Burning the barracks at Belsen

Identifier
irn1003835
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.4371
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • The Honorable Hadassah Rosensaft

Scope and Content

Huts/barracks burned by "flame throwing" from military tank (to prevent the spread of typhus). Conflagration. Building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke. Soldiers. Panoramic shots of smoke and burning camp.

Note(s)

  • There is some similar footage in Story 65, Film ID 10 from the Imperial War Museum (Source# A700/337/1-2). See also Story 2655, Film ID 165 for another video transfer of this film, created in 1987. Original MARS accession number: 145x-12

Subjects

  • BERGEN-BELSEN
  • DESTRUCTION
  • SMOKE
  • LIBERATION
  • TYPHUS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
  • TORCHES
  • MILITARY VEHICLES
  • BARRACKS
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • GERMANY
  • FIRES

Places

  • Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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