Overview
- 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.
- Copyright Holder
- Slovensky Filmovy Ustav
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ATROCITIES AUSCHWITZ BARBED WIRE BARRACKS BUNKS CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) COFFINS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES CREMATORIA EYEGLASSES FENCES GAS CHAMBERS GRAVES HUMAN HAIR LIBERATION MASS GRAVES PRISONERS SNOW SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) SURVIVORS TATTOOS VICTIMS' PROPERTY WINTER WOMEN ZYKLON B
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:25
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