This first group of photos shows various workshops.  Scrap tin cans are being recycled into jewellry, teapots, etc., scrap wood is being used to make cots and toys (although, rather poignantly, leaning on the wall behind the man on the right painting the Noah's Ark figures, pieces of wood have been shaped ready to be made into rifles), and parts of shoes are being salvaged.

The next set of photographs shows a few images of the repatriation of 1,400 Polish displaced persons.  The first shows the embarkation at Lubeck docks, on their way to Danzig, and my father has written on the back of one of these photos "most carried all they owned".  These photos are followed by some showing the deported families travelling by road and rail, then awaiting their transit camp beside the railway track where they were offloaded, setting up temporary home for the next three days at Danzig,  The last photo in this series shows a young girl being examined in a hospital in Danzig.

As there are so many of these photos, I have put some more examples on a gallery page (see tab).  Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the photos. 

My father also worked alongside photographer Maxine Rude, information about whom can be viewed http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/displaced/index.html (the website for the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies).  A photo of my father and Maxine Rude working together in the photographic laboratory is shown below, together with a compilation of additional photos included on the above link:

 

Additional Photographs Taken by Norman Weaver

Additional photos of the DP Camps by Norman Weaver, colleague of Maxine Rude. Courtesy of Weaver's daughter, Sarah Starsmore, Isle of Wight, England.