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Group portrait of school children in the Wetzlar displaced persons' camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 63927

Group portrait of school children in the Wetzlar displaced persons' camp.

Original caption reads, "Jewish kids thrilled at posing for a picture."

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Caption: Group portrait of school children in the Wetzlar displaced persons' camp.

Original caption reads, "Jewish kids thrilled at posing for a picture."
Date: 1947
Locale: Wetzlar, [Hesse; Hesse-Nassau] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Herman M. Leitner

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Herman M. Leitner

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) WETZLAR YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Wetzlar

Record last modified:: 2011-03-29 00:00:00
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