Overview
- Description
- [The title is misleading - there is actually no trial footage in this story.]
VS, CU, malnourished baby in diaper, CU, needle and syringe and hand, person is wearing a white lab coat. CUs of survivors, lying emaciated on the ground and in wooden beds. INT, still of room where bodies were decapitated. MCU, bushel of heads in a wooden fruit basket, resting next to a line of decapitated corpses in a wooden rack. Various CUs of the heads. Montage of familiar camp images: ovens, piles of metal, hair, and shoes.
Translation of Ukrainian narration:
A giant death industry was being created. More than three thousand enterprises were working on its production line. Starting with the smaller ones, where people were killed by a shot in the neck, and up to the great industrial death complexes, where execution was done mechanically, with chemicals and electricity, using the latest of science and technology. ...[abrupt] producing soap from the killed, but they didn't have time to finish it. - Film Title
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People's Trial- Majdanek
- Duration
- 00:00:57
- Date
-
Production:
1946
- Locale
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Majdanek,
Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of TSDKFFA
Physical Details
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:05:47:00 to 00:06:44:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2489 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2489 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2489 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2489 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2489 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2489 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2489 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2489 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
- Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
- Conditions on Use
- For permission to license, reproduce, and use film materials from the Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine, visit https://tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua/poslugy/ or contact tsdkffa@arch.gov.ua
- Copyright Holder
- Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of moving image segments from the Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archive (https://tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua) at the Ukraine National Archives in Kiev, Ukraine in 2001.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3455
Source Archive Number: 2048 Reel VI - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:55:23
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