Reburial of Atrocity Victims, Volary - Czechoslovakia Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4592 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1787-1788) 111 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 797' ea Silent ADC 4592 LIB 6585 - REBURIAL OF ATROCITY VICTIMS Volary - Czechoslavakia - 11 May 1945 Seq: Prayers for the dead are said by a Jewish chaplain of the US 5th Inf Div at ceremony. German civilians unload coffins from truck. Seq: French, Belgian, and US soldiers, and civilians watch burials. LSs, MSs, CU, one woman and two men remove corpses from shallow graves. MSs, women survivors of the atrocity, visibly moved by the sight of the dead. LS, women and children walk past row of corpses lying on ground. LSs, MSs, two US soldiers watch German civilians exhume the bodies of the dead and place them in coffins. LS, women carrying coffins to trucks. (Note: Thirty-two bodies of women were exhumed.) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities