us-005578-irn1003548
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: swe
has or had subject: 851
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1003548
note: See also RG-60.4111 and RG-60.4112 for outtakes from this newsreel. See RG-60.4114 for the second half of this newsreel. SVT Note: Original provenance is"SF short film 170"
scope and content: "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in German" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher bearer. Bearer loads her onto ambulance.
title: Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945