Celebrating Victory in Europe Day

FRIDAY MARKS THE 81ST CELEBRATION OF THE EPA WILL NOT SEE GERMANY SURRENDERED TO ALLIED FORCES BRINGING AN END TO THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT DURING WORLD WAR. 2, THIS COINCIDES WITH A NEW EXHIBIT IN NAPLES THAT TAKES A LOOK AT THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR. IT'S ON DISPLAY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND COHEN, EDUCATION CENTER. WGCUS TEDDY BYRNE HAS MORE. >> FOR MORE ON THE NEW EXHIBIT CAUGHT ON FILM THE WAR TIME PHOTOGRAPHY OF CAN REGULATE AND THE U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS. I'M JOINED BY CODY RADA MAKER, CURATOR OF THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND COHEN EDUCATION CENTER IN NAPLES, MR. ADAM BAKER, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. SO THIS NEW EXHIBIT LOOKS TO GIVE VISITORS BEHIND THE SCENE. LOOK AT THE ALLIED EFFORTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING WORLD WAR. 2. SO HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT BUILDING A CURATION OVER DURATION OF THE ENTIRE CONFLICT? ARE THERE ANY SPECIAL MOMENTS THAT YOU HAD TO FOCUS ON DURING BUILDING THIS DISPLAY? >> WHEN IT COMES TO OF THIS COLLECTION IN PARTICULAR, WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE THAT IT IS A UNIQUE COLLECTION THAT WAS ACTUALLY COMPILED FROM MULTIPLE PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE DAY TO THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 EFFECTIVELY, INCLUDING SOME IMAGES LIKE MUGSHOTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD LATER BE TRIED IN WHAT WERE CALLED THE NUREMBERG TRIALS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL, WHICH WAS THE FIRST BIG ONE. SO FORTUNATELY, KEN, HOW EVERY CAME TO ACQUIRE THIS COLLECTION OF PHOTOS. I SUSPECT HE GOT IT FROM HIS FRIENDS IN THE SIGNAL CORPS JUST BROADLY BECAUSE HE WAS ACTUALLY A FILM, A FILM FOR TO LIKE ACTUAL MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE ARMY SO I BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY CURATED FOR HIM. SO IT BECAME MORE MAKING SURE WE HIT KEY POINTS IN THE WAR RATHER THAN HAVING 2 REALLY PICK AND CHOOSE FROM 1939. TO 45 OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS MORE ACTUALLY FROM D-DAY. 2 NUMBERED EFFECTIVELY. SO IT WAS MORE OF MAKING SURE WE HIT KEY POINTS AND FOUND POIGNANT IMAGES WITHIN A 200 PLUS PHOTO COLLECTION. SO THAT WAS TRICKY. BUT IT VERY SATISFYING. AND I THINK WE DID A GOOD JOB >> AND THEN FOR ONE OF THOSE DATES IN BETWEEN THAT TIMELINE WOULD BE VE DAY, WHICH IS THIS FRIDAY SIGNIFYING THE END OF WORLD WAR 2, WHEN THE NAZIS SURRENDERED TO ALLIED FORCES. SO ARE THERE ANY SPECIAL MOMENTS THAT CAPTURE THE CELEBRATION OF THE WAR COMING TO AN END? >> YES, ONE OF OUR KEY PIECES RELATED TO HUNTER IS A GREAT PHOTO OF DISPLACED PERSON CELEBRATING. IT'S ACTUALLY A COLLECTION OF WOMEN WHO WERE DISPLACED PERSONS OF PEOPLE AFTER THE WAR. OUR SHORTLY AFTER LIBERATION EFFECTIVELY, THAT EITHER COULD NOT GO HOME BECAUSE IT WAS NOT SAFE. IT WAS NOT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO FOR A VARIETY REASONS WERE ACTUALLY HOLDING UP A COLLECTION OF FLAGS THAT THEY MADE UP THE DIFFERENT ALLIES. SO YOU HAD BELGIUM, FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES AND THEY LOOK SO JOYOUS. IT'S SUCH A WONDERFUL MOMENT. AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE LOOK TO TO, TO CAPTURE WITH PARK WITH A FEW OF OUR FOTOS, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A GREAT IMAGE OF PEOPLE CELEBRATING THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE AFTER ITS LIBERATION. SO WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE