Deportation of Bulgarian Jews

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.4349 | Film ID: 2778

Overview

Description: Reel 2
CUs, documents. Contemporary footage - interview, man reading from letter, inside museum exhibit showing books and a button in the shape of a Star of David. Forced laborers on a mountain. Meeting with Nazi officials. German planes. Contemporary footage of man singing a song in Bulgarian and playing the guitar, inside the museum exhibition (the song is performed other times over the duration of the film). Eichmann. Bulgarian Jews with star patches deported on trains (See Story RG-60.0466 on Film ID 246 for more detail). Eichmann on trial. CUs, documents. Jews gathered in town square. Deportation of Jews walking in line, getting on and off trucks, on and off trains, with baggage, onto large ship "Saturnus". (See Story RG-60.0466 on Film ID 246 for more detail). Still photographs of mass murder - pits with corpses.
Film Title: Transports of Death That Didn't Leave
Duration: 00:10:40
Date: Production: 1977
Locale: Bulgaria
Greece
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bulgarian National Film Archive
Contributor: Producer: Haim Oliver

Language: Bulgarian
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:00:00:00 to 01:10:40:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2778 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - print
Master 2778 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2778 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - print
Master 2778 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2778 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - print
Master 2778 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Master 2778 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - print
Master 2778 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 2778 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2778 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2778 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2778 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: Bulgarska Nacionalna Filmoteka
Conditions on Use: The Bulgarian National Film Archive holds the rights on this footage. A contract for use must be signed with BNFA. Contact filmoteka@bnf.bg.
Copyright Holder: Bulgarska Nacionalna Filmoteka

Keyword: CORPSES DEPORTATIONS DOCUMENTS EICHMANN TRIAL EICHMANN, ADOLF INTERVIEWS JEWS LABOR LUGGAGE SHIPS STARS OF DAVID TRAINS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection - not accessioned
Note: Film narration needs to be analyzed further by a Bulgarian speaker.
See Film ID 2777 for the beginning of this film and 2779 and 2780 for the continuation of this film.

Original notes indicate that the deportation footage illustrates the deportation of the Jewish communities of Kavala, Seres, and Drama in what is now Northern Greece. The deportation started on March 4, 1943 and consisted of 3000 people. The people were driven by trucks to the railway station in Drama and without food and water put on trains and taken to Gorna Dzumaya where they lived in a temporary camp until March 18, 1943. On that day, they were locked in wagons and taken to Lom on the Danube river. At the port of Lom, four ships with 4000 "passengers" on board left for Vienna on March 20 and 21, 1943. Their next stop was Treblinka.

Film received the "National Front Prize" from the short film festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1978.
Film Source: BULGARIAN CINEMATHEQUE
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4651
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive