Refugees Collection (#3)

Italy / 452 / Refugees Venic
Italian civilians seek refuge in what today is Venice Date: 452

The Flight from Tirlemont, Belgians fleeing, Aug 1914
Belgian civilians fleeing from Tirlemont away from the invading Germans in August 1914. Date: 1914

Belgian refugees accommodated at Alexandra Palace, WW1
A huge bedroom in North London - the Central Hall of Alexandra Palace used to accommodate a number of Belgian refugees arriving in London in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

WW1 - Belgian Refugees on road to Brussels from Tirlemont
WW1 - Belgian Refugees on the road to Brussels from Tirlemont Date: 1914

Belgian Refugees - WW1
Belgian refugees fleeing their homes following the German Army advance into Belgium rest by the roadside. Date: 1914

Sphere cover - French refugees from lost villages, Matania
A refugee French mother and her children are given a lift by some British soldiers on a road in Northern France as they escape the approaching German guns

Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British

Armenian boy scouts at refugee camp, Egypt
Armenian boy scouts blowing cook house at the Armenian refugee camp, Heliopolis, near Cairo, Egypt. The camp was formed during the Egyptian Riots of June 1919

Belgian boy scouts helping Congo refugees, Brussels
Belgian boy scouts helping women and children refugees from the Congo at Brussels airport, 18 July 1960. Belgian nationals were leaving the former Belgian colony because of political unrest following

Refugees at Ostend, Belgium, World War One
Flight from the Germans at Ostend, Belgium in the First World War. Refugees on the quayside at Ostend waiting in vain for a boat to carry them to safety, in France or England, 1914. Date: 1914

Belgian refugees leaving Antwerp for England 1914
The siege of Antwerp in World War One. A train full of Belgian refugees leaving Antwerp for the coast en route for England as the German forces pressured the outer defences of the city. Date: 1914

Shanghai refugee kitchen
The Ward Road Camp Kitchen, in the Hongkew (Hongkou) district of Shanghai. The Kitchen prepared food for 6000 refugees each day, and people living locally also bought food from the kitchen

Shanghai refugees seek refuge
Chinese civilian refugees from the Nantao part of Shanghai gather outside the gates of the French Concession hoping to be admitted and find refuge Date: 1937

Beijing 1937
Chinese refugees gather together following the bombardment of Beijing (Peking) by the Japanese, in the early stages of the Sino-Japanese War Date: July 1937

Belgian refugees in Brussels
Belgian refugees arrive in Brussels from the country, fleeing the German advance. Date: August 1914

Belgian refugees
Homeless and Helpless. Belgian women and children flee from the advancing German army. Date: August 1914

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Refugee Camp - Vardar District. Date: circa 1916

A refugee in Thessaloniki - sitting in the Vardar District
A refugee in Thessaloniki, Greece - sitting in the Vardar District - WW1 era. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Serbian refugees within The Church of Saint George (The Rotunda). Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki, Greece - The Refugee District
WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - The Refugee District. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Refugees in the Vardar Quarter Date: circa 1917

WW1 - Thessaloniki - Serbian Refugees in Church St Catherine
WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Serbian Jewish refugee children within The Church of Saint Catherine, at this stage still the Yakup Pasha Mosque (note the Minbar on right). Date: circa 1917

Thessaloniki aflame - 1917
A view of the Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, that raged between 18th-19th August 1917. In 32 hours 9500 houses were destroyed.which left more than 70000 people homeless

Homeless citizens assess damge to property - Thessaloniki. The Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, raged between 18th-19th August 1917

SWITZERLAND. Geneva. Reformation Wall. The Elector Prince of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia, accepts in his states the French refugees victims of the revocation of the Nantes edict. Sculpture

A French family stand outside their ruined home. World War One

Refugees overtaken

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can t seem to accomplish nothin there

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of fathers ill health

Armenian refugees at Baku, Armenia, WW1
Armenian refugees at Baku, Armenia, towards the end of the First World War. Date: August 1918

Civilian refugees leaving Ypres, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees leaving Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 2 November 1914

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (2 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people (2/9). Date: 1923

Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, after bombardment during the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Civilian refugees near Ghent, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees resting at the side of a rail track near Ghent, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 9 October 1914

Exiled Communards 2
Living as best they can, French communist refugees after the collapse of the Commune find refuge in London. Date: 1872

Exiled Communards 1
Fleeing France after the Commune, communist refugees establish a community in London : they maintain a co- operative kitchen in Newman Passage, near Charing Cross. Date: 1872

Refugee notice WWII
One of the notices in a refugee centre during World War II exhorting Belgian refugee women in an advanced state of pregnancy to register their names here. 1939-1945

Jewish family camping inside a railway wagon
A Jewish family camping inside a railway wagon at Palmi (Calabria), Italy - made homeless by the earthquake at Messina, Sicily

Slovak Refugee Women
Three Slovak women refugees saying goodbye to a Czech soldier on the streets of Kaschau, Hungary. Date: 1930s

Serbian refugees during retreat, Macedonia, WW1
Serbian refugees during the retreat, in Macedonia during the First World War. Date: 1915

Civilian refugees from Ypres, Belgium, WW1
Civilian refugees from Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Children arrive at Morat - Switzerland War of 1798
The arrival of the children of Stans at Morat, Switzerland - during the War of 1798, when the French captured the town. Painting by Albert S. Anker. Date: 1798

Belgian refugees watch British soldiers, WW1
Belgian refugees standing at the side of a road on the Western Front during the First World War, watching British soldiers marching by. Date: 1914-1918

Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, after bombing during the First World War. Date: 1915

Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1
Women refugees sewing army clothing in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. One woman is using a Singer automatic sewing machine. Date: 1917

British refugees from Penang, Malaya, on their way to Singapore, are provided with refreshments by local residents at Ipoh Station, in Perak

Displaced Scouts and Guides in Germany
A large group of displaced Lithuanian Scouts and Guides and their leaders sitting on a monument in Germany. 1940s

Santorini earthquake reportage, 1956
The aftermath of the Santorini earthquake, as reported in the Illustrated London News on July 21st 1956. Photographs of ruined buildings, refugees and rubble feature, as well as a short article

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