Filter results

Category

Creators

Subject period

Places

Events

Associated person/organisation

Themes

Keywords

• LIBERATION OF THE POW CAMP AT SULINGEN, LOWER SAXONY

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1945-04-14

  Polish soldiers, who have been prisoners in a prison camp at Sulingen for five years, piling on a trailer pulled by a farm tractor, after they had been liberated by the British Army.

• THE LIBERATION OF STRAFFLAGER (PENAL CAMP) VI-C AT OBERLANGEN, 12 APRIL 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1945-04

  Three babies born to Polish women during their internment as POWs at the Oberlangen camp being cared for by their mothers. The women, soldiers of the Polish Home Army and survivors of the Warsaw Uprising, were imprisoned in the camp after the collapse of...

• THE POLISH RESISTANCE 1939-1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: US Official photographer 1945-04

  Polish girl, who was an officer of the Polish Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising, shows her smiling face after being liberated by troops of 75th Division, Ninth US Army somewhere in Germany. On her right stands a 52 year old woman from Crimea in...

• THE LIBERATION OF STRAFFLAGER (PENAL CAMP) VI-C AT OBERLANGEN, 12 APRIL 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1945-04

  Smiling female survivors of the Warsaw Uprising looking through a barbed wire of the former German POW camp at Oberlangen. The women, members of auxiliary units of the Polish Home Army, were imprisoned in the camp after the collapse of the Uprising and,...

• THE LIBERATION OF STRAFFLAGER (PENAL CAMP) VI-C AT OBERLANGEN, 12 APRIL 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1945-04

  Women guards pacing an inner confines of a high barbed wire at the former German penal camp (Strafflager) VI-C in Oberlangen, Germany. The women, soldiers of the Polish Home Army and survivors of the Warsaw Uprising, were imprisoned in the camp after the...

• THE LIBERATION OF STALAG XB AT SANDBOSTEL, APRIL 1945

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Chitham (Sergeant) 1945-04-30

  After meeting heavy opposition, troops of the Guards Armoured Division captured Stalag XB at Sandbostel, near Zeven. This camp also contained a large number of political prisoners of all nationalities as well as British POWs and Allied soldiers. The...

• DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES IN GERMANY

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit 1945-05-18

  The Displaced Persons camp within the grounds of Hamburg Zoo was build by the Blohm & Voss company during WWII to house the forced labourers that worked in their factory. The camp was taken over by the British on 5 May 1945 and quickly given over as...