Overview
- Description
- (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier, Communist member of the French National Assembly, testifies. The witness speaks about being a prisoner of the Germans and the maltreatment of Jews in concentration camps. She describes the procedures of selection etc. at the arrival of transports in the camp. Women in good health conditions in their 20s and 30s, as well as twins, were taken aside for experiments. She says she does not know what they did with them, apart from taking blood and measuring them. She says that the people were very sad about parting with their relatives, but they had no idea that they went to their deaths. She tells about a "general roll-call" on February 5, 1943, where they had to stand in the snow from 3.30 a.m. until 5 p.m., when they were chased back to the barracks. Those who could not run were driven to barrack 25 (waiting room for the gas chamber).
- Duration
- 00:08:41
- Date
-
Event:
1946 January 28
- Locale
-
Nuremberg,
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
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 07:28:45:00 to 07:37:26:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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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 2001.
- Note
- See Photo Archive W/S 57422 for the Auschwitz mug shot photograph of Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier (no. 31685). Marie was born on March 11, 1912 in Paris. She arrived in Auschwitz on January 24, 1943. The photograph belongs to Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu.
- Copied From
- 35mm FGMC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2971
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5770 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:43:37
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