Sutzkever (Yiddish writer) and Szmaglewska (Polish underground member) testify at Nuremberg Trial

Identifier
irn1002254
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.2842
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)

Scope and Content

(Munich 15) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 27, 1946. MLSs, Abraham Sutzkever, a witness who spent two years in a ghetto and joined the partisans in Lithuania. MSs, Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and Justice Francis Biddle making notes at the bench. LS, Justice Lawrence questions Sutzkever. MLS, Seweryna Szmaglewska testifying through an interpreter. The witness was active in the Polish underground.

Note(s)

  • Language: The first testimony is in Russian. In the second testimony, the witness speaks Polish while the translator communicates in Russian.

Subjects

  • INTERPRETERS
  • LITHUANIA
  • SUTZKEVER, ABRAHAM
  • SURVIVORS
  • POLES
  • JUDGES
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • WRITERS
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • GHETTOS
  • GERMANY
  • NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
  • PARTISANS
  • TRIALS

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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