Red Cross treats victims of Penig concentration camp

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.2437 | Film ID: 2272

Overview

Description: Jewish Concentration Camp, Penig, Germany, April 17, 1945. German uniformed medics carry female survivors from concentration camp in Penig into hospital from Red Cross ambulances. VAR MSs and CUs, females on litters waiting to be carried. Survivors smile widely. Hospital sign, "Zum Luftschutz-Sanitaetsraum." 01:01:16 Ambulances traveling on road. LS, medics take survivors on litters out of ambulance and line cots on the grass. Medic talks to a survivor, helps another walk into the hospital. Red Cross nurses. INT, American doctors consult surviviors in their hospital beds, treat wounds. Aerial view of medics helping survivors from ambulance into hospital. 01:03:56 US soldiers assist survivors form concentration camp barracks into ambulances, some carried on litters. MSs survivors, inside barracks. CU, foot wound. MS, rear view of survivor with sores. Doctor examines victims, forces survivor to take off clothes. Woman walks toward camera, pan to her boots. Survivor talks to US army soldier. 01:06:24 Three women survivors speak to a Red Cross official, the woman at the far lef tis Edith Freundlich (nee Guttman). Aerial shots of ambulances exiting concentration camp, passing barbed wire gates.
Duration: 00:06:21
Date: Event: 1948 April 17
Locale: Penig, 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: Good
Time Code: 01:00:39:00 to 01:07:00:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2272 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

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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: AMBULANCES BARRACKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) DOCTORS GERMANS GERMANY HOSPITALS JEWS PENIG RED CROSS SURVIVORS SURVIVORS (JEWISH) TRUCKS UNITED STATES WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection - not accessioned
Note: Clips of this unedited footage of Penig were used in the film "Nazi Concentration Camps" which was shown as evidence during the Nuremberg Trial. See Story 2006, Film ID 837 and Story 2285, Film ID 876.

Captain Dorothy Beavers Pecora from the Third Army appears in this film. She liberated Ebensee and Penig camps.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2209
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 9756
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive