Feeding survivors and barracks in flames at Belsen on the 7th Day

Identifier
irn1000205
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.251.1
  • RG-60.0054
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • William Lawrie (Camera Operator)
  • Imperial War Museums

Scope and Content

Soldiers open can of food for a woman. MSs of camp huts in flames ["accidental fire" handwritten into caption on one sheet, and on another "One of the huts caught fire - I was unable to ascertain whether this was done purposely by the inmates or whether it was accidental. It was not set alight by British troops for any reason."] CUs of flames. British soldiers and ex-prisoners watch the fires.

Subjects

  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • FOOD
  • SMOKE
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
  • SURVIVORS
  • BERGEN-BELSEN
  • LIBERATION
  • FIRES

Places

  • Belsen, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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