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Sutzkever (Yiddish writer) and Szmaglewska (Polish underground member) testify at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2842 | Film ID: 2351

(Munich 15) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 27, 1946. MLSs, Abraham Sutzkever, a witness who spent two years in a ghetto and joined the partisans in Lithuania. MSs, Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and Justice Francis Biddle making notes at the bench. LS, Justice Lawrence questions Sutzkever. MLS, Seweryna Szmaglewska testifying through an interpreter. The witness was active in the Polish underground.


Duration
00:10:21
Date
Event:  1946 February 27
Locale
Nuremberg, Germany
Language
Russian
Polish
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

About This Film

Contributor
Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
B&W / Color
Black & White
Image Quality
Fair
Time Code
04:09:30:00 to 04:19:51:00
Film Format
  • Master
    • Master 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Master 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Master 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Master 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
  • Preservation
    • Preservation 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    Preservation 2351 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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 from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 2001.
Note
Language: The first testimony is in Russian. In the second testimony, the witness speaks Polish while the translator communicates in Russian.
Copied From
35mm DNC; b/w
Film Source
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number
Legacy Database File: 2998
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5814

Rights and 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.

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:03:07
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