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Quaker delegates of the American Friends Service Committee who set up a relief and rescue operation in Toulouse. France, January 1941.
Spanish refugee children interned in the Gurs camp. These children often helped members of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, in their relief work inside the camp. Gurs, France, 1943.
Vegetable gardens administered by the American Friends Service Committee as part of a Quaker relief effort for prisoners at the Gurs camp. Gurs, France, ca. 1943.
Prisoners in the Gurs camp work in gardens set up by the American Friends Service Committee. This Quaker organization provided relief to prisoners at Gurs. France, ca. 1943.
A woman (right) imprisoned in the Gurs camp stands with two Quaker delegates who worked for the American Friends Service Committee. Gurs, France, after January 1941.
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