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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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German Refugees

Date: 
Description: A snapshot of postwar refugees in Berlin traveling by railroad boxcar.
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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 ...
Postcard

Three Young Women on an Outing

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling women stand beside a horse-drawn carriage near Two Rivers. The horses are wearing knotted, corded fly nets and blinders. The carriage has a c...
Poster

War Rages in France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th...
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Belgian Refugees Returning Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees returning home under military inspection.
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Refugee Suffering

Date: 1914
Description: Homeless refugees resting by their belongings.
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Cattaro

Date: 
Description: Evacuated (refugee) women working as laborers at the port.

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