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Children in Cart at Farenwald Displaced Persons Camp

Date: 1948
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel's son, Ksiel (top row, left), and friends; Farenwald Displaced Persons camp, Germany.
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Displaced Persons Camp Ambulance Drivers

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Description: Displaced persons camp ambulance drivers standing on a UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) jeep. The man in the front, center,...
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Jews Construct a Ritual Bath at a Displaced Persons Camp

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Description: Construction of a mikveh (ritual bath) by religious Jews; Neu Freimann D.P. camp; Munich.

Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors ...

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Ice Cream Being Sold at a Displaced Persons Camp

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Description: Ice cream being sold outside of a "beer-bar" at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the...
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Refugees at a Displaced Persons Camp Celebrate a Soccer Victory

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Description: Refugees at a Displaced Persons camp celebrate a soccer victory over another D.P. camp team; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wiscons...
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Refugees Stand Near Baby Carriages at a Displaced Persons Camp

Date: 1947
Description: A group of unidentified refugees are standing near baby carriages at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany.
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Cave Entrance in Vicksburg

Date: 1902
Description: Cave in a hillside occupied by the Lewis family from May 18 to July 4, 1863, during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg. Hundreds of other caves in the vicin...
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Postwar Berlin

Date: 1946
Description: Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ...
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Algerian Child Wearing Chapelle's Eyeglasses

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian girl in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. A man is holding Dickey Chapelle's glasses up to the girl's face. She is wearing a patterne...
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Street Scene after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of refugees after the Tet Offensive, camped out front of their damaged homes. Although not identified, it is believed the image is a street s...
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Moving Out

Date: 12 26 1967
Description: Typed note on the back: SGP...UNIPIX North of Hue, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese woman carries her possessions as her home burns behind her. The South Vietn...
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Ortelsburg in East Prussia

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Description: Landrat (local official) distributing gutscheine (food coupons) to the poor.
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in the Zoological Gardens.
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Russian Internees in the Berlin Zoo

Date: 1914
Description: A group of refugees posing for a group portrait in the courtyard of the Berlin zoo.
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Suffering of Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees trying to get warm by the fire in a makeshift tent city.
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Refugee Suffering

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Description: Refugees posing in front of their wagon and their huts as they are preparing for another long, hard day.
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Belgian Refugees in Holland

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees feeling themselves welcome in Holland.

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