Director General Herbert H. Lehman, First Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), Washington, DC. Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963), former Governor of New York State 1933 to 1942. His father was Meyer Lehman, the prominent investment banker and one of the founders of Lehman Brothers. In 1946, he lost a bid f...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1940 - 1949
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
A Jewish Orphan cared for by a German Nun, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center, Kloster-Indersdorf, near Augsburg, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Altar Boys before a Painting of the Black Madonna. Copy of the painting done by a Polish Displaced Person at the Insul Camp, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Boy and Infant: World War II : Lost Children, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center. Kloster Indersdorf, Germany, 1945. Within the gloomy confine of an old monastery, without parents or home, a young boy cares for an infant he had never known before. The pathway to their security was not yet real, onl...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Distribution of Donated Clothing to Orphaned or Displaced Children. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center, Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Doctor and Nurse Examine Boy with Signs of Malnutrition, UNRRA Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Chinese Doctor Hong Tuan of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Team 206, examines an orphaned child. UNRRA Health Center at Freiburg, Germany (French Zone), 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
German Child at Wiesbaden Hospital, 1945. His parents, in anger, asked me why our American planes had done this to an innocent child...? We saw countless amputations of this sort. -Maxine Rude
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Greta (Fischerova) Fischer, was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled to London at the beginning of WWII in 1939. Her parents,who remained in Czechoslovakia perished in Theresienstadt. Fischer spent the war years working in British nurseries and after the war immediately joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Jewish Mother and Child, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Transit camp, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, 1945. A Jewish mother and child stop for food and shelter at the Deutches Museum Camp. This scene was used for background in the film, "The Search." It told the story of the upheaval of a Jewish family from Pr...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Kaiser Clothing Collection from United States, Warehouse near Hanau, Germany, 1945. Clothing specifically for the Displaced Persons poured in from many countries. Distribution became a major problem when it was discovered that much of the clothing was in unusable condition due to the length of time taken to process it for shipment. Rot, mold, bu...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Director General of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (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 Arolsen, Germany.1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Maxine Rude and Norman Weaver in Rude's Photo Laboratory, Hoechst, Germany, 1945. Norman Weaver (1913-1989) was a colleague of Maxine Rude. Together they photographed United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) operations. Weaver, a native of London, England began the war as a Cartographic Trade Hand. In 1942 UNRRA hired him ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Nurse with Children-their Toilet Routine. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Orphan Children on Stairs at Kloster Indersdorf,Germany with Czechoslovakian United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Worker Greta (Fischerova) Fischer, 1945. Greta (Fischerova) Fischer, was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled to London at the beginning of WWII in 1939. Her parents, who remained in Czechoslovakia, peris...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Orphan Children at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany with Czechoslovakian United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Nurse, Greta (Fischerova) Fischer, 1945. These hungry children anxiously eat a meal. The Czechoslovakian nurse was with them daily. She gave them love; the children seemed happy and content. Nights were something el...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Residents Enjoying a Neighborly Conversation while Awaiting Repatriation to their Homeland at an United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, American Zone, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Three Orphans at Kloster Indersdorf, Germany United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Hostel, 1945. The Child with Head Covering had Eczema.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Three Women on a Polish Repatriation Train Leaving Germany, 1945. Polish women, forced into Germany as slave labor, prepare to leave for their homeland. Some were leaving reluctantly. Their needs were being met by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and relief agencies in Germany. Their future in Poland was unknown. ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Vegetable Garden in Displaced Persons Camp for People from the Balkans. Germany, 1945. Repatriation was a slow and difficult process. Much effort was expended by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) personnel to give displaced persons a feeling of being cared for. UNRRA focused relentlessly on repatriating them to the ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Wooden Arch at Entry of Polish Repatriation Center, Germany, 1945. This is a typical example of a Displaced Persons camp. Poles made up a large percentage of displaced persons and had their own camps.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Workers Preparing to Serve a Meal at Children's Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, 1945. The usual fare served at this Children's Camp in West Germany was soup and whole grain bread. As more children arrived, food was sought from any source. These women are unsung heroines. Every touch and kindness afforded each bewildered child by these women was...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Children Playing: Typical United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, 1945-1946. It was a redeeming experience to see children who had never met, play so warmly together in these camps. Often one heard different languages spoken. Understanding foreign words however, was peripheral to the delig...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945 - 1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
