Survivors at Majdanek

Identifier
irn1002638
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.355.1
  • RG-60.3149
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Ukrainian
Source
EHRI Partner

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[The title is misleading - there is actually no trial footage in this story.] VS, CU, malnourished baby in diaper, CU, needle and syringe and hand, person is wearing a white lab coat. CUs of survivors, lying emaciated on the ground and in wooden beds. INT, still of room where bodies were decapitated. MCU, bushel of heads in a wooden fruit basket, resting next to a line of decapitated corpses in a wooden rack. Various CUs of the heads. Montage of familiar camp images: ovens, piles of metal, hair, and shoes. Translation of Ukrainian narration: A giant death industry was being created. More than three thousand enterprises were working on its production line. Starting with the smaller ones, where people were killed by a shot in the neck, and up to the great industrial death complexes, where execution was done mechanically, with chemicals and electricity, using the latest of science and technology. ...[abrupt] producing soap from the killed, but they didn't have time to finish it.

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