bodies of murdered Jews lying in woods. CUs, German civilians digging up bodies. Exhumation of 1500 Russian Slave Laborers, Essen, Germany, April 28, 1945. VS, 17th Div soldiers examine exhumed bodies of Russian slave laborers. VS, German civilians digging up bodies from a common grave.
Note(s)
USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
Subjects
- FORCED LABOR
- GERMANS
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- FORESTS
- EXHUMATIONS
- CORPSES
- CIVILIANS
- GRAVES
- JEWS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- PRISONERS (JEWISH)
Places
- Essen, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film