Displaced Hungarians making their way back home from Mauthausen, Austria, 1945

Description: 

Photograph. Displaced Hungarians--pulling large and small carts, pushing wheel-barrels, but mostly walking on foot with packs or bundles of food and clothing on their backs--making their way back home from Mauthausen, Austria. Official Caption: "23/8/45 Salzburg-Austria About 6000 Hungarians, including some 3500 Jews, are being moved from the Mauthausen displaced persons staging post by the Russians. The former deportees, forced workers and prisoners of war left Mauthausen--which was turned from a Nazi concentration camp into a stopover area for victims of the German aggression--pulling large and small carts, pushing wheel- barrels, but most trudging on foot with packs or bundles of food and clothing on their backs. They are now making the journey back to their homes, most of which are around Budapest. I.SB. staff photo through USIS Rome." Salzburg, Austria. 23 August 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.279
Date: 
08/23/1945
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Theater of Service: 
Unit: 
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Topical Subjects: 
Refugees--Hungarain--Austria
Walking--Austria
Carts & wagons--Hungarain--Austria
Clothing & dress
Roads--Austria
Collection Level: 
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: 
Salzburg
Latitude: 
47.800
Longitude: 
13.050
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Refugees--Hungarain--Austria
Walking--Austria
Carts & wagons--Hungarain--Austria
Clothing & dress
Roads--Austria