Exhibition Checklist

  1. UNRRA Children's Center for Orphans, Biberach, Germany (French Occupation Zone), 1946
  2. Front Entrance to Crematorium at Concentration Camp at Dachau, near Munich. 1946
  3. A Jewish Orphan cared for by a German Nun, UNRRA Children's Center, Kloster-Indersdorf, near Augsburg, Germany, 1945.
  4. Orphan in UNRRA Hospital Bed, Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1946.
  5. Orphan Children at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany with Czechoslovakian UNRRA nurse, 1945
  6. Boy and infant--World War II lost children-UNRRA Children's Center. Kloster Indersdorf, Germany. 1945.
  7. Orphan Children at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany with Czechoslovakian UNRRA nurse, Greta Fischerova, 1945
  8. Workers preparing to serve a meal at children's Displaced Persons camp, Germany. 1945.
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt visiting Zeilsheim (12 km West of Frankfurt Am Main) Jewish Displaced Persons camp near Wiesbaden, Germany, 1945.
  10. Eleanor Roosevelt visiting Zeilsheim (12 km West of Frankfurt Am Main) Jewish Displaced Persons camp near Wiesbaden, Germany, 1945.
  11. UNRRA Director General Fiorello LaGuardia with Polish slave labor woman and Funk Kaserne Emigration and Repatriation Center near Munich, Germany. 1946. UNRRA Director General Fiorello LaGuardia with Polish slave labor woman and Funk Kaserne Emigration and Repatriation Center near Munich, Germany. 1946. The Nazis regarded LaGuardia, the Mayor of New York, as a Jew because he had a Jewish mother. Laguardia himself identified as an Italian-American Catholic. Among the millions of Jews who were detained at concentration camps during WWII, it is little known that Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, the sister of New York's illustrious Mayor Fiorello LaGaurdia was among them. She was deported from, Budapest to Mauthausen and later Ravensbreuck. Fiorello LaGuardia was, however, unable to rescue his sister at that time as she had lost her citizenship by marrying a foreign man. A year after their radio reunion, however, LaGuardia was able to get his sister to Copenhagen. La Guardia Gluck came to the United States in the spring of 1947, where she lived in housing projects in Queens until her death in 1961.
  12. Kaiser Clothing collection from United States. Warehouse near Hanau (25 km east of Frankfurt am Main), Germany. 1945.
  13. UNRRA Supply Warehouse, Hanau (25 km east of Frankfurt am Main), Germany. Trucks are from US. Catholic Welfare Agency. 1945.
  14. Children issued shoes at UNRRA Displaced Persons Center, Wertheim, Germany. 1945.
  15. Toy Factory Started by Displaced Persons, Lindau, Lake Constance, Germany, French Occupation Zone. 1946.
  16. Young Polish-Jewish artist at DP Camp Art Fair, 1946.
  17. Henryk Michinek painting a mural at UNRRA Children's Center, Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1946.
  18. Displaced Persons Camp, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1946.
  19. Children's exercise class, UNRRA Center, Wertheim, Germany, 1946
  20. DP music instructor and students, Polish Camp, Wertheim, Germany, 1946
  21. Vegetable garden in Displaced Persons camp for people from the Balkans. Germany, 1945.
  22. Children playing-Typical UNRRA Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, 1945-46.
  23. Jewish mother and child, UNRRA Transit camp, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, 1945.
  24. Displaced woman from Byelorussia--one of the first DPs to be allowed to enter Heidelberg University. 1946.
  25. Three women in a Polish repatriation train leaving Germany, 1945.
  26. Horse pulling motorless automobile, Kurfurstemdam. Berlin. 1945.
  27. Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, Near Munich, Germany. Germany farmers working in nearby field. 1946.
  28. Memorial Day parade at Polish camp with men mocking torture tactics and wearing the Buchenwald Camp uniform. American Zone, Germany, 1946.
  29. Maxine Rude and British photographer Norman Weaver in Maxine Rude's Photo laboratory, Hoechst, Germany. 1945.
  30. Residents at an UNRRA Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, American Zone, neighbors enjoying a conversation while awaiting repatriation to their homeland. 1945.
  31. A typical family room in a Displaced Persons camp, Germany, 1945. American Zone.
  32. Monument to Poles murdered at Dachau. The doors are the original ones taken from the furnace at the crematorium of the concentration camp. 1945.
  33. Memorial at Dachau Concentration Camp, Near Munich, Germany. Germany farmers working in nearby field claimed no knowledge of what took place there. 1946.
