Warsaw ghetto and Stutthof liberated

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3160 | Film ID: 2489

Overview

Description: Warsaw ghetto, women walk and stand about on a street, some with armbands. Children play a game.

LS of Stutthof concentration camp liberated by the Soviets. VS of camp: barracks, piles of hair, pan, clothing, a man and woman standing upon a mountain of shoes, Zyklon B (poison gas) canisters, ovens. More scenes of the camp, road, barbed wire, etc., ends on CU of stone tablet/memorial plaque, engraved on wall, that reads: "Bojownikom O Wolnosc Pomordowanym W Sztutowie W latach 1939-1945 [To all who fought for freedom and were tortured at Stutthof in 1939-1945.]

Translation of voiceover narration:
[Opens with Russian narration] Look at these people. An anguished death awaits each of them. In the summer of 1942 in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto these people are still busy going about their business. Children are still smiling at the sun.

[Ukrainian narration.] This footage was taken at Stutthof after the Soviet army had liberated it. "Zyklon" - poison for gas chambers. Ash from the ovens was used at greenhouses. Flowers from the greenhouses went to the commandant Hoppe's villa.

[Abrupt] ...at Stutthof, the camp that became a monument to mankind's sorrow.
Duration: 00:02:03
Date: Event: 1942; 1945
Production: 1986
Locale: Stutthof (Sztutowo), Germany
Warsaw, Poland
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of TSDKFFA

Language: Russian Ukrainian
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 00:39:50:00 to 00:41:53:00
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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Keyword: BARBED WIRE BARRACKS CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CROSSES HUMAN HAIR JEWS MEMORIALS SHOES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) STUTTHOF WARSAW GHETTO ZYKLON B

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.
Note: Stutthof alternate spelling: Sztutowo.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3499
Source Archive Number: 2430 Reel I
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive