War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

Identifier
irn1004538
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.479.1
  • RG-60.1269
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl. 03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematorium in pit enclosed by high stone wall. Charred bones of cremated victims of the camp. MS, horse-drawn carriage carrying caskets past concentration camp buildings. (See also RG-60.2012) 03:02:07 (LIB 6490) American and British military officers walking past concentration camp survivors. Camp and buildings in BG. Medical unit tent. Medic and military officer around fire preparing meals. Small ovens. INTs, medical tent. 03:03:16 (LIB 6462) Concentration camp. Barracks. Survivor crying. CU, emaciated body of camp victims. Pit of bodies in a forest. VAR CUs of corpses. Germans digging graves. Latrine. Improvised tent shelter of camp survivor, she sits on a bench and eats. Group of male survivors. 03:04:04 (LIB 6433) May 5, 1945. Group of liberated women from Lenzing concentration camp. More good shots of the women. Tattooed concentration camp numbers on arms of women. Women talking with a man and U.S. soldier with a pipe. (See USHMM Photo Archives for more images of Lenzing). 03:04:35 (LIB 6726) LS, pan of hospital in Linz, Austria. CU sign: "121st Evacuation Hospital S.M." The 121st Evacuation Hospital was responsible for the medical treatment of former inmates at Flossenbuerg, Mauthausen, and its sub-camps. Smoke rises from fire outside building. Group of captured German soldiers carrying cartons from building. Smoke from burning mattress and discarded (infested) clothing. Men (survivors) sitting outdoors with bundled belongings. Crippled survivor walking. Another survivor looks directly into the camera. U.S. hospital tent. Survivors lying on stretchers. INTs, emaciated camp survivors with blankets on shoulders. American medic unloading blankets and mattresses from truck. 03:06:10 (LIB 6596) Germans digging graves, coffins in FG, crowd of civilians watch. U.S. soldiers hold back the crowd. An angered civilian yells at one German digging. Laying flowers on coffins. U.S. soldier forces a man to jump into a pit to dig further. Women lay flowers on coffins. Burial services for concentration camp dead. CUs, crowd watching, including children and a soldier holding a camera. Lowering coffins and filling grave.

Note(s)

  • See also Story 2012, Film ID 839 for duplicate scenes of the liberation of Flossenbuerg.

  • Lenzing, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, was established in the fall of 1944 near the town of Vocklabruck, Austria, to provide workers for a local paper factory. It held approximately 500 forced laborers, all women. In January 1945 almost 100 female prisoners arrived at Lenzing from the recently evacuated Auschwitz concentration camp. On May 5, 1945 troops of the 80th Infantry division, accompanied by photographers from Combat Unit 123, liberated the camp. American medical units arrived on May 9, 1945 and established the 121st Evacuation Hospital to give care to the sick among the 4000 former inmates of a sub-camp of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria. Thanks to their efforts, the death rate dropped from 120 to 25 a week.

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