  34. UNRRA Administrative Office greets some of the first ten Jewish students permitted to enter Heidelberg University after World War II. 1946.
  35. Ruins in Berlin after Allied bombing. 1945.
  36. Bombed church and end of Kurfurstendamm Weg, Berlin's famous landmark. 1945.
  37. The Fate of Berlin: Ruins from Allied Bombing. 1945.
  38. German child at Wiesbaden Hospital. His parents, in anger, asked me why our American planes had done this to an innocent child...? We saw countless amputations of this sort. 1945.
  39. UNRRA Doctor and nurse examine boy with signs of malnutrition, UNRRA Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany. 1945.
  40. Young displaced person baking bread in his camp. Germany. 1946.
  41. Displaced persons baking daily bread supply for their camp. Germany, 1946.
  42. Director General Herbert H. Lehman, First Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Washington, DC. Lehman was former Governor of New York State.
  43. Director General of UNRRA Operations Europe: Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan. Morgan signed the World War II Peace Agreement at Reims, France, for Great Britain. Photographed at his office in Bad Arolsen, Germany.1945.
  44. Memorial Day parade at a Polish DP Camp. US Zone, Germany. Paper Globe on the truck made by Displaced Persons. Notice words: "Long life to Democracy..." 1946.
  45. Russian Anti-Nazi Poster in a Czechoslovakian hospital, Brno. "To Destroy the Fascist Nest Forever! 1946.
  46. UNRRA Polish DP Camp, Germany, 1946. Residents spent much time beautifying their temporary residences.
  47. "Where the German Soldier Stands, No One Else May Enter..." This became a warehouse. Germany. 1945.
  48. Eleanor Roosevelt at Zeilsheim DP Camp, Germany after the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945.
  49. UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia, for Mayor of New York City, talks with children in the Displaced Persons camp at Funk Kaserne, UNRRA's Emigration and Repatriation Center in Munich. Boy with flowers is Olav Hetako, a two-year old stateless child. August, 1946.
  50. Polish government officials quickly took over reorientation of Displaced Persons in the camps in Germany (before repatriation), organizing adults and children into "patriotic" groups--with strong regimentation and political subservience. Notice uniforms provided to various ages. The photographer was not allowed admittance to the facility so she took this photo quickly from a balcony. 1946
  51. Polish priest with orphaned child at UNRRA Displaced Persons camp--Germany. 1945.
  52. Displaced Person artist at an UNRRA Camp in Germany. Such talent emerged in all camps. 1946
  53. UNRRA School & Recreation room in the French Occupation Zone, Lindau, Germany. A DP paints a mural. 1946.
  54. Displaced Persons organize UNRRA Camp Firefighters, wearing former German Wehrmacht (army) helmets painted black. Germany. 1946.
  55. Wooden arch at Entry of Polish Repatriation Center, Germany, 1945. This is a typical example of a Displaced Persons camp.
  56. Distribution of donated clothing to orphaned or displaced children. UNRRA Children's Center, Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
  57. Polish Parish Catholic Church-Korbach, Germany, Polish DP Camp. UNRRA Officer and child wearing camp-made copy of a Polish uniform. 1946.
  58. UNRRA Nurse-Social worker with Orphans eating at table. Polish DP Camp Wertheim, Germany. 1945.
  59. Orphans at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany UNRRA Hostel. Child with head covering had eczema. 1945.
  60. Orphans receive a new pair of shoes. UNRRA Children's Center Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
  61. Cod-liver Oil Time. UNRRA Children's Center Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
  62. Nurse with children--their toilet routine. UNRRA Children's Center Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
  63. Orphan Children at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany with Czechoslovakian UNRRA nurse, Greta Fischerova, 1945.
  64. Chinese Doctor Hong Tuan of UNRRA Team 206, examines an orphaned child. UNRRA Health Center at Freiburg, German (French Zone). 1945.
  65. A Jewish boy at Zeilsheim, Germany, Children's Center awaits transport to Palestine. "I would love to find this 'boy' again-where has he been since 1946?"
  66. Medical supplies purchased for UNRRA were discovered in a Czechoslovakian warehouse. 1946.
  67. Altar boys before a painting of the Black Madonna-a copy done by a Polish Displaced Person at the Insul Camp, Berchtesgaden, Germany. 1945.
  68. Polish Repatriation Train at Lauf, Germany. UNRRA Staff employees at departure. 1946.
  69. UNRRA Staff Member bids farewell with flowers to Displaced Persons being repatriated to Poland. Trains were decorated for the event. Lauf, Germany. 1946.