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Info: 16mm or 35mm film material, shot in Poland, most likely between 1942 and 1944, exact location unknown. Often referred to as WFDIF material.
Quote from Film History: "DEPORTATION OF POLISH JEWS (A: USHMM) / ZYDZI POLSCY / THE POLISH JEWS / JUDENDEPORTATION IN POLEN (A: BA). 16 (?) and 35 mm, b/w. 8 min. Segment from a postwar 16 mm archival compilation with added musical score produced by the former Documentary and Feature Film Studio (WFdiF), Warsaw, Poland. Source material lost and provenance unknown. This compilation footage is among the most commonly used materials and is routinely seen in historical documentaries."
Info: 35 b/w material shot by a Soviet film crew shortly after the liberation of the concentration camps in Auschwitz, compiled into an educational short film called Oswiecim.
Info: 16mm b/w material shot in the spring of 1944 in a Transit camp for Jews in the occupied Netherlands near the village of Westerbork. It shows the deportation of Dutch Jews and Sinti on May 19, 1944. It is not clear who operated the camera. Possibly inmates were involved in the shooting, but the film was commissioned by camp commander Gemmeker, who made sure it survived the war. The complete materials are roughly 150 minutes; the edited part of it is often called "Westerborkfilm".