Overview
- Description
- "Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train.
"Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs, of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning of a new life in liberty". - Film Title
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Going Home
- Duration
- 00:09:54
- Date
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Event:
1945 June 05
- Locale
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Buchenwald,
Germany
Weimar, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Garrell
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:10:01:00 to 02:19:55:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 828 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- Duplicate footage on Film ID 900, Story 917.
Additional footage of children "going home" available on 111 ADC 4812, dated June 19, 1945. [Children orphaned in Buchenwald concentration camp separated into small groups by UNRRA workers and taken with their belongings to the train to Switzerland.] See Story 919, Film ID 900 and Story 312, Film ID 676 for this footage. - Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1357
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4747 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:01
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