Left: Young refugees arrive from the Polish occupied territories to repatriate West Germany; 1948. Right: At a Budapest railway station, two refugees, possible a mother and her young son, wait for an adequate and open-hearted response to the refugee crisis in Europe; 2015.Photos courtesy of Bundesarchiv and Rebecca Harms

Left: After working as a forced laborer, a liberated Polish refugee sits with his possessions as he waits to be repatriated, 1945. Right: Near a bus station in Budapest, Hungary, Syrian refugees cover up under blankets, 2015.Photos courtesy of Imperial War Museums/Mstyslav Chernov

At an UNRRA camp, displaced persons watch a Mother's Day ceremony in 1946.Photo courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek/Abraham Pisarek

Though separated by 70 years, the struggles of refugee life are much the same. On the left, refugees and displaced persons arrive in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, 1945. On the right, Middle Eastern refugees wait in a Vienna train station en route to Germany, 2015.Photos courtesy of Bundesarchiv
Left: After working as a forced laborer, a liberated Polish refugee sits with his possessions as he waits to be repatriated, 1945. Right: Near a bus station in Budapest, Hungary, Syrian refugees cover up under blankets, 2015.Photos courtesy of Imperial War Museums/Mstyslav Chernov
At an UNRRA camp, displaced persons watch a Mother's Day ceremony in 1946.Photo courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek/Abraham Pisarek
Though separated by 70 years, the struggles of refugee life are much the same. On the left, refugees and displaced persons arrive in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, 1945. On the right, Middle Eastern refugees wait in a Vienna train station en route to Germany, 2015.Photos courtesy of Bundesarchiv
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