ID

FBW000542      Newsreel

Country / Year

USA, 1945

Original Title

Buchenwald Labor Camp [25-Apr-1945]

Produced by

US Army Signal Corps

Staff

Camera: [?]

Length

173,74 m / 6'21"

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 25 Apr 1945: Shooting period

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton

Abstract

French survivors being taken home in trucks, waving and singing. Survivors walking around the camp. Piles of the dead. Funeral wreaths and a memorial made by the survivors. Survivors behind barbed wire sleeping on the ground, cooking, and sitting in the sun. Damaged Siemens factory.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Funeral; Buchenwald (Concentration camp); French, the; Survivors of the Holocaust; Corpses; Siemens-Aktiengesellschaft

Holdings

- National Archives, Washington, DC: 173,74 m / 6'21"; 35mm; 18 CS 3855

Materials

- National Archives, Washington, DC; Protokoll

Bibliography

- Gellert, Charles Lawrence: The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board / National Archives and Records Administration, 1989