Jews and other refugees moving into the USSR

Identifier
irn1004104
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.474.1
  • RG-60.4600
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)

Scope and Content

Shot of a Soviet border guard on a bridge at the border between the Soviet Union and Romania after the Soviet Union seized northern Bukovina in 1940. Long shot of a mass of refugees waiting to cross the border into the Soviet Union. Refugees, including Jews, move across a bridge from Romania to what is now the Soviet Union. Close-up on a Jewish family as they show their papers to a guard before they cross the bridge. The guard smiles and shakes hands with the couple. Shot of refugees running across the bridge.

Subjects

  • REFUGEES (JEWISH)
  • REFUGEES
  • BORDERS/CROSSINGS
  • PASSPORTS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
  • JEWS
  • SOVIET UNION
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY

Places

  • , Bukovina
  • , Soviet Union
  • , Romania

Genre

  • Documentary.
  • Film
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