Internment Camps in France

Identifier
irn1000602
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.176.1
  • RG-60.0821
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Sherman Grinberg Film Library

Scope and Content

General views of men working in unidentified internment camp, tracking shot of men hoeing. Wounded men pose. Infirmary with wounded men (matches photo from Récébédou). Women moving into barracks (probably Rivesaltes). Women sewing and washing. CUs of faces. Mail distribution. Children peeling potatoes. Elderly men at camp, CUs. Elderly couples walking (maybe Rivesaltes). Eating in large dining room. Arriving in buses (matches photo from Rivesaltes).

Note(s)

  • 00:01:10-00:04:19

  • 3/4 inch and Betacam SP copies include burn-in time codes beginning with 01: This footage was used in a Paramount Newsreel. The scenes are longer in the Paramount newsreel. The footage was also used in a Movietone Newsreel (see Story 521, Film ID 234). The Movietone Newsreel was produced in April 1941.

Subjects

  • PRISONERS
  • BUSES
  • EATING
  • HOSPITALS
  • WOMEN
  • RIVESALTES
  • SHOVELS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • NURSES
  • SOUP
  • SEWING
  • JEWS
  • WOUNDED
  • FRANCE
  • CHILDREN
  • DOCUMENTS
  • FOOD
  • BARRACKS
  • FORCED LABOR

Places

  • Vichy, France
  • , France
  • Rivesaltes, France

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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