A Jewish Boy at Zeilsheim, Germany, Children's Center Awaits Transport to Palestine, 1946. "I would love to find this 'boy' again-where has he been since 1946?"-Maxine Rude
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Displaced Persons United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Camp Firefighters, Germany, 1946. The firefighters are wearing German Wehrmacht helmets painted black.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial, Near Munich, Germany. Germany Farmers Working in Nearby Field, 1946. Remnants of crematorium chimney and memorial with an original furnace door embedded. Many German farmers living nearby claimed to have no knowledge of what had gone on there. It is inconceivable that they were unaware of what was taking place...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Director Fiorello LaGuardia with Children in the Displaced Persons Camp at Funk Kaserne, UNRRA's Emigration and Repatriation Center in Munich. August, 1946. Boy with flowers is Olav Hetako, a two-year old stateless child. Fiorello H. LaGuardia was an American Politician who was the ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Displaced Woman from Belorussia (now Belarus) one of the first Displaced Persons to be allowed to enter Heidelberg University, 1946. This White Russian woman was among several hundred women released from a camp when the Nazis capitulated. American soldiers found them naked in a field. Despite that grotesque situation, much later she was allowed ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Eleanor Roosevelt Greeted by Displaced Persons's Under a "We want to go to Palestine "Banner at the Zeilsheim Jewish Displaced Persons Camp near Wiesbaden, Germany, 1946. This was to have been an unannounced visit but the ''grapevine'' in the camps overshadowed other intelligence efforts. Mrs. Roosevelt was warmly greeted by these people who had...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Eleanor Roosevelt Visiting Zeilsheim Jewish Displaced Persons Camp near Wiesbaden, Germany, 1946. Eleanor Roosevelt, dressed in black in mourning for her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt, visits the Zeilsheim Camp. A tour of the entire camp was planned. I went ahead of the group to the library. Inside I found women scrubbing and cleaning. T...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Front Entrance to Crematorium at Concentration Camp at Dachau, near Munich, 1946. Note the chimney for smoke from furnace where bodies were burned. Dachau, opened in April, 1933, was a camp for political prisoners and was never classified as an extermination camp. However, there is some debate about whether a gas chamber on the premises was ever...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Henryk Michinek Painting a Mural at United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center, Aglasterhausen, Germany, 1946. It was always such a revelation seeing the art done by those in the camps. So much was dark and heavy, often reflecting the justice that had vanished from their lives. After completing this mural, ...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Memorial Day Parade at a Polish Displaced Persons Camp. US Zone, Germany, 1946 Paper globe on the truck made by Displaced Persons. Notice words: "Long life to Democracy..."
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Orphan in United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Hospital Bed, Brno, Czechoslovakia 1946. The face of fear, loneliness, and isolation was seen on thousands of children whose parents were torn out of their lives disappearing into concentration camps or slave labor. As time has passed and clear knowledge has become availab...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Polish Re-orientation of Displaced Persons. Germany, 1946. Polish government officials quickly took over re-orientation of Displaced Persons in the camps in Germany (before repatriation), organizing adults & children into "patriotic" groups—with strong regimentation and political subservience. Notice uniforms provided to various ages. I was no...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) School & Recreation Room in the French Occupation Zone, Lindau, Germany, 1946. A Displaced Persons artist paints a mural.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Soviet Anti-Nazi Propaganda Poster in a Czechoslovakian Hospital, Brno. "To Destroy the Fascist Nest Forever!" 1946. Note the snake in the form of a swastika being cut apart.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Toy Factory Started by Displaced Persons, Lindau, Germany, French Occupation Zone, 1946. One of fifteen small businesses in Lindau. The French were the first to give displaced persons the right to work within the German economy.-Maxine Rude
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Administrative Office Greets some of the First Ten Jewish Students Permitted to Enter Heidelberg University After World War II, 1946.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Director General Fiorello LaGuardia with Polish Slave Labor Woman at Funk Kaserne Emigration and Repatriation Center near Munich, Germany, 1946. Hedwig Rademacher (seated) speaks with LaGuardia about her imminent return to Bojanov, Poland, on a repatriation train. Able to speak seve...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Polish Displaced Persons Camp, Germany, 1946. Residents spent much time beautifying their temporary residences.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Staff Member bids Farewell with Flowers to Displaced Persons being Repatriated to Poland, Lauf, Germany, 1946. Trains were Decorated for the Event.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
