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Local inhabitants wade through ruins in Warsaw following the surrender of the city.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 06090

Local inhabitants wade through ruins in Warsaw following the surrender of the city.

Overview

Caption: Local inhabitants wade through ruins in Warsaw following the surrender of the city.
Date: October 1939
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jerzy Tomaszewski

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jerzy Tomaszewski

Source Record ID: 16

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BOMBINGS DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM POLES RUINS/RUBBLE VIEWS
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Poland -- GENERAL -- Daily Life/Deprivation/Destruction of Towns

Record last modified:: 1998-02-24 00:00:00
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