Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0081 | Film ID: 140

Overview

Description: Shots of the INT of a synagogue, possibly Jonava. SS guard ordering Jewish men and young men coming out of a building (the synagogue?) -- a roundup. The Jews run down the street. The following scenes are disjointed. Shots of the Riga synagogue burning at night. The famous shots of forced labor of Jewish men climbing out of a ditch with shovels and digging on the roadside; one religious man is approached by soldiers and made to take off his shirt. Jews beaten in streets by locals and then forced labor of Jews cleaning the streets after bombing and destruction, lots of rubble. In Mogilev, Jews are forced to wear oversized stars for propaganda purposes. Very fuzzy version of the Libau footage of the Einsatzgruppen event (1943): in shifts, two groups of Jewish men scramble out of back of truck and run toward narrow pit. Lined up soldiers are standing above the pit. The soldiers shoot into the pit and kill the men.
Duration: 00:02:40
Date: Event: 1941-1943
Locale: Jonava, Lithuania
Riga, Latvia
Vilna, Lithuania
Baltic region
Libau [Liepaja], Latvia
Mogilev, Belarus
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chronos-Media Filmarchiv

Language: German
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 04:15:10:00 to 04:17:50:00
Film Format: Master
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 140 Film: 35 mm
Master 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 140 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: Chronos-Media GmbH
Conditions on Use: Contact Chronos-Media at info@chronos-media.de for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
Copyright Holder: Chronos-Media GmbH

Keyword: ATROCITIES BEATINGS BOMBINGS DESTRUCTION EINSATZGRUPPEN FORCED LABOR JEWS LATVIA PITS PROPAGANDA ROUNDUPS RUINS SHOVELS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) STARS OF DAVID STREETS SYNAGOGUES TRUCKS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film documents from Chronos-Media GmbH in Potsdam, Germany in 1989. Film and Video staff ordered videotape transfers in November 1991.
Note: This story is mostly from the BUNDESARCHIV. See Stories 107, 110-112 on Film ID 145 and Story 282, Film ID 201 for duplicate footage.

Original film can label reads "Chronos / Dokuments / Akt 1".

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Film and Video department received this particular footage without asking for it. Identification from Brewster Chamberlain and Martin Smith's notes.
Copied From: 16mm b/w
Film Source: Chronos-Media GmbH
File Number: Legacy Database File: 637
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive