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Liberation of Auschwitz

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.0536 | Film ID: 213

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    Liberation of Auschwitz

    Overview

    Description
    "Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Soviet auspices with narration in Russian. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn faces, dead in the street, men with blankets over their heads. The evacuation of the camp - prisoners are helped and carried out; crowds march out (many wearing striped uniforms); horses and wagons carry the sick; children are led out by nuns and others, including child survivor Tomy Shacham wearing a uniform with extra-long arms and Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam leading the group.
    Duration
    00:09:01
    Date
    Event:  1945 January
    Production:  1945
    Locale
    Auschwitz, Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Unknown Film Source
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: M. Oschurkow
    Camera Operator: Alexander Vorontsov
    Camera Operator: N. Bykow
    Camera Operator: Kenan Kutub-Sade
    Camera Operator: A. Pawlow

    Physical Details

    Language
    Russian
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    00:19:37:00 to 00:28:38:00
    Film Format
    • Master
      • Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Film: 35 mm
      Master 213 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
      • Preservation 213 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 213 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 213 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 213 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection - not accessioned
    Note
    It is possible this film copy was obtained from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum before the USHMM opened. There are no burn-in time codes on the VHS user copy.

    This footage matches the NARA reel 111 ADC 8556 exactly. See also Story 26, Film ID 5 and Story 37, Film ID 6 for duplicate footage. See also Story 2769, Film ID 167 for duplicate footage of the entire film -- "Oswiecem" ["Auschwitz"] -- in English. See also Story 3249, Film ID 2534.

    The Soviet film on atrocities - Film Documents of the Atrocities committed by German Fascists in the USSR (Kinodokumenty O Zverstvakh Nemetsko-Fashiskikh Zakhvatchikov) - with scenes of Auschwitz was presented as evidence on February 19, 1946 (Day 62 of the trial) under Document USSR-81.

    Tomy Shacham and Eva Mozes Kor are interviewed in the 2015 British documentary, "Night Will Fall".

    The Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz was shot over a period of several months beginning on January 27, 1945, the day of liberation. It consists of both staged and unrehearsed footage of Auschwitz survivors (adults and children) taken in the first hours and days of their liberation, as well as scenes of their evacuation, which took place weeks or months later. The film includes the first inspection of the camp by Soviet war crimes investigators, as well as the initial medical examination of the survivors by Soviet physicians. It also records the public burial ceremony that took place on February 28, 1945 for Auschwitz victims who died just before and after the liberation. The order to make the film was issued by Mikhael Oschurkow, head of the photography unit, and was carried out by Alexander Voronzow and others in his group. Eighteen minutes of the film was introduced as evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Another segment of the film disappeared for forty years before resurfacing in Moscow in 1986. [Source: Alexander Voronzow interview, Chronos-Films, The Liberation of Auschwitz, 1986]
    Film Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Council
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1576
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:53:13
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