Burying the dead

Identifier
irn1001643
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1989.343.1
  • RG-60.0111
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Chronos-Media GmbH

Scope and Content

Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.

Note(s)

  • This story is mostly from the Bundesarchiv. See Story 81, Film ID 140 and Story 283, Film ID 201 for duplicate (better quality) footage. Original film can label reads "Chronos - Yad Vashem / Diskriminierung, Verfolgung u. Gefangennahme von Juden". Film transferred by Chronos in 1980.

Subjects

  • ATROCITIES
  • WOMEN
  • LATVIA
  • BURIALS
  • CORPSES

Places

  • Riga, Latvia

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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