Liberation of Ozarichi and Minsk

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.474.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4606 | Film ID: 2833

Overview

Description: Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated in a hospital. Barbed wire around camp (still Ozarichi?). Scenes of German-occupied Minsk. Germans regulate traffic and check papers of civilians in cars. German soldiers break into a house and search the interior (probably two separate locations edited together). Germans walk down a street with destroyed buildings. Barbed wire around the Minsk ghetto, followed by the same shot of the German soldiers walking down the street. Pan up to a sign on the ghetto fence in German and Russian which reads, "Those who climb over the fence will be shot." Scenes from Maly Trostinets concentration camp, including a sign which reads, "Access to the camp is forbidden! [Trespassers] will be shot without warning." A shot of a pile of corpses is followed by a shot of corpses being burned in a huge pile.
Duration: 00:03:57
Date: Event: 1944
Locale: Minsk, Soviet Union
Maly Trostinets, Soviet Union
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Russian Archives of Documentary Films and Photographs

Language: Russian
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:24:20:00 to 01:28:17:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Master 2833 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - PAL
Preservation
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2833 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
Copyright: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
Conditions on Use: Contact the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk at filmarchives@aha.ru for permission to reproduce and use this film.
Copyright Holder: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)

Keyword: BARBED WIRE CHILDREN CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES FIRES GHETTOS HOSPITALS MALY TROSTINETS MEDICAL CARE NURSES PASSPORTS SIGNS/POSTERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) SOVIET UNION TRAINS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased a copy of this footage from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) in Krasnogorsk, Russia in August 2006.
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4953
Source Archive Number: 5520 R. 4
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive