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791. Kowalski, Edward

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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:
1938-05-13T00:00:00Z
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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

792. German-Romanian Parley for the Surrender of Bucharest (December 1916)

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A German officer meets with Romanian officers under a white flag of truce to negotiate the Romanian surrender of Bucharest in December 1916. The German officer delivers the terms of the surrender in the offered envelope.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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793. American Football Game at Rastatt

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American POWs continued to play baseball, football, and volleyball in German prison camps with sports equipment supplied by the YMCA. U.S. soldiers are in the middle of a football game on the compound at Rastatt with a sizeable crowd of spectators cheering them on. The POWs barracks stand in the background.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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794. Fifty Pfennig Script Bill from Merseberg

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This is an example of a 50-Pfennig bill used by prisoners in the camp at Merseberg. POWs could make purchases in the camp using this script.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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795. Cricket Team at Ruhleben

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A cricket team prepares for a match on the pitch on the infield of the race track at Ruhleben. One of the grand stands can be seen in the back of the photograph.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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796. Russian Church Choir at Worms

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Members of a Russian choir perform a hymn in front of the altar at the prison chapel at Worms. While there is a Greek Orthodox cross on top of the altar, a Roman cross is stiched on the altar cloth which suggests that his chapel was also used by Catholic and Protestant prisoners as well. Note the arm bands on the upper left arms of the POW's to designate their prisoner status.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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797. French and Belgian POWs Eat Soup at Zossen

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Smiling French and Belgian prisoners pose for a photograph with their bowls of soup in hand at the prison camp at Zossen (including one French North African POW standing on the left side of the photo). These pictures of content prisoners with lots of soup were distributed in the West to counter Allied accusations of starvation in German prisons.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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798. View of the Prison Camp at Bad Colberg

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Aerial view of the prison camp facility at the thermal springs at Bad Colberg. Allied officers lived in the building marked with the "X" to the left of the picture. The drawing depicts the Kurhaus near the town in the Thueringian Forest, amid the rolling hills.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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799. Allied Cemetery at Koenigstein

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Photograph of the well-tended prison camp cemetery at the officers' camp at Koenigstein. Most of the graves are decorated with flowers and plants and protected by iron railings.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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800. Sherif Bey--Commandant of the Turkish Prison Camp at Kastamuni

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This sketch shows Sherif Bey, the commandant in charge of the prison camp at Kastamuni during World War I.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries