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Distribution of Food

Date: 12 02 1956
Description: Elevated view of a Cub Scout, Girl Scout, and Brownie Scout standing on the sidewalk bringing boxes of food to St. Vincent de Paul to be distributed to rec...
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Children Sitting on Steps

Date: 1980
Description: Children sitting on steps. Two of them are wearing "I'm A Pepper" t-shirts. Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refugees who had arrive...
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Young Cubans with Petitions

Date: 1980
Description: Four smiling young Cubans with petitions for camp nomination elections. Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refugees who had arrived as...
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Steve Gunderson And Children

Date: 1980
Description: Interpreter Steve Gunderson, center, with four children and an unidentified man. Photographs made on July 4, 1980, by Archibald of Cuban refugees who had a...
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Escape from Hungary to Austria

Date: 11 29 1956
Description: A woman in a headscarf crosses an improvised bridge in the vicinity of the village of Tamsweg, escaping from Hungary to Austria.
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Bremen Emigrant Area

Date: 1947
Description: The entrance of the area of emigration for refugees from Europe, taken by Louis Koplin; Bremen, Germany.
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Polish Refugees on Train

Date: 1946
Description: Train full of Polish refugees. Photograph taken by Louis Koplin during the time he worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; near the Ge...
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Cyla Tine Stundel and Son, Ksiel

Date: 1948
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel and son, Ksiel; Farenwald Displaced Persons camp, Germany.
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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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Portrait of Jackie Melamedik

Date: 1948
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel's nephew, Jackie Melamedik (her sister Marim's son); Farenwald Displaced Persons camp, Germany. He was the only other member of her famil...
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Cyla Tine Stundel and Son, Ksiel

Date: 1948
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel and her son, Ksiel, at Farenwald Displaced Persons camp, Germany.
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Refugees on their Way to the United States

Date: 1947
Description: Refugees on their way to Bremerhaven, Germany to sail to the United States. The man in the center is Max Neumann, director of HIAS in Germany. On the left ...
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Refugee Children on an Outing

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Description: 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 ...
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An Unidentified Refugee

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Description: Portrait of an unidentified refugee.
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Weinschenker Family in a Train Car

Date: 1947
Description: The Weinschenker family poses for a portrait in a train car. From left to right are an unidentified man, an unidentified woman, Frieda Weinschenker (sittin...
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Milo Weinschenker

Date: 1947
Description: Portrait of Milo Weinschenker, the son of Chaim and Klara Weinschenker. He is sick, tucked into bed.
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Milo Weinschenker in Sunglasses

Date: 1947
Description: Portrait of a refugee child, Milo Weinschenker, wearing sunglasses. He is standing next to a train, as he and his family were about to leave Germany to sai...
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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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Refugees Learning Hebrew at a Displaced Persons Camp

Date: 08 18 1946
Description: Refugee children learning Hebrew at a displaced persons camp school; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holo...

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