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4701. Conklin, Loren

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Transient application card documenting relief requests and authorizations to the destitute by Transient Bureau of Kalamazoo County, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, May 1933 - June 1943.
Date Created:
1938-05-18T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

4702. Turner, John

Notes:
Transient application card documenting relief requests and authorizations to the destitute by Transient Bureau of Kalamazoo County, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, May 1933 - June 1943.
Date Created:
1938-06-07T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

4703. Text analysis, Clemoes, Catholic Homilies, Homily I.28

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Aelfric's homily for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Dominica XI post Pentecosten) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies offers historical and allegorical interpretations of the episodes of Christ weeping over the fate of Jerusalem and driving the money-changers from the Temple (Luke 19:41-47), citing Gregory the Great as his source.
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Collection:
SS (Early English Text Society) ; 17 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies

4704. British POWs Eat Dinner in a German Prison Camp

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English and Scottish prisoners of war eat their dinners at outdoor tables at an unidentified German prison camp.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

4705. Allied POW in a Cage for Punishment

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For punishment for breaking camp rules, prison authorities would force prisoners into iron cages which were not large enough for the POW to stand up or to lie down. The prisoners' limbs were always cramped and many thought that this was the most severe form of punishment the Germans employed short of capital punishment.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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4706. Portrait of a Serbian POW at Muensingen

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With the collapse of the Serbian army in the 1915 Austro-German-Bulgarian offensive, German prison camps began to receive large numbers of Serbian POW's. This is a drawing of a Serbian prisoner at Muensingen.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

4707. Russian Theater Group at Muensingen

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Plays and theatrical performances allowed prisoners to develop their thespian skills and provided the general camp population with a source of entertainment. This photograph shows a Russian cast, which includes two men dressed in female roles, posing inside the theater at Muensingen.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

4708. Russian POW Plowing a Field at Muensingen

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A Russian prisoner is hard at work ploughing a field behind a team of horses under the walls of Lichtenstein Castle near Muensingen. Allied POW's supplemented local agricultural labor which allowed the Germans to maintain food production despite the mobilization of farmers into the German Army. This prisoner is leading a pair of horses; most farmers used oxen due to the army''s demand for horses at the front.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

4709. Cemetery Memorial and Graves at Muenster

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A view of the memorial to and some of the graves of Allied prisoners of war who died during their captivity at Muenster II. The Germans supported war prisoner efforts to memorialize their fallen comrades.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries

4710. French and Belgian Labor Detachment from Muenster

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A labor detachment of French and Belgian prisoners of war pull a wagon full of firewood on their way back to the prison camp at Muenster. Firewood was an important source of fuel to heat the barracks at night and to run the boilers, ovens, and stoves in the prison camp. Due to the wartime demand for horses by the German Army, the prisoners had to draw the wagons that carried many of the necessities for camp operations.
Date Created:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries