us-005578-irn1000233
type: RecordSet
date: 1945 April 24
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000233
scope and content: Street sign surrounded by lilacs:"Belsen: Kreis Celle Reg. Rez. Lueneburg" Bathing internees. Big crowd of survivor women queued up by table, signing forms and receiving new identity cards. Helped by Parisian woman who takes their names and other information. British"squaddie" wave and help women board truck. Waving from back of truck as it drives by. Camera pans from one communal grave to the next, all ten marked by posts: Grave No. 1 Approx. 1,000, 22nd April 1945; Grave No. 2 Approx. 5,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 3 Approx. 5,000, 24th April 1945; Grave No. 4 Approx. 2,000, 27th April 1945; Grave No. 5 Approx. 1,000, 23rd April 1945; Grave No. 6 Approx. 800, 26th April 1945; Grave No. 8 Approx. 1,000, 30 April 1945; Grave No. 7 Approx. 800, ? April 1945. Pan across, cut to flat ground behind simple signs. Grave No. 9 No. Unknown, April 1945. Grave No. 10 No. Unknown, April 1945. Fast pan across deserted southern end of camp, barracks, watchtower. Cut to LS from above, British boarding tractor, that proceeds to bulldoze barbed wire and some striped uniforms, etc. Clothing/tents littered all around ground.
title: Women internees leave Belsen