Lemberg/Lvov massacre

Identifier
irn1000440
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.260.1
  • RG-60.0348
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Bundesarchiv (Germany). Filmarchiv

Scope and Content

Brief HA pan of city of Lvov. In bright sun, Jewish men (some bearded, with yarmulkes) are forced to carry and lay out the bodies of those murdered by the GPU/NKVD [not Jewish victims]. Very gruesome: some corpses have no heads, some are bloated, disintegrating bodies. MS pans of bodies splayed out. SS soldiers look on, clutching kerchiefs to their mouths.

Note(s)

  • See Story 267, Film ID 201 for similar footage. During the Lvov/Lemberg massacre of June, 1941, the retreating Soviets killed several thousand mostly Ukrainian nationalist prisoners who were being held in several prisons throughout Lvov. The Germans blamed the massacre on the Jews and used the NKVD's atrocity as propaganda to incite a pogrom in which over 4,000 Jews were killed. A further 7,000 Jews were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen. Historical information on Lvov massacre taken from Photo Archives database.

Subjects

  • ATROCITIES
  • USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
  • SPECTATORS
  • JEWS
  • GERMANY
  • MASSACRES
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • POLES
  • FORCED LABOR
  • CORPSES
  • POLAND

Places

  • Lviv (Lvov), Poland
  • Lemberg, Germany
  • , Ukraine

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.

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