Belsen Concentration Camp on the 9th day after liberation
Creator(s)
- William Lawrie (Camera Operator)
- Imperial War Museums
Scope and Content
Little girl and other female inmates look beyond barbed wire at a lorry and a trailer filled with dead. In the trailer there are two SS prisoners, including Dr. Klein. MS of little girl watching female bodies being dragged/buried (on other side of barbed wire). Cut to waiting trucks with bodies and diggers. MLS across open grave where British guards and Burgermeisters stand around pit. MS local dignitaries listening to address next to grave. MSs of women of SS administration - Charlotte Klein, Gertrude Feist, Herta Enlert, etc.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- BERGEN-BELSEN
- MASS GRAVES
- CIVILIANS
- BURIALS
- SURVIVORS
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- TRUCKS
- GRAVES
- BARBED WIRE
- CORPSES
- WOMEN
Places
- Belsen, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film