Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film
Creator(s)
- Slovensky Filmovy Ustav
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.
Subjects
- SURVIVORS
- GAS CHAMBERS
- AUSCHWITZ
- SNOW
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- WINTER
- BARRACKS
- GRAVES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
- LIBERATION
- HUMAN HAIR
- ATROCITIES
- ZYKLON B
- WOMEN
- BARBED WIRE
- COFFINS
- EYEGLASSES
- CORPSES
- BUNKS
- PRISONERS
- FENCES
- MASS GRAVES
- TATTOOS
- CHILDREN
- VICTIMS' PROPERTY
- CREMATORIA
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
Places
- Auschwitz, Poland
Genre
- Film
- Documentary.