(black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway ...

The collection consists of 91 sketches by Lili Andrieux depicting life in several internment camps and collection centers in France from 1941-1942: Camp de Gurs 1940 - 1941; Police Center Hotel Terminus du Port, Marseille - 1942; Les Milles - 1942.

Glenn Howard Burghardt was born on July 9, 1919, in Jamestown, New York, to Frank and Lydia Kenyon Burghardt. Glenn graduated from Lockport High School in 1938 and enlisted in the United States Army the next year. Glenn's first station was Schofield Barracks in O'ahu, Hawaii, the mobile defense station for the island and the naval base at Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, Glenn watched as Japanese ...

The Walter Saunders papers contains correspondence with Walter’s parents while they were in Marseille and Les Milles. The documents contain reference letters, naturalization certificate, and an Austrian citizenship certificate. The photographs include portraits of Paul and Klara while at Auschwitz, a group photo with Paul at Camp Gurs, a young Walter with his brother Kurt, and a younger Paul while ...

The Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence consists primarily of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Margaret Klein from her parents and sister in Heidelberg and then Gurs, Les Milles, Nexon, and Masseube. The correspondence documents the family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States, money and parcels received by the family members in the camps through Quaker and Swiss relief agencies and ...

A Crown Film Unit Production. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, Displaced Persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, guarded by a soldier. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; ...

Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received ...

Titles read: Um Resultado da guerra. Descito por aimbere. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, displaced persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, a soldier guards them. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; ...

The Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers consist of biographical materials, camp documents, and emigration and immigration records documenting the Seligmanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Biographical materials include identification papers, German and Belgian registration certificates, ...

Natan Lakhovitzky (born, Simferapol, 17 August 1902, died 24 August 1992) and Vera Lakhovitzky, nee Strachinsky (born Odessa, 1 February 1905, died 24 May 1973) left the Soviet Union in January 1927. Since they were unable to obtain a rabbinical wedding there in Russia, they were married in Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 June 1927, and immigrated to France the following year, arriving in Strasbourg in October ...

Correspondence, photographs, documents and artworks relating to the family of Otto and Elly (Meyerhoff) Abendstern and their son Peter Abendstern (later Aldin) as well as Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. Chiefly related to Otto's internment in camps in south France, Elly and Peter's time in hiding in France during the war, and Fleischmann's internment at Camps Les Milles and Saint Nicolas ...

Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer, 1924-2016) was born in Freiburg, Germany to a Jewish family. She fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 where she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the Holocaust, she worked as a research analyst for the American military during the International Military Tribunal ...

Jacques Bodnar was the youngest of three sons of a Jewish family in Vienna. One of his brothers was able to get to Turkey and wait out the war there, the other went to Palestine before the Anschluss. Jacques and his parents were in Vienna, and were trying to get papers to get out. After the Anschluss, arrangements were made to get Jacques to Switzerland, and he was held in a labor camp in Schaffhausen. ...

EXT, traveling shot on a lake or a river. MCU, destroyed plane in clearing, destroyed army camp. VS, destroyed buildings, rubble, etc. 00:19:04 Barracks at Dachau? (unclear if these buildings were part of a camp or a farm). VS, unidentified town, buildings, bell tower, some civilians walking around. CU, bundles (probably victims' belongings) laying on ground in front of building, American soldiers ...

Collection of artwork created by multiple artists including Karl Schwesig and other artists in various French internment camps including St. Cyprien and Les Milles; dated c. 1940-1941

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The Heilbronn and Wertheim families papers consist of correspondence to German Jewish immigrants Hugo and Else Heilbronn in Pennsylvania from their Heilbronn and Wertheim family members in Germany, England, Belgium, and Rhodesia and French concentration camps at Gurs and Les Milles; correspondence arranging aid for relatives in Germany and France; and a 2005 newspaper article in which Ruth Gottlieb, ...

Ralph Sommer (1926-1988) was born Rolf Sommer to Moses Sommer and Flora Bloch Sommer. He was born and raised in Königheim, Germany. Flora was able to obtain a visa to travel to the United States through her sister Betty and husband Leo Hanauer, and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Moses and Ralph continued to live in France. During the occupation, both were sent to Camp des Milles in ...

Manfred Haber (later Fred Haber, 1925-2018) was born on 8 March 1925 in Vienna, Austria to Raphael Haber and Dora Seidler Haber. His father Raphael (1881-1942) was born on 18 March 1889 in Panka, Romania to Moses Haber and Chaje Eisinger Haber. He had six siblings and worked as a typesetter. Manfred’s mother Dora (1896-1942) was born on 1 December 1896 in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to Salomon ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Judy Pitson

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

MS of soldier at valve controls of water heater for Mobile Bath Unit. He is member of Airborne Forces. Puts hose in water. MLS departing ambulances with pile of hoses in foreground, survivors, mostly women, milling about camp, with watchtower in background. Women collect water from communal faucets. CU, woman filling a basin with tap water.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Bertha Strauss

United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to ...