us-005578-irn1000340
type: RecordSet
date: Summer 1941, 1941 August 06
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 851
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1000340
note: BA shotlist indicates this is Reel 2A, not Reel 3.
scope and content: VAR extreme poverty in Smolensk, USSR. Sick young children and babies lying in poorly-lit, grim room. Flies crawl on them. They are tended by two kerchiefed women. EXT pans of more young children, naked, on cloths on the ground. They are emaciated, crying or sleeping, crawling with flies. Ragged children, women, and men (probably refugees), walk along a dirt road in rural town, carrying bundles, some leading dray horses, cows. (Some children smile, they are walking toward camera.)
title: Poverty in Smolensk