Jewish children return home

Identifier
irn1000762
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.0917
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)

Scope and Content

"Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train. "Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs , of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning of a new life in liberty".

Note(s)

  • Additional footage of children "going home" available on 111 ADC 4812, dated June 19, 1945. [Children orphaned in Buchenwald concentration camp separated into small groups by UNRRA workers and taken with their belongings to the train to Switzerland.] Duplicate footage on Film ID 828, Story 844.

Subjects

  • BUCHENWALD
  • SIGNS/POSTERS
  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA
  • POLES
  • FLAGS
  • HUNGARY
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • LIBERATION
  • TRAINS
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)

Places

  • Weimar, Germany
  • Buchenwald, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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