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Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.352.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3249 | Film ID: 2534

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    Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film
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    Description
    Excerpts of "Oswiecem" film showing Auschwitz after liberation filmed by the Soviet military. Film clips including: Men and women behind barbed wire, winter, snow, view from the air of concentration camp barracks, electrified fence, interior of the women's area, corpses in front of buildings with a woman and child walking near them, children's concentration camp, children behind barbed wires showing the numbers [tattooed] on their arms, emaciated corpses, crematoria where they were burned, canisters of poison gas, Soviet soldiers in front of open mass graves, piles of cut hair, dentures, gold, eyeglasses.
    Film Title
    Koncentraky 1945
    Duration
    00:05:44
    Date
    Event:  1945 January
    Locale
    Auschwitz, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Slovensky Filmovy Ustav

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Poor
    Time Code
    00:02:59:00 to 00:08:43:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2534 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Slovensky Filmovy Ustav
    Conditions on Use
    Contact Slovenský filmový ústav at sfu@sfu.sk for licensing and permission to reproduce and use this footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased copies of these films from the Slovak Film Archives [Slovensky Filmovy Ustav] in Bratislava, Slovakia in December 2001.
    Note
    See Story 37, Film ID 6 and Story 536, Film ID 213 for duplicate footage. See also Story 2769, Film ID 167 for duplicate footage of the entire film -- "Oswiecem" ["Auschwitz"] -- in English. See also Story 26, Film ID 5.

    The Soviet film on atrocities - Film Documents of the Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR (Kinodokumenty O Zverstvakh Nemetsko-Fashiskikh Zakhvatchikov) - with scenes of Auschwitz was presented as evidence on February 19, 1946 (Day 62 of the trial) under Document USSR-81.
    Copied From
    (164m) b/w
    Film Source
    Slovensky Filmovy Ustav
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 3322
    Source Archive Number: KO 179-1945
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:00:25
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