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| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Women learning the dressmaking trade at an ORT school in a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivo... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
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| Mai Zong Vue, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
| Date: | 08 16 1949 |
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| Description: | The Matiss Briedis family, from Latvia, with some of the Madison men and women who have found them a new home in Madison. Seated are Matiss, 42, former Lat... |
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| Description: | Unidentified refugees learn the tailoring trade; Germany. |
| Date: | 05 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Etti Gelan, a nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, giving a drink of water to a male patient, William Laerk of Waukesha. She left her native country of Germ... |
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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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| Description: | Portrait of a man and a woman performing in a theatrical production at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wis... |
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| Description: | Refugees stand behind supplies in a food warehouse at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors... |
| Date: | 02 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Lasslo (Larry) Csukardy, a Hungarian refugee, receives the first Valentines of his life from Mrs. Don Andree, on the left, and Mary Natvig, a teacher at Se... |
| Date: | 08 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, left, greets three war orphans visiting Madison under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Left to Ri... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Refugees demonstrate for Israeli statehood at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the H... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A group of unidentified refugees are standing near baby carriages at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
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| Pao Lor, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
| Date: | 07 04 1980 |
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| Description: | Group of six men posed for an informal portrait. One smokes a cigarette and has a pet squirrel on his shoulder. Another man holds a small U.S. flag. Barrac... |
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