Belsen Concentration Camp: burial; hairwashing; Red Cross

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0057 | Film ID: 8

Overview

Description: MLS, two chaplains, Rev. P.T. Stretch and Rev. Cuthbert, standing by pit performing burial service before open mass grave. VAR shots, scarf with cross visible. MCU Jewish priest, Rev. L. H. Hordman shovels dirt into open grave. Bulldozing earth into pit. SS men help to fill in grave with shovels. Survivors sitting under pitched roof on heap. CU of various male survivors, sitting cooking together before entrance to tent. CU man leaning against hut wall, talking, emaciated. CU, women talking and nodding to cameraman's assistant at frame left. MLS, two French women in open ground, one washes the other's hair, CU same. Smoke, old black buckets around. More hairwashing. Troops in decontamination suits and hospital smocks loading up Red Cross trucks with typhus cases on stretchers. Crowd of survivors around truck. Ambulance doors closed, "Contaminated" chalked on left door, truck pulling away. Rev. Hardman of Leeds, Jewish priest, surrounded by small circle of internees, leads them in hymn, women of congregation singing.
Duration: 00:05:04
Date: Event: 1945 April 23
Locale: Belsen, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
Contributor: Camera Operator: William Lawrie
Subject: Leslie Hardman
Biography: Rev. Leslie Hardman was a British Army Chaplain at the liberation of Belsen.

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 15:55:58:00 to 16:01:02:00
Film Format: Master
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 8 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 9 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 8 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 8 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation 9 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small

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Copyright Holder: Imperial War Museums

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film segments about the liberation of Belsen from the Imperial War Museum in London in March 1991.
Note: Rev. Leslie Hardman appears in this footage at 15:56;25.
Copied From: 35mm positive b/w
Film Source: Imperial War Museums
File Number: Legacy Database File: 199
Source Archive Number: A700/308/1
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

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