Jewish children, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship "Exodus 1947," stand behind a barbed-wire fence. [LCID: 37197a]
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British soldiers forcibly removed these Jewish children from the ship Exodus 1947

Jewish children, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship Exodus 1947, stand behind a barbed-wire fence. Photograph taken by Henry Ries. Poppendorf displaced persons camp, Germany, September 1947.

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