Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

Identifier
irn1000401
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.262.1
  • RG-60.0723
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Propaganda Kompanie (Producer)
  • National Center for Jewish Film

Scope and Content

Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

Note(s)

  • See Story 2115, Film ID 2257 for better quality footage and longer shots. See Story 3824, Film ID 2324 for duplicate footage (later transfer from NCJF). For similar footage of placing corspe in a casket, see Story 2547b, Film ID 248 (those shots are much better quality and more gruesome). See also Story 78, Film ID 140. Burn-in time codes appears on Betacam SP version (Protection copy) as well as the VHS. NCJF can make their one-inch version available on a loan basis.

Subjects

  • CARTS/WAGONS
  • GHETTOS
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • JEWS
  • POLAND
  • WARSAW GHETTO
  • CORPSES
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
  • COFFINS

Places

  • Warsaw, Poland

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.