Reference :
V-P-PS-N-00055-01
Date :
1952
Caption :
Palestinien refugees camp of Nahr El Bared, near Tripoli. A family is surveying the wreckage of their tent.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
reserved users only
Description :
At the back of the photo:
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY N°1094a
The severity of the winter in the Middle East brings bitter suffering each year to the refugees.
In the winter of 1950, for over a month, in Northern Syria temperatures remained at 36° below freezing and icicles hung in the camps.
This spring (1952) gales reaching a force of a hundred m.p.h. wrecked havoc in the camps along the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean. In one storm in the Gaza strip, where it rained for nine days consecutively, more than 30'000 refugees were rendered homeless, their mud huts being washed away and tents torn to ribbons by the fury of the wind and rain.
Original material :
negative
Resolution :
3500x2502
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
black and white
