Overview
- Description
- Street sign surrounded by lilacs: "Belsen: Kreis Celle Reg. Rez. Lueneburg." Bathing internees. Big crowd of survivor women queued up by table, signing forms and receiving new identity cards. Helped by Parisian woman who takes their names and other information. British "squaddies" wave and help women board truck. Waving from back of truck as it drives by. Camera pans from one communal grave to the next, all ten marked by posts: Grave No. 1 Approx. 1,000, 22nd April 1945; Grave No. 2 Approx. 5,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 3 Approx. 5,000, 24th April 1945; Grave No. 4 Approx. 2,000, 27th April 1945; Grave No. 5 Approx. 1,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 6 Approx. 800, 26th April 1945; Grave No. 8 Approx. 1,000, 30 April 1945; Grave No. 7 Approx. 800, ? April 1945. Pan across, cut to flat ground behind simple signs. Grave No. 9 No. Unknown, April 1945. Grave No. 10 No. Unknown, April 1945. Fast pan across deserted southern end of camp, barracks, watchtower. Cut to LS from above, British boarding tractor, that proceeds to bulldoze barbed wire and some striped uniforms, etc. Clothing/tents littered all around ground.
- Duration
- 00:02:50
- Date
-
Event:
1945 April 24
- Locale
-
Bergen-Belsen,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
- Contributor
-
Camera Operator:
H. Hewitt
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 17:10:03:00 to 17:12:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 10 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 10 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 10 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Imperial War Museums
- Conditions on Use
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- Copyright Holder
- Imperial War Museums
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film segments about the liberation of Belsen from the Imperial War Museum in London in March 1991.
- Copied From
- 35mm positive b/w
- Film Source
- Imperial War Museums
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 204
Source Archive Number: A700/327/3+5 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:36
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