Liberation of Auschwitz Documentary - Part 6 of 11

Auschwith-Birkenau was probably the most infamous concentration camp of the Holocaust. It was liberated by Soviet troops in 1944 and a large proportion of the footage included was filmed by the Soviet cameraman Alexander Voronsin, who also contribute with an interview. The Programme is introduced by Simon Wiesental and is an account of some of the Second World War's worst atrocities, and the reasons behind them. 10:24:14:00 Piles of shoes - glasses - dentures and gold teeth - brushes and other items - prayer shawls 10:26:03:00 Goods looted from deportation trains - Polish mayor shown bags of human hair - stills bald people 10:28:02:00 Human hair - burnt bodies - severed head in previous fire - stills of SS leaders who served in the camp 10:29:15:00 Prisoners family albums - stills from a SS man's album of prisoners and life in the camp 10:32:15:00 Polish nurse shows Soviet reporters a mass grave filled with bodies, incl. babies