THAT NOT ONLY DID WE GET THE SIGNAL COURSEWORK TIME PHOTOGRAPHY OF WHICH IS WHAT THEIR MAIN CHARGE WAS TO DO. ACTUALLY DOCUMENT HOW THINGS WERE GOING ON THE FRONT LINES, BUT ALSO THE JOYOUS MOMENTS THAT PEOPLE HAD WHEN THEY WERE. CELEBRATING THERE ESCAPE FROM NOT SEE RULE I THINK THE FUEL FOR DISPLACED PERSONS, PHOTOS IN PARTICULAR SHOW THAT. >> AND SO THE MAN BEHIND THE EXHIBIT CAN READ L, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED THAT HE WORKED WITH THESE SIGNAL CORPS TO GET PHOTOS BECAUSE HE WAS PRIMARY LEE, A VIDEOGRAPHER AT THE TIME OUT THERE. SO DID HE SERVE AND CAPTURE THIS THROUGH? START TO FINISH. WAS HE OUT DURING THE ENTIRE DURATION OF AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR 2, WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT HIM? >> THE BIG THING TO KNOW ABOUT KEN IS THAT HE WAS DOING A VERY UNIQUE ASPECT AND SOMETHING PEOPLE REALLY DON'T THINK ABOUT WHEN IT COMES TO CONFLICT, WHICH IS DOCUMENTING THE CONFLICT AS SOMEONE WHO WAS RUNNING AROUND WITH A JEEP NAMED AFTER HIS WIFE, HIS FUTURE WIFE, OF PEORIA. IT'S KHAN HIMSELF WAS ACTUALLY HAD A BELL AND HOWELL CAMERA AND WAS TAKING FOOTAGE, WHICH THEN HE WOULD TAKE BACK TO LIKE MOBILE DEVELOPING STATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THEY COULD TAKE THE FOOTAGE AND THE DOCUMENTATION AND SEND IT BACK TO LIKE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED FORCES. SO THEY COULD BETTER MAKE BETTER DECISIONS ON WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE GROUND. THIS WORK COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS BECAUSE AS I LIKE TO PUT IT, SOME OF THESE PHOTOS ARE LITERALLY FROM D-DAY. IMAGINE BEING ON ONE OF THOSE LANDING CRAFT AND NOT HAVING LIKE AN M ONE GRAND OR EVEN MORE LIKE A A. BROWNING MACHINE GUN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN YOUR HANDS. BUT YOU HAVE A PHOTO LIKE A PHOTOGRAPH, A CAMERA OR AGAIN, A MOTION PICTURE CAMERA AND YOU ARE TASKED WITH TAKING PICTURES. WALL PART, YOU KNOW, EFFECTIVELY HIDING FROM ENEMY FIRE. AND YOU GOT SO RISKY THAT PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN SILVER STARS FOR THE RISKS. THEY TOOK TO DOCUMENT THEIR WORK DURING THE CONFLICT WAS A WAS A BIG CHALLENGE. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS NOT REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT. >> AND THEN THIS IS NOT A PERMANENT FIXTURE AT THE MUSEUM. >> SO HOW LONG DO HISTORY LOVERS HAVE TO COME? CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING EXHIBIT. >> RIGHT NOW WE ARE PLANNING UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER OR ROUGHLY PUSH SHOULD IN SEPTEMBER OR EARLY OCTOBER THAT WERE PLANNED BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A AND EXHIBIT COMING IN FOR A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE THE NEXT MAJOR EXHIBIT INJURY IN JANUARY. SO IT SHOULD BE IN OCTOBER. SO PLEASE, WE'VE GOT TO SEE YOU. COME IN. YOU LEARN THE STORY AND LEARN ABOUT THE SIGNAL CORPS AND SEE THE KIND OF WORK THAT OUR TROOPS WERE DOING TO HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND AND ULTIMATELY CREATE A VISUAL RECORD OF THE WAR FOR US. WELL, CAUGHT ON FILM THE WAR TIME PHOTOGRAPHY. >> OF CAN READ L AND THE U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS ON DISPLAY NOW AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, COHEN EDUCATION CENTER, MR. RUDD MAKER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME. THIS HAS BEEN WONDERFUL. >> THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND COHEN EDUCATION CENTER IS OPEN TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY FROM 01:00PM TO 4.30, AND FOR MORE INFORMATION YOU CAN HEAD TO