Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Maker: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1945-09
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.118871

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, attached inscription, typed: THOUSANDS OF GERMAN REFUGEES SEEK HOMES – FACE STARVATION. / Owing to the displacement of millions of former residents of Poland / and Czechoslovakia – all Germans – who have been compelled to / evacuate their homes, hundreds of thousands of German refugees from / these territories have arrived in Berlin. Most of them have been / forced to leave again, as there is insufficient food and shelter for / them in the German capital. A chaotic condition has resulted, the / problem being apparently insoluble as long as the German refugees / arrive without supervision in disorganized groups. As winter approaches / thousands of these homeless people face starvation. / PHOTO SHOWS: - Homeless German refugees waiting at the Lehrter Bahnof / Station in Berlin, for trains to take them further West. / GX 1359//10//11//12 September 1945 PN.; handwritten: IIWW Germany Refugees / Children; handwritten: isplaced person; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: [star shape] BLACK STAR; stamped: COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD / S. JOHNSON’S COURT. / LONDON. E.C.4. / PHONE [illeg.]

Tagasauris Keywords: Child and adult; Children; Day; Daytime; Female; Full-Length Portrait; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Hat; Low angle View; Male and Female; Monochrome Photography; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Refugee; Smile; Social issues; Still Life; Unrest, conflicts and war; White; World War II; Youth
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII GERMANY / REFUGEES CHILDREN
Retouching: N