Arnoldsweiler Concentration Camp

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.256.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0126 | Film ID: 153

Overview

Description: Gate of Anrnoldsweiler is opened by US soldier. Polish and Russian women prisoners are led through the gate. MSs, CUs, smiling faces of the releases women prisoners. Close up of soldier, "Hi Mom." MCU, large group, ex-prisoners speak to US soldiers and walk hand in hand through prison gate. Pan, CU, happy faces, different types of Polish and Russian political prisoners who were liberated by the US First Army. MSs, CU dead German soldier, face down in trench. MSs, CUs, German civilians and soldiers, escorted by US soldier with rifle, marched to POW camp. (Note: This concentration camp housed Polish and Russian political prisoners, used by Germans as agricultural workers). Former Russian & Polish civilian inmates in town talking in groups, very animated. Political prisoners as well. Men and women washing utensils outside on bench. Meat in a pot. Collection of shoes on ground. Two men carrying blankets and a tub of water. Piling corpses (soldiers?) onto little flatbed. Gully/ditch along edge of camp; barbed wire view from watchtower. View of tower, pan of barbed wire fences. Various shots of women hanging out by village wall/store; soldiers. [Footage shows rebuilding of lives.] Bombing over sea.
Duration: 00:10:24
Date: Event: 1945 February
Locale: Bergenhausen, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 02:12:22:00 to 02:18:05:00
Film Format: Master
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 153 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 153 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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.

Keyword: ARCHITECTURE CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES PRISONERS (POLISH) PRISONERS (SOVIET) REFUGEES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SURVIVORS SURVIVORS (POLISH) SURVIVORS (SOVIET) WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1991. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
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: 5
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 1759
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive