Liberation of Bessarabia, North Bukovina, June 1940

Identifier
irn1002664
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.355.1
  • RG-60.3111
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine

Scope and Content

People welcoming troops. Zhukov and military parade: main street. People demonstrate with banners, fists in the air. Timoshenko and Khruschev, with peasants, locals, Romanian POWs. VS of shackles, soldiers and POWs holding implements of bondage, torture. There are joyful scenes of reunion- men and women kissing and hugging each other, etc. Scenes are from several areas in Ukraine and Moldova, as well as Bessarabian villages.

Subjects

  • TORTURE
  • TANKS
  • FLOWERS
  • BANNERS
  • LIBERATION
  • WOMEN
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • STREETS
  • BUILDINGS
  • TOWNS
  • TRUCKS
  • PEASANTS
  • PRISONERS
  • CROWDS
  • CHILDREN
  • PARADES
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
  • UKRAINE
  • POWS
  • ROMANIA
  • SOVIET UNION
  • JEEPS

Places

  • , Moldova
  • , Romania
  • , Ukraine
  • , Northern Bukovina
  • , Bessarabia

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.