Survivors at Lansdorf POW camp

Identifier
irn1004103
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.474.1
  • RG-60.4599
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

A sign in German points the way to the Russian section of the Lansdorf POW camp in Silesia. The prisoners were forced laborers in Germany. Shots of the barbed wire fences surrounding the camp. Russian soldiers remove survivors on stretchers from a barrack. Close-up on one of the emaciated men. Camp survivors, some of them wounded, file slowly past the camera toward the infirmary where nurses wait for them.

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  • This is an excerpt. The total length of this film is approximately 252 meters.

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