An inmate of the Wöbbelin concentration camp crying, Germany, 1945
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Photograph. Two concentration camp prisoners, one kneeling and one lying on the ground and crying. Official Caption: "An inmate of the Wobbelin Camp bursts into tears when he learns that he cannot be included in the first group of liberated prisoners leaving for hospital treatment. He is to be sent as soon as the worst cases have been cared for. 6531E." Wöbbelin, Germany. 1945
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1945
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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.
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Wöbbelin
Latitude:
53.400
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11.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Prisoners--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany