Military and Resistance panels
Creator(s)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Council
- United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Scope and Content
Questions on Military panel. 01:04:35 Resistance panel begins with Chairman Frank Lautenberg. 01:08:40 Louis de Jong, historian. Talks on Dutch resistance. (p. 126 "Liberation of Camps") 01:22:21 Renee Aubry, speaks in French, Chief of Cabinet in Ministry of Veterans; widow of resistance fighter. Talks on resistance from France and within the camps. (p. 128 "Liberation of Camps") 01:32:00 Frode Jakobsen, resistance fighter from Denmark. Talks about resistance in Denmark, political and moral freedom. (p. 129 "Liberation of Camps") 01:42:50 Branko Lakic, partisan fighter from Yugoslavia. Discusses the Yugoslav role in war, figures of wounded, killed, etc. (p. 131 "Liberation of Camps") 01:51:34 Samuel Gruber, Polish partisan. Describes joining partisan and actions taken against Germans (p. 132 "Liberation of Camps") 02:00:43 Benjamin Meed, survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. Cuts off (p. 133 "Liberation of Camps")
Note(s)
Repeats Film ID 2650 and then continues for another 20 minutes of the Resistance panel. 1" master video reel stored with USHMM Institutional Records in the USHMM Archives.
The International Liberators Conference took place at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. from October 26-28, 1981. The conference was sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. A publication titled "The Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps 1945" (1987) summarizes the testimonies.
Subjects
- YUGOSLAVIA
- WARSAW GHETTO
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
- FRANCE
- CONFERENCE (LIBERATORS, 1981)
- POLAND
- RESISTERS/RESISTANCE
- POLES
- DENMARK
- PARTISANS
- NETHERLANDS
Places
- Washington, DC, United States
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film