Overview
- Description
- (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Continuation of Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier's testimony. French prosecutor Dubost interrupts occasionally to ask a question. The witness talks about the wife of Georges Politzer, Hélène Solomon (wife of physician Jacques Solomon) and Danielle Casanova (surgeon), who launched a resistance movement among the women prisoners (49 of them made it back to France). One woman aged 67 had kept the rifle of her husband as a "souvenir," she died within two weeks in Auschwitz. She names and describes more women, all of whom died in Auschwitz. She then describes how they arrived at Auschwitz early one morning. They knew there was little chance for survival, seeing a group of "skeletons" going to work, they sang the Marseillaise to give themselves courage, their hair was shaved and they got a tattoo. She shows it to the court. She then tells the court of one night when they heard terrible screams, and the next morning they learned from the "Sonderkommando" that because of lack of gas, they had thrown children into the ovens alive that night.... At the time of liberation, the numbers prisoners were given had risen to 105 000+ ("cent cinq mille et quelque"). They were regularly rounded up for roll-calls, people were called out by their number and never seen again, the clothes were seen to return to the disinfection chamber....
- Duration
- 00:08:58
- Date
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Event:
1946 January 28
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 07:37:55:00 to 07:46:53:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2345 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 2001.
- Note
- See Photo Archive W/S 57422 for the Auschwitz mug shot photograph of Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier (no. 31685). Marie was born on March 11, 1912 in Paris. She arrived in Auschwitz on January 24, 1943. The photograph belongs to Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2972
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5771 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:51:06
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