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Item is a photo of Arie Pleysier, the husband of Sorensen’s mother’s cousin, Rosette née van Dam. They lived in Hilversum, Netherlands. Arie was the individual who smuggled Sorensen and her family out of Amsterdam in 1943. Furthermore, he helped them find a hiding address, as well as forged papers and concealed Sorensen’s father’s assets utilized for paying people hiding them. He was not Jewish; his ...

Last minute check up. French front line soldiers at work on barbed wire barriers, they keep their heads well down and a third keeps guard with rifle ready.

Vernielingen Schiphol. Bomb plot; dots indicate well-defined bursts while diagonal lines show areas of heavy concentrations. Letters refer to a. hangars and repair shops, b.c. dispersal, d. ammunition.

Joyous manifestations in Vienna. The demonstrations of joy about the amicable agreement between Germany and Austria just as well as for the speech of the Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, still continued in Vienna on Monday.

Ras Nasibu's infantry in motor lorries. Lorries loaded with well-armed infantrymen lined up at Ras Nasibu's camp 30 miles south of Harar.

French refugees leave fighting zone. a French refugee, leading a cart containing her possesion, trundles past a knocked out German Mark V as she moves back from the fighting zone to a refugee center well behind the lines.

The hill famed schöberlinie in Czechoslaovakia. The whole Schöber district devolope in an uninterrupted line of well-tarned concrete buildings.

German military music for Norwegian crowds. The band of a German regiment giving an open-air concert in Oslo, which is well attended by interested and appreciative Norwegian crowds.

Poolse troepen in Nederland. A Polish soldier in a well camouflaged position in a ditch guarding the road near Gilze as tanks and vehicles move up to clear the town.

Berlin promenade. Well wrapped-up in a luxurious fur coat, this Berlin woman walks with her husband, less warmly clad and pulling a handcart containing the couple's belongings, along a street in bomb-shattered Berlin.

German war prisoners prepare meal at U.S. internment camp. In a well-lighted kitchen, German prisoners of war prepare an evening meal for their comrades at an internment camp in the Eastern U.S. More than 140,000 prisoners of war, who where captured by U.S. forces, are quartered in 56 prison camps throughout the U.S. Their food, which is prepared under the supervision of mess sergeants chosen from ...