Courting, rehabilitation, and the sick at Belsen
Creator(s)
- Imperial War Museums
- H. Hewitt (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
British officer speaks to British MPs sitting in chairs in front of a building, smoking. VAR views, CUs. Sign reads HEADQUARTERS BELSEN CAMP. Women walking in street. Another tree-lined street with pedestrians, mostly soldiers and women. Entering building. Board reading, ARMY WELFARE SERVICE TONIGHT. Women in courtyard of camp. INT, British rehabilitation workers (women) providing survivors (women) with new clothing, shoes, hats. Woman helping boy with clothing. Survivors exiting, boarding truck, driving away, waving to camera. More similar sequences. British MPs and civilian women, courting each other, smoking, laughing. British flag. Sign reading HARRODS. Scenes in hospital with nurses and patients in bed. Nurses tending to patients, checking charts and temperatures, treating/wrapping wounds.
Subjects
- NURSES
- SHOES
- HOSPITALS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- UNRRA
- WOMEN
- CLOTHES
- WOUNDED
- TRUCKS
Places
- Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.