Barbie Trial -- Day 8 -- A witness testifies regarding the UGIF raid; a civil party testifies
Overview
- Description
- 13:47 President Cerdini opens the hearing; asks for the accused to present himself; Barbie refuses to appear
13:49 Cerdini asks a bailiff to summon Barbie
13:50 Another bailiff reads the list of witnesses set to appear
13:52 Cerdini suspends the hearing until the bailiff returns from summoning Barbie
14:19 Cerdini resumes the hearing; the bailiff reads a statement noting that Barbie refuses to appear in court
14:22 Prosecutor Kormann asks to present a new document into evidence; the document, from the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, concerns testimony given by an SS General earlier in 1987
14:27 Bailiff introduces the witness, Lea Weiss née Katz; the witness is sworn in
14:29 The witness delivers a deposition; she recounts overhearing police officers discussing the UGIF raid the night before it occurred, going the next day to Rue Ste. Catherine to alert Jewish refugees, and walking into the raid as it was going on; she was arrested and asked to return home to take care of her ailing mother, and was beaten by a German officer; she was told that she could leave but had to report to the Hotel Terminus the next morning; she took a tram back home to look for her mother, who had left to look for her, and they found each other at a neighbor's home; she dyed her hair black, and she and her mother left their home and spent months moving from family to family each night, as the Germans still had her papers.
14:42 Cerdini asks the witness clarification questions relating to her testimony, particularly relating to the day of the UGIF raid
14:45 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks the witness to specify the location where she was asked to return the morning following the raid: the Hotel Terminus, the seat of the Lyon Gestapo
14:45 Defense attorney Vergès asks the witness to specify the nationalities of the officers carrying out the original identity checks (French), and the officers conducting the raid itself inside of the UGIF (German).
14:47 President Cerdini introduces another witness, Mr. Michel Cojot Goldberg, a civil party in the suit against Barbie
14:49 The witness testifies, explaining that he is the son of a victim of the UGIF raid, and that he met Barbie in Bolivia; he tells the story of his family's travel from Paris to Lyon and his father's subsequent arrest; he explains his trip to Bolivia in 1975, in which he planned to assassinate Barbie but found himself incapable of pulling the trigger
15:00 End of tape - Film Title
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Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- 01:22:28
- Date
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Event:
1987 May 20
- Locale
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Lyon,
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- Contributor
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Producer:
Daniel Borgeot
Subject:
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 13:36:04:00 to 14:58:32:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3969 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3969 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3969 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3969 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection containing 185 hours of the Barbie Trial from the Institut National De L’Audiovisuel in Paris, France in July 2005.
- Note
- Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 3/4" Umatic SECAM
- Film Source
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5858
Source Archive Number: 80038 [8 AV 39] - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:57:24
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