Prison camp in Yugoslavia; Communist commemoration

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.740.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4053 | Film ID: 2722

Overview

Description: Titles in Cyrillic - Serbo-Croatian. Series of head shots, close, of corpses with names superimposed. HAS from airplane. Destruction, ruins in town. Croatian man. Homes. Group of villagers (men) marching, soldiers guarding them. Pan up, gate with "Radna Sluzba Ustaske Obrane Sabirni Logor Br. III" German sign: "Arbeitslager..." Prisoners, soldier with rifles, walking barefoot to perform labor, horse/carts, farmhouse. VAR shots, carts, construction, labor (digging, etc). Guardtower. Pushing wheelbarrow. Soldier with gun guards from tower. Lunch rations. Newspapers/headlines. Corpses. Local farmers, hay, interviewing a bare-chested man at lakeside. Corpses. Sculptor, artwork. Interviewing another man. Ustasha officials visit camp, climb watchtower, play with a bird. More corspes, piles of logs, ruins. Sign on building "Tvornica Lanaca." More corspes. Destruction to building, bricks, bones, barbed wire, debris/corpses in the river (near Jasenovac?). Signs, headlines. Civilians gather for memorials/funerals with signs and flowers during Communist times (hammer & sickle, red star visible). CUs, Ustashe? officials on trial. Narodni List headline. HAS, parade thorugh town. Sign showing term Jasenovac.
Film Title: Lepoglawa [Lepoglava]
Duration: 00:14:21
Date: Event: 1941-1945
Locale: Croatia
Yugoslavia
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv

Language: Serbocroatian
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Poor
Time Code: 01:00:00:00 to 01:14:21:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2722 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Master 2722 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Master 2722 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Master 2722 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - small
Preservation
Preservation 2722 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2722 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2722 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2722 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

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Copyright: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.
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Copyright Holder: Federal Republic of Germany. Bundesarchiv.

Keyword: COLLABORATORS (CROATIAN) COMMUNISTS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONSTRUCTION CORPSES CROATIA DESTRUCTION FARMERS/FARMING HEADLINES JASENOVAC LABOR NEWSPAPERS PRISONERS PRISONS SOLDIERS/MILITARY USTASHI WATCH TOWERS YUGOSLAVIA

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in 2004.
Note: During World War II, Lepoglava was a prison for officials and supporters of the ex-Yugoslav kingdom run by the Ustashe. 1000 people died there, including Lorkovic and Vokic who attempted a coup against the Ustashe and were executed in April 1945.
Film Source: Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4250
Source Archive Number: SP 20932
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive