Overview
- Description
- (LIB 6585) Reburial of Atrocity Victims, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945
SEQ: Prayers for the dead are said by a Jewish chaplain of the US 5th Inf. Div. at ceremony. Civilians unload coffins from truck. SEQ: French, Belgian, and US soldiers and civilians watch burials. LSs, MSs, CUs, one woman and two men remove corpses from shallow graves. MSs, women survivors, emotionally moved by the corpses. LS, women and children walk past a row of corpses lying on the ground. LSs, MSs, two US soldiers watch German civilians exhume the bodies of the dead and place them in coffins. LS, women carrying coffins to trucks.
NOTE: 32 female bodies were exhumed. - Duration
- 00:08:51
- Date
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Event:
1945 May 11
- Locale
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Volary,
Czechoslovakia
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:19:40:00 to 01:28:31:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2741 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2741 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2741 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2741 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2741 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2741 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2741 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2741 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this footage from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 2004.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4601
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4592 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:19
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