Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
See catalog #534087 for identical footage w/English VO. Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors: Soviet Army documentary on Auschwitz concentration camp liberation. Footage contains graphic images. This version of the film was shown to German viewers (German language titles and narration.).
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
MS the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign over main entrance of camp. Road barrier arm w/ sign "HALT" rises. Shot looking straight down the area between the double barbed wire fences around the camp. CU sign "6000 Volt Raum Vorsicht Lebensgefahr" - warning of the high voltage of the electrified fence. More close shots of things related to the electric fence, box with "ZAUM" (fence) on it, meters above, switches controlling electricity, the wires on the fence themselves. Another shot of both fences.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Several CUs and MSs of the women in barracks. CUs of a few as VO gives their names (Polish surnames) and ages (50s-60s).
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
DO NOT USE: CU a hand turns pages of a photo album w/ portraits and snapshots (belonging to prisoners, presumably) as VO gives long list of nationalities that were represented.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
MLS panning on group of men women and children in prison uniforms with blankets wrapped round them, stand behind fence. VO tells of Soviet soldiers liberating camp, explaining to people that they are free, "free forever." MCU some prisoners including 2 men with bandaged heads. CU of a man who looks very old; VO says he is 42.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Dead bodies outside a barracks. MLS Yugoslavian woman and little Czech girl stand at door of barrcks with bodies on the ground nearby; cut to MLS emaciated corpses; back to the woman and child who walk toward and past cam. MS prisoners walking past.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
Prisoners helping weaker prisoners walk out of the barracks, or carrying them out on stretchers. A crowd of inmates walking toward camera. MS/MCUs Red Army officers talking to 2 women and a boy. VO says they are the family of a Yugoslav government leader, Dr. Anton Mandich (sp?).
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
MSs CUs prisoners coming out of a women's barracks; one woman has what looks like a nurse's cap on with her prisoner uniform; there is a horse-drawn cart in the BG. Male prisoners walking across yard. The 2 Soviet soldiers walking with the Yugoslav family. Var shots of groups of prisoners walking, coming out of buildings, a few carried on stretchers.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
MS of a woman on a stretcher being lifted onto a cart by a 3 prisoners - 2 men with Red Cross armbands and woman with nurse's cap. Shot looking through fence at horse-drawn carts leaving carrying weak prisoners. MS prisoners carrying the weak out of barracks.
Auschwitz (Oswiecim) PT2 - Camp Compound & Survivors
MS prisoners carrying the weak out of camp gates. GV stream of horse drawn carts transporting people out of camp.