Closing ceremony

Identifier
irn1003286
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.136
  • RG-60.3867
Dates
1 Jan 1981 - 31 Dec 1981
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States Holocaust Memorial Council

Scope and Content

INT, conference room, audience sits, panel prepares to speak. 01:07:02 Rabbi introduces concluding ceremony. 01:10:00 Miles Lerman pays tribute to all those who died. 01:14:11 Moment of silence. Bugler plays taps. 01:15:11 to 01:20:45 Liberator's names are read by Mark Talisman, in recognition by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. 01:21:55 Hank de Jarnet (sp?), a Dachau liberator, accepts scroll in memory of Walter J. Felenz (sp?), Rainbow Division. 01:22:46 Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr. 01:24:10 Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, survivor, member of USHMC, and Malca Swartz (sp?), survivor, perform songs: Partisans' Hymn (in English). "Eternity" (in Yiddish). (more) 01:42:57 Liberators medals presented by Miles Lerman and Elie Wiesel to John Eisenhower; Andre Mernier on behalf of Belgium; Charles Mills Drury on behalf of Canada; Minister Eduard Kukan on behalf of Czechoslovakia; Frode Jakobsen on behalf of Denmark.

Note(s)

  • 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

  • UNITED STATES
  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA
  • SURVIVORS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • DENMARK
  • CONFERENCE (LIBERATORS, 1981)
  • CANTORS
  • BELGIUM
  • LIBERATORS

Places

  • Washington, DC, United States

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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