Latvian Nationalists massacred by GPU

Identifier
irn1000437
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0283
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Shots of the dead carried on stretchers and lined in rows on the ground, some placed in wooden coffins. Women stand, gathered together, rocking, weeping, holding each other; some CU of their mourning. Some brief, gruesome views of the bodies, including children. Alone, wailing old woman clasps her hands in despair. (Anti-Bolshevist propaganda) Mangled bodies.

Note(s)

  • See also Story 81, Film ID 140, Story 111, Film ID 145, and Story 278, Film ID 201 for duplicate footage.

Subjects

  • COFFINS
  • ATROCITIES
  • CHILDREN
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
  • LATVIA
  • CIVILIANS
  • MASSACRES
  • CORPSES
  • WOMEN
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-SOVIET)
  • SOVIET UNION
  • COMMUNISTS

Places

  • , Soviet Union
  • Riga, Latvia

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.

Copies