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.
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.
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.
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.
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.