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Refugee Suffering

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees posing in front of their hut as they are preparing for another long day.
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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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Suffering of Belgian Refugee

Date: 1914
Description: Homeless Belgian refugees sitting on a brick sidewalk along the street as they are preparing for another hard day.
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Belgian Refugees in Holland

Date: 1914
Description: Washing day in the refugee camp. Women are shown washing clothes in a large bucket as women and children are watching from the tents.
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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 Play-Wrestling

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Description: Refugees "horsing around" on the ground. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, bor...
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General Eisenhower Touring a Displaced Persons Camp

Date: 1946
Description: Saul Sorrin leading General Dwight D. Eisenhower on a tour of the Neu Friemann Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of t...

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