Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- A witness testifies
Overview
- Description
- 15:48 A witness, Mrs. Francine Gudefin, testifies; she describes torture carried out by Francis André and by Barbie, and being forced to watch her brother being waterboarded; the witness describes a serious injury to her ear, as well as to her vertebral column; she describes the "chambre des torturés" (room of the tortured people) in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters at Place Bellecourt; description of an injury sustained during torture which left her face permanently disfigured
16:07 President Cerdini asks the witness how many times she was interrogated, and whether Barbie ever explicitly told her that she would be deported; she describes the circumstances of her departure on August 11, 1944, and confirms Barbie's presence at the train station; she claims that Barbie interrogated her inside the train while it traveled from Lyon to Dijon; she describes her deportation to Ravensbrück and her long convalescence in a Russian hospital
16:26 The Attorney General asks the witness to explain how she identified Barbie; reads a previous statement given by the witness in which she did not identify Barbie as her interrogator
16:29 Prosecutor Iannucci reads a statement given by Barbie in which he denied ever being present at a deportation; Iannucci reads a list of 10 witnesses and victims who have testified to seeing Barbie at their deportation
16:30 Prosecutor Zelmati asks the witness whether the torture inflicted by Francis André was on Barbie's order; she replies that it was
16:32 Defense attorney Vergès comments on the contradictions between different testimonies given by the witness regarding her interactions with Barbie; her comments are discussed by Vergès, Cerdini, and the Attorney General
16:41 Prosecutor Jakubowicz comments that there is no ambiguity regarding the witness' confrontation with Barbie on November 15, 1944; Mrs. Gudefin comments on the subject of that conversation
16:45 Vergès comments that Mrs. Gudefin's testimony varies with each repetition
16:45 President Cerdini suspends the hearing
16:46 End of tape - Film Title
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Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- 00:58:39
- Date
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Event:
1987 June 04
- 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
- 15:48:11:00 to 16:46:50:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3994 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3994 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3994 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3994 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: 5885
Source Archive Number: 80078 [8 AV 79] - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:57:31
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