Overview
- Description
- Doctors examine and care for very sick, emaciated children and youth. Panning shot of a medication (barbiturate) called Evipan Natrium, made by Bayer, and other medications (used for euthanasia?). Interior of a cell with a blanket labeled "Anstalt Obrawalde" (Obrawalde Institution, located in Obrawalde, Germany, now Obrzyce, Poland). A medic and another man inspect the cell. Views of the crematorium and the graveyard, with graves marked with small, numbered stones. CU of one of the stones, numbered 1632. A hand withdraws the stone from the ground and shows the camera that there is another number on the reverse. Men dig graves (or exhume corpses). Interior shots of an autopsy or a killing room. Views of a device that looks as if it was used to behead people. Photos, presumably taken from the murdered inmates. CUs of corpses in open coffins. Panning shot of a morgue (?); CUs of shackles and other devices used to restrain the inmates. Barred cell littered with hundreds of corpses. 01:09:27 The location changes to Auschwitz. Well-known shots of piles of prisoners' suitcases, men inspecting bales of hair (one bale labeled KL AU 228), teeth. Brief shot of doctors examining liberated prisoners at Auschwitz.
- Duration
- 00:04:10
- Date
-
Event:
1945
Production: 1945
- Locale
-
Obrawalde,
Germany
Auschwitz, Poland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Embassy of United States of America, Berlin
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 01:06:42:00 to 01:10:52:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large
Master 2887 Video: Digital Betacam - PAL - large- Preservation
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2887 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- User
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
User 2887 Video: DVD
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Embassy of the United States of America, Berlin
- Conditions on Use
- Contact the Embassy of the United States of America, Berlin, Press Office at clarkk2@state.gov (Frau Katja Clark) for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Embassy of the United States of America, Berlin
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Bundesarchiv in December 2009.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5414
Source Archive Number: 2722 R1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:56:07
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