A Sorrolla come to life. Small boys who have not seen a shower bath for years splash about at Evian, where all repatriates are forced to bathe before they are allowed to enter the life of the town. This prevents the spread of disease. These baths are prepared by the French Government and the American Red Cross for the exiles returned by the Germans from their side of the line through Switzerland to France

A Sorrolla come to life. Small boys who have not seen a shower bath for years splash about at Evian, where all sorts of conveniences are prepared by the French Government and the American Red Cross for the exiles returned by the Germans from their side of the line through Switzerland to France

A Russian Junior's morning wash. One of the lasting results of the work of the American Red Cross mission sent to Riga under Colonel Edward Ryan, has been the increased cleanliness of the natives who had become careless through many years of neglect. Today even the smallest children take their morning dip in clean, fresh water, a good antidote for the spread of the typhus fever, once epidemic in this section of the Baltic provinces

Jewish wards of Red Cross. Orphans of Jewish soldiers killed in the War while fighting for Roumania are now cared for at the American Red Cross Orphanage at Bucharest. These children are furnished clothing, food and given medical treatment by the Red Cross. Note the clean personal appearance of each child. All of them live according to American standards of sanitation

After the bath. Repatriate boys, just arrived after a three day journey from occupied France, through Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, have been met by the American Red Cross at Evian, and have just had a shower bath in the French Casino

The shower baths for repatriate children in the grounds of the Casino at Evian, where the repatriates who come through from the German side of the line are cared for by the French Govt., a French committee, and the American Red Cross

The entire village of Lizy-sur-Ourcq, consisting of 450 people, came down to Paris on 3 barges of their own, when they were driven from their homes by the German invaders. They were taken for the night to the seminary of St. Sulpice where, with the aid of the American Red Cross, they could have food, beds and an opportunity to wash before going on their way. Two Paris policemen in the foreground

A Sorrolla come to life. Small boys who have not seen a shower bath for years splash about at Evian, where all repatriates are forced to bathe before they are allowed to enter the life of the town. This prevents the spread of disease. These baths are prepared by the French Government and the American Red Cross for the exiles returned by the Germans from their side of the line through Switzerland to France

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Red Cross Commission to France.
Group Title: Repatries, France, Children.
On caption card: (463)
Data: H&E 24212, Good Housekeeping, Apr. 27.
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
Temp note: Batch 15

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