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Steamship passengers, including many Displaced Persons and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, arrive in New York
The steamship, "SS Marine Flasher," arrives in the port of New York, after steaming from Bremen, Germany. In addition to U.S. citizens, her passengers include many refugees, and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who benefited from President Truman's directive of December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Views among the crowds gathered at the dock to welcome loved ones. People waving and smiling. One woman angrily shouting at a guard. Men, women, and children aboard the ship, many wearing identification ribbons. Passengers enter the dock area. Their relatives and friends greet them warmly. A man kisses a woman and weeps. Two men embrace. (World War II period).
Displaced Persons, refugees, and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps arrive by ship in New York City
Views of men, women, and children aboard the steamship "SS "Marine Flasher" docked at a pier in New York harbor after a voyage from Bremen, Germany. Her passengers include many refugees and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Many benefited from U.S. Presidential Directive No. 29, issued on December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. A woman with her child smiles. A boy waves at friends and relatives on shore. A young brother and sister in the ship. An older and younger woman, likely mother and daughter, show the prisoner number tattooed by Nazis on their arms. The tattoos are sequentially numbered, A-26587 and A-26588. Reuniting people hold each other with warmth and weep. A family of 7 children spanning a range of ages, with no parents evident. (Note: this is the Weber family ranging in age from 4-18. In order of age from oldest to youngest they are Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and Virginia (Ginger) nee Bela. The family settled in Chicago. All married and had 24 children and now numerous grandchildren. The children and grandchildren live in across the U.S. in Chicago, Maryland, Texas, Alabama, California, Virginia, Minnesota and in London, England. This Information provided in 2014, by Lynn Chapman daughter of Gertrude.) (World War II period).
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of Nazi atrocities, from Terezin and Karlovy Vary prison camps in Czech.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of Nazi atrocities in World War 2, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia. German prisoners of war work in graves with shovels exhuming bodies of Czech patriots who were concentration camp victims. Dead bodies lifted on the litter by prisoners. Bodies taken for identification. Dead bodies kept on wooden platforms in a yard for doctors' identification.
Prisoners take out corpses of Czech patriots, from Terezin and Karlovy Vary prison camps and doctors identify them, in Czechoslovakia
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of World War II Nazi German atrocities, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary prison camps in Czechoslovakia. Officers of Military Police, prisoners of war and other enlisted men take the bodies of the concentration camp victims out of mass graves for their identification. Piles of dead bodies taken out of the mass graves. Prisoners take out corpses, doctor doing identification tests in dead body. Prisoners take bodies in coffins for burial. Number of coffins for reburial at a ceremony.
Dead bodies of Czech patriots from Terezin prison camps, doctors identify them and soldiers during their reburial, in Czechoslovakia.
Exhumation of Czech patriots, the victims of atrocities by Nazi German forces, from Terezin (Theresienstadt Ghetto) and Karlovy Vary concentration camps in Czechoslovakia in World War II. Prisoners dig the mass graves and take out dead bodies of Czech patriots. Dead bodies inside the graves in deteriorated condition. Workers pull out the dead bodies. A worker sprays water to clear mud from the faces of bodies for identification. A doctor examines the bodies. Dead bodies on wooden platforms kept for identification. Reburial of dead bodies keeping them in flower decked coffins. Soldiers lower rifle and salute as the coffins lowered in graves.
Inspection by Congressman Chelf from Kentucky and others, of Displaced Prisoners' (DP) Camp in Eschwege, Germany.
Congressional inspection of Displaced Prisoners' Camp in Eschwege, Germany in the year after World War 2 ended in Germany. Congressman Frank L Chelf, Kentucky; consultant to congress man Walter M Basterdman and others along with press photographers visit the camps. A herd of pigs inside one of the camps. The visiting party walks out of one of the camp and observe others. A crowd of people watch them. Dignitaries visit various houses and camps and talk to each other. A burnt Quonset hut in the camp.
