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Abstract / Summary

"Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Russian auspices with narration in Russian. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, old women in rows of bunks. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups behind wires, worn faces, dead in the street, men with blankets over their heads. The evacuation of the camp: prisoners are helped and carried out; crowds march out (many wearing striped uniforms); horses and wagons carry the sick; children are led out by nuns and others, including child survivor Tomy Shacham wearing a uniform with extra-long arms and Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam leading the group.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Corporate Author

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Content Type

Documentary

Format

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URL

http://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=1576

Publication Year

1945

Subject

Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Holocaust (1933-1945), Internment camps, History, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Auschwitz, Silesian Voivodeship, Yushitz, Ukraine, Oswiecim, Silesian Voivodeship, Oświęcim, Silesian Voivodeship

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Auschwitz, Silesian Voivodeship, Yushitz, Ukraine, Oswiecim, Silesian Voivodeship