Liberation of Kharkiv (Kharkov), Ukraine

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3163 | Film ID: 2489

Overview

Description: Newsreel produced on the first anniversary of the liberation of Kharkiv [Kharkov]. Clouds of billowing smoke. CU cross (grave marker). CU barbed wire fence, behind the fence are more grave markers. MS, wall through barbed wire, on wall the word "Lager" is written. EXT of building, CU, shot from low angle, angle up to sign above entrance to building that reads: "Ortskommandantur-West". MLS of the same building, from across the street. VS, destruction of city, crumbled buildings, rubble and dead body in the streets. Still of several men hanging from a balcony (location and victims unidentified). LS down an empty city street, buildings of the city silhouetted against the sky.

Translation of Ukrainian narration:
This is what the culture of a new order looks like. Before this city had 1,012 plants and factories, 108 scientific-research institutions, 40 higher education institutions, and 80 theaters, clubs, and cinemas. Slowly, Kharkiv was dying.
Film Title: Newsreel No. 25 and No. 26
Duration: 00:00:28
Date: Event: 1943
Production: 1944
Locale: Ukraine
Kharkov (Kharkiv), Soviet Union
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of TSDKFFA

Language: Ukrainian
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 00:43:13:00 to 00:43:41:00
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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Copyright: Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
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Copyright Holder: Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine

Keyword: BARBED WIRE BUILDINGS CEMETERIES CITIES CORPSES CROSSES DESTRUCTION HANGINGS LIBERATION RUBBLE RUINS SIGNS/POSTERS UKRAINE

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: Alternate spelling of Kharkov is Charkow.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3530
Source Archive Number: 171
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive