Children of concentration camp victims wave from a train leaving Braunschweig, Germany, 1945

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Photograph. Small children waving from window in train car. "Rome, 5/23/45--Goodbye to Germany--Children of former slave laborers of the Germans wave goodbye from a train leaving Braunschweig, Germany, at the start of their homeward journey. Since the defeat of Germany, refugees from France, Belgium, Poland, Russia and Holland have been repatriated from Braunschweig at the rate of approximately 1,200 a day. Travel facilities to their homelands are being arranged by Allied officials and liaison workers. Braunschweig, 120 miles (192 kms) west of Berlin, formerly was a large manufacturing center for Nazi war supplies.--U.S. Signal Corps Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (B list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6379." Braunschweig, Germany. 23 May 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.227
Date: 
05/23/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Refugees--Germany
Children--Germany
Railroad cars
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
Braunschweig
Latitude: 
52.267
Longitude: 
10.533
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Refugees--Germany
Children--Germany
Railroad cars