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Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 66 and 67 -- Evidence on Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.078 | Film ID: 2077

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    Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 66 and 67 -- Evidence on Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno

    Overview

    Description
    Session 66: Witness Simon Srebnik. Speaks about dismantling the camp of Chelmno. He was shot, he shows his wound to court and describes how he pretended to be dead in order to escape. 00:04:02 Describes the Russians arriving and being liberated. 00:05:30 Asked about his mother.

    00:06:34 Cuts out. Witness Ya'akov Wiernik. Discussing photograph, sketch and a model of Treblinka. 00:07:49 Using pointer he explains what the photograph of the model shows - the geography of the camps. 00:09:46 Discusses where the men and women went. 00:11:26 Shows where the gas chambers were.

    00:12:43 Cuts out. Witness Kalman Teigman, in Treblinka. He too describes what the photograph shows. 00:14:40 Describes what happens at the platform, and during the selection process. 00:15:53 Explains who was on the transport and who was selected. 00:16:18 Asked about Lazarette - fenced off mass grave. 00:17:43 Cuts out and skips to a description of Kurt Franz, Untersturmführer, searching Dr. Julian Chorazycki (or Yuliy Choronzhitski) and finding money on him. Money was for armed uprising. Dr. Chorazycki took poison - Franz tried to resuscitate him so he could torture him. 00:20:12 Cuts out and skips to an explanation of the plan for the revolt and what happened - SS guard was shot, petrol tank set on fire. 00:22:45 Teigman describes what his role was and how he escaped. Germans chased after the escapees, but the inmates were armed for once, and the Germans retreated. 00:23:59 Talks about how many people survived Treblinka.

    00:24:11 Cuts out. Witness Eliahu Rosenberg, in Treblinka. Describes being taken to camp 2 of Treblinka, being shot at by the guards, and having to pick up bodies and put them in the grave. 00:27:27 Shows the court which barrack he lived in. Asked about depth of grave and jobs involved with bodies. 00:28:45 Many people who had to do jobs with corpses committed suicide. Describes process of extermination.

    00:32:08 Session 67. Witness Dr. David Wdowinski is sworn in. In Warsaw, Commander of the National Military Organization during the revolt. 00:36:34 Went to Majdanek, then went to Budzyn. Worked in an airplane factory. Describes the camp. 00:40:30 Describes Dr. Pupko, popular Warsaw doctor, being killed by commandant Reinhold Feik. 00:41:29 Wdowinski talks about his role as a doctor in the camp - making sure the mass grave was clean, disinfecting camp. Asked about a man called Bitter - money falling out of his pocket. Bitter was reported, Feik had him hung but the rope broke, then the Jews were forced to beat him. He constantly repeats that he took what happened with love - he had to do it for the people of Israel. 00:45:56 asked about Klavin, Feik's right hand man. 00:47:15 Asked about Bauchwitz, head of group, who didn't report that one inmate was missing, knowing that other people would be punished for it. The commander hung Bauchwitz for this. 00:51:08 Cuts out. German from factory told Wdowinski he was lucky because Budzyn was still standing despite Eichmann wanting it destroyed. Talks about when he heard Eichmann's name mentioned. 00:56:52 Describes a civilian entering the camp, asking how many Jews were there, saying he had killed 700 Jews already.
    Film Title
    Eichmann Trial
    Duration
    01:00:53
    Date
    Event:  1961 June 06
    Production:  1961 June 06
    Locale
    Jerusalem, Israel
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Contributor
    Director: Leo Hurwitz
    Producer: Milton Fruchtman
    Camera Operator: Rolf M. Kneller
    Camera Operator: F. Csaznik
    Camera Operator: J. Jonilowicz
    Camera Operator: J. Kalach
    Camera Operator: Emil Knebel
    Producer: Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation
    Biography
    Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English German Hebrew
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    00:00:47:00 to 01:01:40:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2077 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2077 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2077 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2077 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2077 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2077 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2077 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2077 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation recorded the proceedings of the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961. The original recording was made on two-inch format videotape. One set of videotapes contained selected portions of the trial for distribution to television stations. The "selected portions" version remained in Israel and was later turned over to the Israel State Archives. Capital Cities Broadcasting retained the set of videotapes containing the complete trial proceedings at offices in New York City until 1965, when they gave the videotapes to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The Anti-Defamation League, in turn, gave the complete set to the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972. With a grant from the Revson Foundation, Hebrew University transferred the two-inch videotapes to U-Matic format. During the transfer process, Hebrew University created three duplicate sets. One set was given to the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, one to the Israel State Archives, and one set to the Jewish Museum in New York City. In 1995, the Israel State Archives transferred the trial footage to digital videoformat with a grant from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Three subsequent digital videotape copies resulted from this transfer of footage. The Israel State Archives retained one digital copy and a second set was deposited at the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the third set of digital videotapes in May 1999.
    Note
    See official transcripts, published in "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann", Vol. I-V, State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem, 1994. Also available online at the Nizkor Project.

    *Severe dropout in master, wayward CCU levels from cameras. At 34 minutes tape damage until 35 minutes. After 50 minutes severe tape damage.
    Copied From
    2" Quad
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2281
    Source Archive Number: VTEI 311
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:46:33
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