Jews and other refugees moving into the USSR
Creator(s)
- Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (Krasnogorsk)
Scope and Content
Shot of a Soviet border guard on a bridge at the border between the Soviet Union and Romania after the Soviet Union seized northern Bukovina in 1940. Long shot of a mass of refugees waiting to cross the border into the Soviet Union. Refugees, including Jews, move across a bridge from Romania to what is now the Soviet Union. Close-up on a Jewish family as they show their papers to a guard before they cross the bridge. The guard smiles and shakes hands with the couple. Shot of refugees running across the bridge.
Subjects
- PASSPORTS
- SOVIET UNION
- BORDERS/CROSSINGS
- JEWS
- REFUGEES
- REFUGEES (JEWISH)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET)
Places
- , Soviet Union
- , Bukovina
- , Romania
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film