Sign: Maros Utca 16 (address). Sign: X-ray. Exhumation by hospital. VO: Infamous hospital where the Arrow Cross committed murders. Mass graves exhumed in hospital garden. They killed helpless patients in their beds along with doctors and nurses. Former Arrow Cross members (waiting for trials) watch exhumation. CUs intercut with exhumation shots.

Chaplain Takes Over, Deggendorf, Germany, May 4, 1945. EXTs, Lt Col Father Crain of the 4th US Armored Division exits from building and speaks to German chaplain captured with two German Colonels. Burial of Dead, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 7, 1945. Seq: German civilians bury dead of Woebbelin concentration camp. LS, bodies laid out near graves. At the back of each grave is a large wooden cross. LS, ...

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(LIB 6509) Burial of Atrocity Camp Victims, Schwerin, Germany, May 7-8, 1945 MSs, CUs, German civilians digging graves in park area. CU, German uniformed policeman. LS, crowd at burial ceremony. MCUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains conduct burial services. CUs, Germans view bodies. CUs, bodies in graves covered with dirt.

Includes bibliographical references and index. xv, 135 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm

Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany during WWII. The photos document exhumed corpses from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany that was discovered by US troops on April 28, 1945; American officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either ...

Spr. Frank Chapman was a British sapper and bulldozer driver with the 619 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, during the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Germany in April 1945. His military ID number was 14322433. He returned from the war, married and owned an ice cream shop in Hawes, Yorkshire, England. He was involved in several remembrance events in England, Belgium, and Germany and returned to Bergen-Belsen ...

Nazi men dragging corpses by the feet to a mass grave/pit, more bodies in the grave, preparing for burial. Supervised by armed British solders in FG.

The seven slides depict rabbis attending to the individual reburial of bodies found in an exhumed mass grave. The grave, located near Gibalskiego Street in Warsaw, Poland, contained approximately 300 bodies of Poles and Jews who were murdered between 1940 and 1944.

The Leo Parenti collection consists of a black and white photograph of female corpses lying on the ground near the Helmbrechts concentration camp. Helmsbrechts is a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp. The photograph was taken by a member of the 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division, United States Army immediately after the discovery of the mass grave in 1944. Leo Parenti was present at the discovery ...

The Munn Nigro photograph collection consists of nine photographs of corpses from the massacre at Gardelegen, Germany taken by Munn Nigro, April 1945. Many of the photographs depict German citizens from surrounding villages burying the dead in mass graves supervised by American soldiers. Captions in English stamped on the verso.

Reel 1: 00:08:42 Officers and soldiers in conversation, smoking. Line of soldiers on motorcycles moving down a dusty road, followed by other military vehicles. An open car stops and two officers climb in. Views of numerous German military vehicles driving down a dusty road. 00:11.23 Mass of Soviet POWs in ravine, bread thrown down to them by Germans and Soviet civilian women. Scores of men scrambling ...

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Kiev suburbs, December of 1943. German prisoners are digging the ditch, where tortured Soviet people were buried. One of the former camp prisoners tells about fascist crimes during the Kiev occupation.

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower ...

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in ...

Contains ten black-and-white copyprints of photographs of Nordhausen concentration camp taken by James C. Ernest, a member of Company A of the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion, shortly after liberation in April 1945. The photographs contain images of victims' bodies and burial of victims in mass graves by German citizens.

(LIB 6688) Patton and Russians, Regensburg, Germany and Linz, Austria, May 14, 1945 MSs, Gen. George S. Patton and staff entering plane at Regensburg. MS, Gen. Patton greeted by Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker at Linz airport. MSs, CUs, Patton and Walker talking to news correspondent Doris Duke Cromwell. VAR, Patton and Russian Marshal Tolbuhkin at his heaquarters. Patton and Tolbuhkin reviewing Russian ...

Rev. Leslie Hardman was a British Army Chaplain at the liberation of Belsen.

Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, ...

Corpses at Nordhausen. US medical crews evacuate survivors. MS, corpses. Survivors assisted onto litters, evacuated for treatment, man praying/crying, eating, loaded onto ambulances. Victims buried in a common grave by German civilians, corpses carried (gruesome), priest at jeep. Civilians march with shovels. Soldiers stand by mass graves. Red Cross workers feed soup to Hannover survivors. CUs, men ...