![An elderly Yazidi woman tends to young children beside a half-constructed building in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp ... [LCID: ref01]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3aa90383-3d17-40e1-a341-5d566826b1bf.jpg "An elderly Yazidi woman tends to young children beside a half-constructed building in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp ... [LCID: ref01]")
An elderly Yazidi woman tends to young children beside a half-constructed building in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp where they live in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 7, 2015.
Item View![Refugee boys from Syria play on old tents in the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref09]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5915a02d-3892-4fc0-a3be-58958803d9ad.jpg "Refugee boys from Syria play on old tents in the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref09]")
Refugee boys from Syria play on old tents in the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 5, 2015.
Item View![A Syrian girl looks over the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref07]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8f4340b4-0a3d-4e98-87a3-5df41eec9a54.jpg "A Syrian girl looks over the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref07]")
A Syrian girl looks over the Domiz refugee camp outside Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. Sepember 5, 2015.
Item View![Displaced Iraqis wait for food distribution at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref05]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/39fd8fd4-458d-4971-be95-e2af59e2c205.jpg "Displaced Iraqis wait for food distribution at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref05]")
Displaced Iraqis wait for food distribution at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 2, 2015.
Item View![A Sunni man from Mosul, Iraq, prays as the sun sets over an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref04]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/91f96fe4-ff54-40c9-91f5-91ced6d37e7a.jpg "A Sunni man from Mosul, Iraq, prays as the sun sets over an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. [LCID: ref04]")
A Sunni man from Mosul, Iraq, prays as the sun sets over an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 2, 2015.
Item View![A mother checks on her sick daughter inside the container where they live in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, ... [LCID: ref03]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/4dbfb3a3-7d47-42a7-a84f-28058210faf6.jpg "A mother checks on her sick daughter inside the container where they live in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, ... [LCID: ref03]")
A mother checks on her sick daughter inside the container where they live in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp near Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. September 1, 2015.
Item View![Refugees displaced by violence in Syria board trucks at a transit center in Jordan that will take them to the Zaatari refugee camp ... [LCID: lp20]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/864965b3-f240-4163-9ff5-8cc8a8bfbe64.jpg "Refugees displaced by violence in Syria board trucks at a transit center in Jordan that will take them to the Zaatari refugee camp ... [LCID: lp20]")
Refugees displaced by violence in Syria board trucks at a transit center in Jordan that will take them to the Zaatari refugee camp in February 2014.
Item View![Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria wait at a transit center in Jordan for trucks that will take them to the Zaatari refugee ... [LCID: lp17]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a0406e83-69bf-4cd5-98b1-f6e904138488.jpg "Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria wait at a transit center in Jordan for trucks that will take them to the Zaatari refugee ... [LCID: lp17]")
Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria wait at a transit center in Jordan for trucks that will take them to the Zaatari refugee camp. February 2014.
Item View![Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria walk to a transit center in Jordan where they will be transported to the Zaatari refugee ... [LCID: lp05]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d4c323f5-f216-45f4-8c1e-21ebbbe9f2bc.jpg "Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria walk to a transit center in Jordan where they will be transported to the Zaatari refugee ... [LCID: lp05]")
Refugees displaced by the violence in Syria walk to a transit center in Jordan where they will be transported to the Zaatari refugee camp. February 2014.
Item View![A camp for refugees in Chad. 2005. [LCID: chad2]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5747e3ef-1291-4db2-9619-f37aed2d237e.jpg "A camp for refugees in Chad. 2005. [LCID: chad2]")
A camp for Darfurian refugees in Chad. Photograph taken in 2005.
In July 2004 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a Genocide Emergency for the Darfur region of Sudan.
Item View![Relief supplies in a refugee camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad5]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/806caf6f-e0ef-498b-842d-b3270325f137.jpg "Relief supplies in a refugee camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad5]")
Relief supplies in a refugee camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. Jerry Fowler, Staff Director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, visited in May 2004 to hear firsthand the refugees' accounts of the genocidal violence they faced and of being driven into the desert.
Item View![Refugees line up in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad4]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/f0fdca7e-436f-40de-b7ad-e6e309435ba6.jpg "Refugees line up in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad4]")
Refugees line up in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. Jerry Fowler, Staff Director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, visited in May 2004 to hear firsthand the refugees' accounts of the genocidal violence they faced and of being driven into the desert.
Item View![Refugees in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad3]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0dc7c4fd-a4d4-4139-89fe-e3b14d9f81e9.jpg "Refugees in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. [LCID: chad3]")
Refugees in a camp in eastern Chad for refugees from the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan. Jerry Fowler, Staff Director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, visited in May 2004 to hear firsthand the refugees' accounts of the genocidal violence they faced and of being driven into the desert.
Item View![International Red Cross Poster showing photographs of children in refugee camp in Chad. [LCID: chad1]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1ef6f3cc-21a9-40ff-945d-ea64e6794413.jpg "International Red Cross Poster showing photographs of children in refugee camp in Chad. [LCID: chad1]")
International Red Cross Poster showing photographs of children in a refugee camp in Chad. Titled "Help us find our family." Chad, 2005.
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