Exhumation of corpses at a mental hospital in Vinnitsa

Identifier
irn1004094
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.474.1
  • RG-60.4590
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
  • Tsytron (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

Exterior shots of a mental hospital in Vinnitsa, Ukraine where a Soviet team conducts an investigation into killings at the institution. A man points out the location of mass graves where the executed patients were buried. Two men carry a corpse on a stretcher to a table, where a woman in a white coat prepares to examine it.

Note(s)

  • This is an excerpt. The total length of this film is approximately 137 meters.

Subjects

  • INSPECTION/INVESTIGATION
  • HOSPITALS
  • EXHUMATIONS
  • MENTALLY ILL
  • CORPSES
  • WOMEN
  • ATROCITIES
  • MASS GRAVES
  • DOCTORS

Places

  • Vinnitsa, Ukraine
  • , Soviet Union

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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