Corpses carried in wagons, piled in shed, buried in pit

Identifier
irn1000402
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.262.1
  • RG-60.0724
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

Men load bodies onto wagon, pushing wagon down street by wall; little boy helps. More shots of corpses, loading on wagons. Wagon brought to central, primitive morgue, bodies unloaded. CU of piles of bodies. Line of hand carts with corpses brought to burial ground, bodies put into pit, as religious men look on. Putting layer of paper and dirt on bodies.

Note(s)

  • See Story 2115, Film ID 2257 for longer and better quality shots. See Story 3825, Film ID 2324 for duplicate footage (later transfer from NCJF). 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

  • WARSAW GHETTO
  • CEMETERIES
  • JEWS
  • GHETTOS
  • POLAND
  • CARTS/WAGONS
  • PROPAGANDA (NAZI)
  • ORTHODOX JEWS
  • PITS
  • CORPSES
  • BURIALS
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)

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.