Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film

Identifier
irn1001389
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.352.1
  • RG-60.3249
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
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EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Excerpts of "Oswiecem" film showing Auschwitz after liberation filmed by the Soviet military. Film clips including: Men and women behind barbed wire, winter, snow, view from the air of concentration camp barracks, electrified fence, interior of the women's area, corpses in front of buildings with a woman and child walking near them, children's concentration camp, children behind barbed wires showing the numbers [tattooed] on their arms, emaciated corpses, crematoria where they were burned, canisters of poison gas, Soviet soldiers in front of open mass graves, piles of cut hair, dentures, gold, eyeglasses.

Note(s)

  • See Story 37, Film ID 6 and Story 536, Film ID 213 for duplicate footage. See also Story 2769, Film ID 167 for duplicate footage of the entire film -- "Oswiecem" ["Auschwitz"] -- in English. See also Story 26, Film ID 5. The Soviet film on atrocities - Film Documents of the Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR (Kinodokumenty O Zverstvakh Nemetsko-Fashiskikh Zakhvatchikov) - with scenes of Auschwitz was presented as evidence on February 19, 1946 (Day 62 of the trial) under Document USSR-81.

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