Summary

Life and death in World War II USSR

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C2803 E
Clip SR002327_01_05.mov
Date 01/01/1942
Title Life and death in World War II USSR
Description [VO Spanish language throughout] VS bombed-out Duma building in Rostov-on-Don / Soviet soldier directing traffic as streetcar passes behind / LS street scene / VS Russian people with newspapers, woman in beret and fur collar / family at hospital door / Cyrillic sign / VS four cribs and babies and nurses; three mothers in hospital beds with one being handed baby / mother and newborn in bed / families at photo exhibit / Photographs of dead babies and one lying in straw, presumably Nazi atrocities / painting of bodies; a malnourished boy with bandaged feet / many people gathered outside digging graves and bodies laid out in two rows; faces of the dead; two manacled, frozen hands; bereft man with body of someone / mother with body / open mass grave / Note: exact month/day not known
Country Soviet Union
City Rostov-on-Don

Keywords

archival
newsreel
World War II
Russian people
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wreckage
ruins
traffic
Soviet military
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Red Army
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street scenes
newspapers
berets
hospitals
maternity
exhibitions
photographs
beds
mothers
babies
bodies
corpses
frozen
mass graves
handcuffs
mourning
sadness
fathers
casualties
atrocities
Cyrillic
signs
Spanish language
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