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Lorna J. Adelman joined her husband, Gilbert, in Wiesbaden, Germany after World War II from 1946 to 1948. Gil was a dentist with the United States Army. They worked in a hospital and assisted displaced persons.

(LIB 6492) Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommerin, Germany (now the site of the Hagenow Memorial to the Wöbbelin Camp Victims). LS of German civilians digging rows of graves. Closer shots showing white-sheeted corpses beside each grave. American soldiers wander among the rows, watching the Germans. 02:26:50 German civilians unload large white crosses (grave markers) from a wagon. Three former prisoners, ...

Reel 6: Torchlight procession, fireworks display, and Hitler visiting youth camps and speaking. Night rally in Nuremberg. SA units. Fireworks. Youth day: Hitler Youth (HJ) boys drumming, playing other instruments, CUs crowds of boys. Hitler enters stadium, boys look on and cheer. More shots of band playing, Nazi officials (including Hitler, Goebbels) look on. Hitler salutes boys. Baldur von Schirach ...

Menachem Shapiro was born in the DP camp Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy on June 21, 1946 to Hannah Buz (b. 1912) and Moshe Shapiro (b.1906) both from Shavli, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire.) Hannah and Moshe and had one daughter, Rivka, born in 1938. Moshe worked at a wood processing plant. Hannah and Moshe were sent to the Shavli ghetto in July 1941; Riva was sent to Auschwitz in November ...

Title: "A Visit to a Camp Near Minsk" Heinrich Himmler visits Minsk and a concentration camp near Minsk. Himmler with group of German officers, including Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Karl Wolff, Otto Bradfisch (Leader of Einsatzkommando 8, Einsatzgruppe B). Minsk streets. Greets small line of uniformed men and salutes people on balcony. His car leaves city. MS Himmler seated in car, Bach-Zelewski far ...

(LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and ...

(LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and ...

11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping ...

04:38:03 Visit of House Judiciary Committee, Vienna, Austria, September 20, 1949. CU, Tulln AFB sign. Congressmen leaving plane and greeted by Brig Gen Jesmond D Balmer and others. John G Erhardt, American Minister to Austria, posing with group. Cut-ins, various Congressmen; cars leaving field. LS, American Legation building. Balmer arriving at American Legation. Congressman William T Byrne arriving. ...

The collection of four photographs relating to the Steven Gure's experiences during the Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania, and St. Ottilian DP camp in Germany: black and white image of boy (donor at age 2-3) seated with ball and teddy bear, Kaunas, Lithuania; black and white image of boy (donor at age 10-11) and young woman (donor's sister Anne Gure) standing outside, St. Ottilian DP camp, Germany, dated ...

Liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany. MCUs, Trucks lined up outside of camp, French prisoners getting out and standing beside trucks, waiting to go home; trucks leaving camp with prisoners waving and signing. HASs prisoners walking around camp and courtyard. MCUs, MSs, pile of corpses, funeral wreaths of pine and ribbon hanging on each side of window. MLS, MS, flags erected ...

Geve (b. 1929) describes his childhood in Berlin and his deportation in 1942 to Auschwitz. He was selected for training as a construction worker, together with Jewish and non-Jewish teenage boys from all over Europe. The school was in the base camp, where conditions were slightly better than in Birkenau, and the treatment of the boys was relatively benign; nevertheless they suffered from starvation, ...