Displaced persons; Czech film

Identifier
irn1001456
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2338
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • O.S. Halberg (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

01:01:19 (LIB 6067) Displaced Persons, Menden, Germany. Crowd of DPs with white armbands. MSs, CUs queue outside of mess hall. INT, DPs being served soup into canteens. "Camp Commandant" quarters. Woman greets camp leader. MSs, CUs, "Displaced Persons" sign on tree. HSs, DPs walk around camp grounds, conversing, some walk arm in arm. EXT, hospital with Red Cross flag. INT, doctors examine emaciated patients. Child on bed, forced to eat. Other ill women on beds. DPs lounge at entrance to building. Women disinfected. Band, woman with guitar. Circus wheel on camp road. INT, barracks, gathered on hay bales, table and chairs (dark). Playing soccer. HAS, blankets spread on lawn. HASs, crowd of DPs gathers for camera. 01:08:31 (LIB 6068) Czech Film, Dunkirk, France. Railway station. "Dunkerque" road sign. Pan to dirt road.

Subjects

  • RED CROSS
  • WOMEN
  • SOUP
  • WOUNDED
  • DOCTORS
  • SPORTS/GAMES
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • FRANCE
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • EATING
  • HOSPITALS
  • BANDS
  • GERMANY
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
  • CROWDS

Places

  • , Germany
  • , France

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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