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Eichmann Trial -- Session 69 -- Testimony of A. Beilin (Bialystok and Auschwitz, Yom Kippur 1944)

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.082 | Film ID: 2082

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    Eichmann Trial -- Session 69 -- Testimony of A. Beilin (Bialystok and Auschwitz, Yom Kippur 1944)

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    Description
    Session 69. Witness Dr. Aharon Beilin continues his testimony. He explains that he tried to hide from being rounded up in Bialystok to be deported to Auschwitz. He and his mother were in one bunker and his wife was in another. He talks about the SS doctor who was responsible for his selection - Dr. Rohde. Describes his mother being selected and a few hours later seeing her coat on a truck - realizing she was dead. 00:03:52 Explains what happened to those who were not selected - gymnastics. 00:06:01 He sent a postcard to his wife. The inmates were separated according to profession. Describes Schillinger beating people to death with a wooden spoon. 00:10:35 70% of people in his block died in four weeks. He recalls that those whose temperature rose a degree would be sent to the gas chambers - as a potential germ carrier. 00:12:38 Talks about people he encountered from countries other than Poland. 00:16:25 Talks of SS doctors in the camp. Jewish doctors became male nurses because Jews could not be doctors. 00:19:31 Asked about disease in the camp - spotted fever, diarrhea, scabies. 00:21:17 Asked about suicide. One Dutch doctor committed suicide after being told by Beilin that he would not see his wife and children again - as they had probably been killed. He observed that Jews of eastern Europe were more conditioned (used to enduring harsher conditions) and less likely to commit suicide than western European Jews. Repeats inscriptions on the wall of the sauna, and recites poems. 00:29:29 Talks about the political department - two departments, inmates who did tattooing and registration, and the department who sought out propaganda and intelligence. 00:31:17 Describes 'Musselmann'; Musselmann talk - when they discussed food, a taboo subject. 00:34:24 Epidemics, if they broke out in a block - all the inhabitants of that block would be killed. Roma arrived in September 1944 (later, he says 1943). Describes Roma not wanting to be treated by Jewish doctors, some were members of the Nazi youth, many greeted people in the camp with "Heil Hitler," some German Roma/Sinti arrived wearing German military uniforms. 00:42:22 Talks about how the Roma lived in Auschwitz - family camp, maternity ward (babies tattooed on the day of birth). What happened to the Roma in the camp - different illnesses to the other camps, plague (chickenpox which resembled bubonic plague), Noma (water cancer, gangrene of the mouth). Professor Epstein offered, by Eichmann, to prolong his life if he conducted medical experiments - he refused. Orphanage was emptied. 00:50:42 Talks about Mengele. Roma being liquidated, Hungarian Jews took their place. "Goebbels Calendar" - every Saturday and Jewish holiday sick ward was liquidated. Commotion in the audience. 00:55:00 Talks of his wife, and her being very ill. Beilin smuggled over a drug against typhoid for her, she died the next day. Describes how she got to Auschwitz. 00:57:49 Zyklon B was used to disinfect everything. Beilin passed out/went into coma from carrying bedding disinfected with Zyklon B. 01:02:44 Item, book with picture of Zyklon B label/container, marked T/1329. 01:03:40 Talks about Jewish boys who had sexual experiments conducted on them.
    Film Title
    Eichmann Trial
    Duration
    01:05:26
    Date
    Event:  1961 June 07
    Production:  1961 June 07
    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 Hebrew German
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    00:00:17:00 to 01:05:43:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2082 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2082 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2082 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
      Master 2082 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2082 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2082 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2082 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2082 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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    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.
    Copied From
    2" Quad
    Film Source
    Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2292
    Source Archive Number: VTEI 126
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:44:16
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