Deportation of Bessarabian Jews to Transnistria
Creator(s)
- Deutsche Wochenschau (Producer)
- George R. Wheeler
Scope and Content
Low aerial shots from an airplane show the destroyed city of Balti. Pan across dead bodies, with the narration that the KPU (communists) and their "Jewish helpers" had perpetrated the murders. The next shot shows the forced march of Bessarabian Jews in the area of Balti, Romania, part of the deportations to Transnistria, late fall, 1941. The narration describes how these "eastern Jewish types" overran Europe after World War I and attempted to destroy the culture of the non-Jews. Long line of impoverished people moving along a country road and over a low wooden bridge. Some are barefoot. Most carry bundles. They are guarded by a few Romanian soldiers. Pan of a seemingly endless line of people stretching back to the horizon.
Note(s)
Original film canisters located in Museum offsite storage. Donor of the collection had no information as to the copyright status. The numbers found in the "Source Archive #" field of the USHMM database are the original German newsreel numbers and production dates, as found in Bucher, Peter. "Wochenschauen und Dokumentarfilme 1895-1950 im Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv" Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, 1984. See Story 246, Film ID 200 and Story 277, Film ID 201 for duplicate footage.
Subjects
- DEPORTATIONS
- COLLABORATORS (ROMANIAN)
- FRENTZ, WALTER
- JEWS
- ROMANIA
- CORPSES
- MARCHING
- DESTRUCTION
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ROMANIAN)
- ATROCITIES
- AIRPLANES
Places
- Balti, Romania
- , Bessarabia
Genre
- Newsreels.
- Film