Overview
- Description
- The Soviet regular army meets up with Jewish or Roma partisans (they are not identified as such in the narration). One of the partisans wears a bullet clip around his shoulders. A female partisan, wearing a patterned head scarf, smiles at the camera. Scenes from the liberation of Minsk on July 3, 1944. A sign in German reads, "End of the Autobahn Minsk." A cameraman films the activity. Shot of the ghetto burning. A Soviet tank rolls down the street. German POWs with their hands raised in surrender. Soldiers greet smiling townspeople. A swastika falls off a building. A Soviet soldier cuts a German flag down from a building and replaces it with a Soviet flag. Cheering townspeople with added sound.
- Duration
- 00:01:15
- Date
-
Event:
1944 July
- Locale
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Minsk,
Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Russian Archives of Documentary Films and Photographs
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:35:05:00 to 01:36:20:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL- Preservation
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 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
- Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
- Conditions on Use
- Contact the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk at filmarchives@aha.ru for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased a copy of this footage from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) in Krasnogorsk, Russia in August 2006.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4957
Source Archive Number: 5520 R. 6 - Special Collection
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- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:36
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