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Refugee Children on an Outing

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Refugee children stand in line as they wait to go on an outing; Munich. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen. When asked about this image, Sorrin revealed, "This is again children. This slips me. I imagine this is outside of some warehouse in one of the DP camps in Munich and the children may have been going on an outing or they may have been going on some sort of a youth group function." Interview by Jean Loeb Lettofsky and David Mandel, March 3, 1980.

Creator:
Sorrin, Saul, 1919-1995

Publication Information

Creator Sorrin, Saul, 1919-1995

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Format Image
Dimensions 35mm

Collection Information

Source Collection Wisconsin survivors of the Holocaust. Interviews and photographs
Call Number PH 3187.20.4

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Copyright Status COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED
Unique ID
W013YX5
Legacy ID
WHi 57491

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