Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

Identifier
irn1002720
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.621.1
  • RG-60.3824
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

Note(s)

  • See Story 2115, Film ID 2257 for better quality footage and longer shots. See Story 723, Film ID 247 for an earlier version of the same NCJF master. For similar footage of placing corpse in a casket, see Story 2547b, Film ID 248 (those shots are much better quality and more gruesome).

Subjects

  • GHETTOS
  • POLAND
  • PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
  • COFFINS
  • CORPSES
  • CARTS/WAGONS
  • JEWS
  • WARSAW GHETTO

Places

  • Warsaw, Poland

Genre

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