Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: EPOQUE LTD.
Event Date: 1961-08-14
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.018195

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Berlin Crisis August 61; attached inscription, typed: THE LAST TO GET THROUGH. / 14.8.61 / As the Communists closed the East / Berlin border, refugees in their thousands / the last to get through, managed to report / to the big Marienfeld refugee camp in West / Berlin. / photo shows. A young girl with all the / possessions she could carry, sits down / and waits, at the Marienfeld refugee camp / in West Berlin. / (A). 12.; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: Epoque – B.S.Captions: Verso: The last to get through, August 14, 1961. As the Communists closed the East Berlin border, refugees in their thousands, the last to get through, managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: A young girl with all the possessions she could carry, sits down and waits, at the Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin.Markings:Verso: The last to get through, August 14, 1961. As the Communists closed the East Berlin border, refugees in their thousands, the last to get through, managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: A young girl with all the possessions she could carry, sits down and waits, at the Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin.

Tagasauris Keywords: 4 people; 4 people; Berlin; Child and adult; Coat; Communism; Day; East Germany; Face; Family; Full-Length Portrait; Germany; Group; Kerchief; Male and Female; Marienfelde; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Refugee; Sad; Social issues; Still Life; Tree; West Berlin
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERLIN / CRISIS SHOWING PEOPLE
Retouching: N