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Group portrait of Belgian POWs in Stalag 10 C.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 70851
Group portrait of Belgian POWs in Stalag 10 C. In front is a large pot. Leopold Guttman is sitting next to it with a large laddle, and another POW holds an accordion.

Group portrait of Belgian POWs in Stalag 10 C.

In front is a large pot. Leopold Guttman is sitting next to it with a large laddle, and another POW holds an accordion.

Date
1940 - 1945
Locale
Nienburg an der Weser, [Lower Saxony] Germany
Photo Designation
POWS/POW CAMPS -- Germany -- Nienburg
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Norman Guttman

About This Photograph

Biography
Leopold Guttman (the father of the donor) was born on July 2, 1907 in Ville de SPA, Belgium. Before the war he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. His sisters and their families immigrated to the United States before the war. In 1938 Leopold volunteered for a Jewish relief agency helping refugees from Germany, and he became head of the housing section. An officer in the Belgian army, he was mobilized during Germany's 1940 invasion of Belgium and spent the remainder of the war as prisoner of war in Stalag X C-12. After the war ended, Gen. Eisenhower appointed him Military Governor of the Hanover province. Leopold Guttman sailed from Antwerp to the United States on May 10th, 1946, exactly six years after the German invasion of Belgium on board the SS Bartlesville Victory. Four years later he married Helen Zadan on March 28, 1950 and he became a U.S. citizen on August 9, 1951.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Norman Guttman
Source Record ID: Collections: 2014.427
 
Record last modified: 2014-09-10 00:00:00
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