News Film - The Week in Film: Opening of mass graves near Zemiansky Kostolany in the presence of SS soldier Palkinger who had participated in the killing of civilians.

Photographs of mass graves at Dora-Mittelbau being viewed by local German residents of Nordhausen.

First edition. ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Met literatuuropgaven.

Harold Earl Rossiter, Sr. was born on 7 August 1915 in Rochester, New York. During World War II he served with the United States Army and was among the soldiers who landed at the beach in Normandy. Additionally, he was among the soldiers that discovered the mass grave of prisoners executed at Gardelegen. Harold received five bronze star medals and was discharged with the rank of Corporal. After the ...

Met lit. opg. en index. XII, 394 p. ; 23 cm.

Master thesis Holocaust- and Genocide studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 79 bl. ; 30 cm.

Somber looking men with flags. The bald man on whom the camera focuses and who gives the speech is Jozef Cyrankiewicz, head of the Polish Socialist Party and later head of the Polish government. An Auschwitz survivor, he had been active in the Polish resistance and was arrested in 1941. 06:18:47 Unidentified man speaking, crowd watches. 06:09:57 Tombstone uncovered, Cyrankiewicz places a medal on the ...

This collection contains questionnaires distributed by various Polish courts to districts and provinces and to municipal authorities near the sites of concentration camps and ghettos in Poland. The questionnaires request information about mass executions and mass graves.

MA thesis Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam. 61 bladen. ; 30 cm.

Czech newsreel footage of men digging into the dirt at Terezin. One with SS insignia on the back of his shirt. Men dig and shovel dirt into small wheelbarrows which other laborers wheel away. They continue to dig. At the bottom of the pits are decaying bodies (mass graves). The men use smaller tools to delicately unearth and exhume the bodies. Another worker has the SS insignia on his pant leg. Captured ...

1st ed. 334 p. : ill., krt. ; 22 cm

Introduction - Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus Part I: Agents 1. Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in the American West - Tony Platt 2. Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor books - Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and foreigners ended official silence about ...

Picture is extremely dark and it is difficult to make out what it is - could be piles of bodies at a camp near a barbed wire fence or some kind of military encampment. Interior of a trailer with a personal effects (gloves, photograph of a woman hanging by the window, books, pistol and holster) possibly belonging to a SS officer (1945). Outside, soldiers unload a truck in Rippig, Germany with framed ...

(LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and ...

(LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and ...

David Leon Ichelson (1921-2008) was born on 12 October 1921 in San Francisco, California to Maury and Selene Ichelson. He serived with the 71st Infantry Division and was a witness to the liberation of Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen.

German Killing of Jewish Slave Labor, Neuenberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: German civilians are assembled and marched to graves of murdered Jews. Seq: German men and women in teams of four carry decomposed bodies in open pine boxes from woods through town streets to cemetery. VS, townspeople as they walk past open coffins. CUs, facial expressions of townspeople. LS, bodies awaiting burial as civilians ...

Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany. EXT, LS, pile of decomposed bodies. LS, German civilians opening mass grave. CU, partially exhumed body. MS, German civilians removing a body from a mass grave. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. CU, several decomposed bodies. MS, pile of bodies. CU, decomposed bodies. CU, decomposed face of a slave laborer (dead). MS, German civilians carrying a body on a stretcher. LS, ...

"Historians have only recently established the scale of the violence carried out by the supporters of General Franco during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. An estimated 88,000 unidentified victims of Francoist violence remain to be exhumed from mass graves and given a dignified burial, and for decades, the history of these victims has also been buried. This volume brings together a range ...

"In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical ...

(LIB 6745) Mass murder burial, Namering(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: A woman and two children walking in field; woman searching in ruins, holding up bits of burned clothing and bones. CUs, woman and children. SEQ: Burial of slave laborers exhumed from mass graves. German civilians nail wooden coffins, load them on wagons, lower coffins into graves. Men and women shovel dirt over coffins in graves. ...

"During recent decades, forensic investigation has become a standard response to the reality of mass graves resulting from genocides and various forms of political violence. From Argentina to Rwanda, from former Yugoslavia to Poland, the search for the sites of mass burial, the application of archaeological and forensic practices, and the use of advanced technologies to collect and analyse evidence ...