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
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: General, Greece.
On caption card: (11737)
Used in: Red Cross Mag. March 22, 1920.
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 12
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
greece
Source
Library of Congress
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