"Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. ...

Contains information about Irving Lisman's (b. 1912) experiences as a ambulance driver in the 122nd Medical Battalion of the 42nd United States Infantry Division during the liberation of Dachau.

The collection contains two scrapbooks documenting the wartime experiences of Col. Donald Q. Coster, who served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France in 1940, served with the Navy in North Africa, 1941-1945, and the Office of Strategic Service (O.S.S.) in Belgium in 1945. The first scrapbook documents his capture and eventual release by the German army near Amiens, France ...

"Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 2, the ambulance column arrives. Memorial day for E V Ringmann, ambulance driver who was killed in an allied aircraft, whose casket is loaded onto a railroad car. Norwegian paramedic team. Doctors examine the new arrivals. Women with naked torsos show their tattoo marks. Naked ...

American soldiers drive tanks through a town on their way to Avranches, in Normandy. A long line of American military vehicles is greeted by a few civilians on the roadside. Scenes of Americans passing columns of German POWs on dusty roads, with destroyed buildings visible. The POWs walk with their hands clasped behind their heads. German prisoners receive medical care (a plasma IV) from American medics. ...

Stichting Beheer Collectie Airborne Museum > Nummers 6000-6999 > Vier verslagen van George D. Thompson, 113 Field Ambulance toegevoegd aan 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, 1939-1944. Kopie.

Political Prisoners' Concentration Camp, Langenstein, Germany, April 18, 1945. MSs, sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and placed in ambulance. MSs, CUs, unburied bodies of the dead lie in an open pit. MSs, Maj Gen Raymond S. McLain, CG of the XIX Corps, looking into the pit. VS, group of US officers and Gen McLain inspect camp. MS, Pan, deceased prisoners lying in open pit. MSs, several ...

06:12:46 Reel 2: "Activities in European Theater of Operations" In Germany, Schweinfurt citizens gather in courtyard. Confiscated art, belongings, etc. German male civilians march in columns in streets to be screened by US counter-intelligence. Cached gold and art treasures emoved from Merkers salt mine. Nordhausen citizens loot shops, walk through streets, stopped by armed US soldiers, forced to surrender ...

Arthur L. Zegart (1917-1989) was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he was part of a U.S. Army Air Force combat photography unit. He covered postwar relief and refugee efforts by UNRRA and the JDC in Czechoslovakia and Austria. He became chief of the United Nations film division in the late 1940s. Later, Zegart was involved in the production of 125 documentaries, ...

Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. Filled ...

Clogs: found in the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany by donor who was a member of the United States Army Ambulance Corps and was visiting Buchenwald after liberation. He found them in Buchenwald and sent them back to his family in New Jersey.

The collection consists of photocopies of archival records dealing with the immigration of Jews to the Philippine Islands or with the treatment of those within the Third Reich the Nazis deemed "non-Aryan." Also includes copies of documents pertaining to the mentally infirm and to the Red Army ambulance corps.

Consists of six photographs of the burning of a barracks in post-liberation Bergen-Belsen. The barracks were burned to help stop the spread of disease. Also contains a group portrait of the staff of an ambulance train which took survivors to hospitals in Sweden.

US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 7, Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers. Troops cross a river and attack and capture Cologne, and advance into Germany. Shows war ruins in Julich, Cologne, and other German cities. Parade of troops through ruined cities. German refugees. Sign on wall: "Hitler ist Kaput". Troops advance. Destruction ...

German troops evacuate Finland. Refugees bound for Sweden on a road. Refugees with belongings at railroad station. German men and equipment in retreat on the Western front; they are loaded aboard ship and move out. Wounded loaded into ambulances. Engineers repair bridge. Destruction in Belgrade. Rocket barrage fired on the Russian front. German antitank and machine guns fired. Russian T-34 tanks advance. ...

In 1945 Chandler Keller (1919 -1993) served as a volunteer ambulance driver for the American Field Service during World War II.

"The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the ...

Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. 05:21:27 MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. 05:22:35 Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers ...

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.

CU, crowd of women, ex-prisoners, waving and gesturing to lorry carrying SS. VCU sign on roadside, "Danger Typhus." CUs of similar Military Police Sign on a post in field, different shots testing focus. Frontal MCU of Schwimmwagen of 11 Light Field Ambulance parked inside women's compound, bearing Red Cross flag. Two British soldiers talk to pretty inmate by jeep, tents in BG. CU, of British soldiers ...