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Scenes of misery in Serbia. In Strimlja, south Serbia, most of the children look like these. Dressed in filthy rags and living in the most unhealthy and miserable surroundings their poverty and helplessness is unbelieveagle sic Industrial and vocational training schools centers as planned by the Junior Red Cross of America for this section of war-ravaged Europe, will go a long way toward alleviating permanently the heritage of misery and ignorance which war has left these unfortunate children. To train some of Serbia's thousands of war orphans into skilled workers and competent artisans will not only lift up the race, but will enable the country to carry on its reconstruction now retarded and handicapped in every way through lack of laborers
Starvation scenes in Serbia. Starvation scenes in southern Serbia like the one here pictured are found on every hand, whole families, especially among the gypsy population, have had to bear unbelievable misery, and be constantly tortured with hunger. This extreme destitution was combatted by American Red Cross relief units that answered thousands of distress calls and supplied food, medicines, doctors and clothing in spite of transportation difficulties that at first seemed almost unsourmountable sic
Progress of Balkan Architecture. The typical peasants home in the mountains of Montenegro. It illustrates well the lack of progress that has existed for hundreds of years in this part of Europe. The house is a one-room affair built by the family and consists of loose stones with a grass roof. American doctors and nurses sent to Montenegro by the Red Cross to battle against the increasing epidemics found these living conditions to be one of the chief causes of disease which has fifty percent of the population in its grip
Crippled Serbia. Signs of material devastation and war pillage are seen on every hand in Serbia but the traveller in this part of the world stands transfixed before the tragedy of her childlife. Everywhere is heartbreaking evidence of the part children have played in the great war. Orphanages are filled with the parentless, the homeless, the hungry and emaciated and finally the thousands of tubercular whose worn bodies have finally succumbed to weakness from undernourishment. In this group are some of those placed in an open air sanitarium conducted by the Junior Red Cross of America
The quaintest and most picturesque spots in the Balkans are to be found along the shores of Lake Ochrida which is on the border between Serbia and Albania. This shows fishermen outside their delapidated home repairing their nets. The war brought much suffering to to these simple folk, who were forced to abandon theor only means of livlihood for five years when the American Red Cross arrived, they turned their fishing boats into transports and paddled the American Relief workers up and down the shores of the lake distributing food, clothing, and medicine
Women of the Balkans. A typical group of women from the mountain district of Serbia. They are taking a sun bath on the side of the American Red Cross station at Batch while waiting for the distribution of relief supplies. Note their aprons and similarity of dress. The aprons are made of coarse handspun wool with fine red and white stripes. The jackets are the native costume of the village from which they come. They hav ewalked many miles for Red Cross supplies. Several of them are barefoot and none have stockings
Albanians travel far for American help. Carrying their sick children on their backs this Albanian mother and father walked for three days all the way from their mountain hut in Liabinoi to the Junior Red Cross of America hospital clinic in Elbasan medical treatment and clean clothing from America were given them before they started on their weary journey back. At the clinic particular stress is laid on instruction to all mothers regarding hygiene and simple health rules for their anemic delicate children
Carrying On In Montenegro. The American Red Cross gave this royal palace in Montenegro a thorough renovating and installed an up to date hospital for the sick of Podgoritza, Montenegro. Before the war ex-Prince Mirko lived here. On the palace steps are Lieut. Col. H.R. Fairclough (center), of Palo Alto, Cal. Director of the Albanain unit, and his medical and nursing staff. On the balcony are native hospital aides. Many of the hospital patients are Montenegrin men who have been wounded in the numerous mountains vendettas of feuds which are the bane of this troubled Balkan kingdom
Winner of Balkan "Misery Honors". A view of Kavalla, Greece, that contained more misery to the square foot than any other town in the Levant according to American Red Cross relief workers. The Red Cross was the first relief agency to reach this Greek city after the armistice, and here it found thousands of refugees from Serbia and Greece sick and starving. The citadel surmounting the hill is an old Turkish fortress, sitting like a grim, patient vulture sure of its prey, for within it the victims of war, plague and pestilence were buried
Victims of latest Balkan trouble. This picture shows a typical group of thousands of Albanian war victims who were interred in Montenegro during a recent Balkan squabble. The American officer is Lieut. Col. H.J. Fairclough, head of the American Red Cross Commission to Montenegro and former professor at Leland Stanford University in California. When these homeless, miserable women and children swarmed through the lines at the Serbian-Montenegro frontier they were filthy, vermin-ridden and frenzied with starvation and suffering. They were given a daily ration of American food and have since been returned to their own country by Red Cross workers co-operating with the Albanian refugee committee
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office.
Data: Pacific Division, March 22, 1920.
Group title: Refugees, Albania.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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Date
01/01/1920
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