Item ID	16832
Title	Polish refugee girls in white playing with a ball as a nun stands in the background.
Reference Code	NY_05886
Description	Polish refugee girls in white playing with a ball as a nun stands in the background. In 1941, the Polish Government in Exile requested that the JDC paid for the transportation and guaranteed the maintenance of 200 Polish Jewish men, women and children, who were in Portugal, and sent them to Jamaica. The refugee camp in Jamaica was spread over 250 acres, and was estalblished by the British Government to care for several thousand evacuees from Gibraltar.
City / Town	Kingston	similar items
Country	Jamaica	similar items
Decade	1940	similar items
Photo Date Description	c1942	similar items
Selected Search Code	Terra	similar items
Size	3 1/2 x 5 1/2
Format	Print

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