ID

FBW000649      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1982

Original Title

Demjanjuk

Other Title(s)

The Demjanjuk Trial: A Moment in History

Produced by

JBD

Staff

Narration: Alan Zeitlinger

Appearance

John Demjanjuk; Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer SS, Innenminister); Eliahu Rosenberg; Pinchas Epstein

Mentioned

Adolf Eichmann (Head of the Judenreferat)

Length

15'

Format

farbe

Abstract

Survey of the 1981 trial in the United States which ended with John Demjanjuk being stripped of his citizenship. Includes the appearence of the original Trawnicki identity card. Footage and stills of battle, Treblinka and partisans. Testimony of survivors.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; 1980-1989; Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Demjanjuk trial; Executions; Survivors of the Holocaust; War criminals; Post-war trials; Russian prisoners of war; Treblinka; Ukrainians; USA; World War II

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 15'

Bibliography

- Skirball, Sheba F.: Films of the Holocaust. An Annotated Filmography of Collections in Israel. New York, NY: Garland, 1990

Contents (detailed)

Shotlist (- ft):
- 000 Ukrainian and Jewish demonstrators in front of the general court
- 021 General Court building
- 021 CU: Demjanjuk
- 025 Segment from "Liberation of Auschwitz":
- 028 Prisoners in camp
- 032 German soldiers taking Russian POW's
- 037 CREDITS
- 048 Russian POW's
- 055 German soldiers in battle
- 057 Himmler giving awards to SS volunteers
- 061 Map of Treblinka and the surroundings
- 062 GV: Concentration Camp
- 063 Russian army in battle
- 073 Demjanjuk's ID card as SS guard
- 080 Demjanjuk today and as immigrant to the US (Stills)
- 090 Sketches made during the trial
- 107 Victim's belongings ("Liberation of Auschwitz")
- 115 The camp today
- 118 Group of naked women (Still)
- 123 Sketch of Eliahu Rosenberg, a witness
- 126 Deportations: people get on train
- 131 A riding train
- 135 The camp and its crematorium (Stills)
- 138 Man wearing a star (Still)
- 139 Jews pray as Germans laugh at them (Still)
- 141 Corpses (Stills)
- 146 SS officers at the railway station
- 149 Eichmann (Still)
- 150 Women led to gas chambers as the orchestra plays
- 153 Operation apparatus of the gas chamber
- 155 Can of Zyklon B gas
- 157 Guard holding a club
- 160 Prisoners hanging by their hands
- 162 Execution near Libau
- 165 Trial sketch
- 167 The ID card
- 170 Women prisoners in camp
- 172 SS officer (Still)
- 173 Naked women (Still)
- 174 Sketch of witness, Pinchas Epstein
- 177 Crematorium chimney
- 182 Entrance to court room
- 184 Sketch of the defense attorney
- 187 Map of USSR
- 189 Document
- 194 Demonstration of Ukrainians
- 196 Trial sketches
- 200 The Original ID card
- 217 St. Vladimir's church in Parma
- 263 Court's sentence
- 270 CREDITS
- 284 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem