Refugees by the wayside. All roads leading to Poland have peasant refugees like this woman and her two babies making a brave effort to reach their former homes from which they were driven by the cruel hand of war. They are very hungry and easily fall victim to the ravages of typhus fever. They are people that the Americans through their Red Cross are trying to snatch from the hand of death and give another lease of life. It is a stupendous task in a land where 65,000 people are expected to die of typhus before the coming winter is out
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office.
Group title: Refugees. Poland.
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 25
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
poland
Source
Library of Congress
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