Overview
- Description
- "Agfa 1941" Overturned train. Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in foundation of building/basement. Scene change; different location. Pan around to bodies, some clothed, some with clothes partially torn off. Visible at edge of frame is a German/Nazi cameraman. LS, bodies strewn everywhere. MLS corpse with face shot off. Hat on the ground; suspenders showing. Bullet holes in the wall. Streaks of blood? LS, town, building facades with bullet holes and chips. EXT, large building devastated by fire. Military vehicles drive along the street next to the building riddled with bullet holes. Uniformed men stand next to building and rubble.
- Duration
- 00:05:09
- Date
-
Event:
1941/1942
- Locale
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Baltic region
Lviv (Lvov), Poland
Soviet Union
Ukraine
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Heeresfilmstelle Berlin
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:52:47:00 to 01:57:56:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- User
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Bundesarchiv in December 2009.
- Note
- See also RG-60.0328 for duplicate footage.
According to historian John-Paul Himka (May 2010), the scene takes place in 1941 in Lviv (Lwow), where victims of the NKVD killings were found at the prison. Jews were blamed and forced to "help" but were also attacked by the locals. The building here should be identifiable, and the burn marks at the windows are likely to match photos. // Victims of the Russian massacre is the open field with corpses of soldiers with bullet holes - verify that they are Polish. - Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5424
Source Archive Number: 1804 R1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:03:27
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