Liberation scenes

Identifier
irn1001929
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1989.343.1
  • RG-60.0103
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945. 05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters. 05:19:06 Majdanek. 05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier. 05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave. 05:21:29 Auschwitz: Inmates/survivors line up before fence.

Note(s)

  • Original film can label reads "Chronos / Israel-Dokumente / Akt 2".

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