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Burying the dead

Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0111 | Film ID: 145
Image

Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.

Duration
00:01:01
Event Date
1941 July
Locale
Riga, Latvia
Language
German
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chronos-Media Filmarchiv
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About This Film

B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Fair
Time Code
06:04:06:00 to 06:05:07:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 145 Film: 35 mm
    Master 145 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 145 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Special Collection
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

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 Story 81, Film ID 140 and Story 283, Film ID 201 for duplicate (better quality) footage.

Original film can label reads "Chronos - Yad Vashem / Diskriminierung, Verfolgung u. Gefangennahme von Juden". Film transferred by Chronos in 1980.
Film Source
Chronos-Media GmbH
File Number
Legacy Database File: 2227
Source Archive Number: YV 37

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright
Copyright. Chronos-Media GmbH
 
Record last modified: 2018-11-27 10:58:47
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