Orphans of Buchenwald/Ex-Prisoners Coming Home/Air Views HQ and Camps (1945)

This film is silent.
National Archives Identifier: 18613
Local Identifier: 111-ADC-4812
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Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
Series: Moving Images Relating to Military Activities
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
This item was produced or created: June 17 & 19, 1945
Scope and Content: This silent unedited footage shows survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp departing for Switzerland by train, including Lilly Engelman Ebert, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Nazi death marches. Ebert was identified by her great-grandson using a copy of this film available on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Read more about this film and other moving image records related to the Holocaust at the National Archives Unwritten Record blog:
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From the U.S. Army Signal Corps original description:
LIB 7016 - ORPHANS OF BUCHENWALD
Buchenwald, Germany - 19 June 1945
Children who were made orphans by the Germans at Buchenwald Concentration Camp are sorted into small groups by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration personnel.
LIB 7017 - EX-PRISONERS COMING HOME
Buchenwald, Germany - 19 June 1945
Jewish orphans of various nationalities enter train which will transport them to Switzerland.
PARIS 77 - AIR VIEWS HQ AND CAMPS
Rheims and Mailly Subarea Assembly Command
Rheims, France - 17 June 1945
AV, AAC HQ, Camp Norfolk, Camp Atlanta, Camp New Orleans, Camp Miami, Camp San Antonio and Mailly Subarea HQ.
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