Liberated Buchenwald orphans line up to depart for Switzerland, Germany, 1945

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Photograph. Liberated Buchenwald orphans, leaving for Switzerland, standing in a line in Germany. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/3/45--Buchenwald orphans leave--Members of a group of 350 liberated orphan children at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany stand in line waitinf [waiting] for their names to be called by a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration worker before departing for Switzerland. These war orphans range in age from five to 18 years and some have been at the camp for as long as six years. They are of Polish, Russian, Yugoslavian and Czechoslovakian origin. Buchenwald, near Weimar, was captured by the U.S. Third Army on April 13.--Army photo through Rome OWI--approved by appropriate military authority (List A Out). 6987." Buchenwald, Germany. 3 July 1945

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Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.199
Date: 
07/03/1945
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Topical Subjects: 
Orphans--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany
Children--Germany
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: 
Buchenwald
Latitude: 
51.017
Longitude: 
11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Orphans--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany
Children--Germany