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Mass funeral service, Neuenberg; UNWCC visit to Buchenwald

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0851 | Film ID: 830

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    Mass funeral service, Neuenberg; UNWCC visit to Buchenwald

    Overview

    Description
    (LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets.

    (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 26, 1945. Seq: United Nations War Crimes Commission officers visit camp site. Group tours camp. Included in those photographed are Mr. Oldham, Australia; Mr. Stavropoulos, Greece; Wing Commander Hopkins, Canada; Lt Col Hodgson, US; Commander J. Latta and Lt Prowse (of Adam Stark's staff). CUs, wooden tiers used as berths for the sick of the camp. Officials examine ovens used for cremation of victims. CU, pile of dead bodies of victims. CU, ovens in which bodies were burned. ECU, opened oven door, inside are bones. MLS, monument commemorating the 51,000 Jews who died in the camp. Young civilian women carrying coffins in town. LS crowds in front of small white "mansion". LS, alongside "driveway" of building, more than 100 coffins (with corpses) laid out. MS, women and men adding a coffin. LS, cemetery viewed through scene of crowd, focus on a soldier in the crowd, sequence of shots of crowd. CU and LS, priest at podium. Former inmate speaking at podium(?). CU on two inmates carrying coffins (Bodies do not fit properly in coffins). Civilian men carrying coffins through streets, pause, lay coffins on the street. Marching through countryside-civilian boys(?). MS to MLS, continue march with coffins.
    Duration
    00:10:55
    Date
    Event:  April 26-29, 1945
    Locale
    Buchenwald, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    04:11:50:00 to 04:22:45:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 830 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
    Note
    USHMM replaced the digital video file created from videotape in 2013 with a new 2K scan from 35mm in February 2020. The scans were made by NARA's Motion Picture Preservation laboratory as part of the Horizon 20/20 project: "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" - https://www.vhh-project.eu/en/.
    Copied From
    35mm print
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 9
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 2490
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:06:09
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