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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, September 14, 1958

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 bewildered refugee children West berlins tender problem v r 3 i parents Fry to make youngsters understand k Why Homes were Given up for crowded Camps w by Ernie staff writer caught in the tidal wave of refugees flooding the Camps of West Berlin daily Are hundreds of bewildered clutching their precious dolls or favorite they have left from their Homes in communist East the children Are too Young to under stand Why they have been torn from the Security of familiar surroundings and now must share a crowded bar with but How can parents explain to Wyttie minds Why they have left their their land everything they have worked for during a lifetime to flee to this strange refugee in a Brave Effort to keep things nor the children play with donated toys in makeshift nurseries or attend improvised kindergartens taught by Volunteer teachers at the but the Long trek and the new life u just there is air plane Ridic to West exciting for some terrifying for and at the end of the flight still another More crowd More chances Are that Many of the children will never know a truly Normal a a bed of their a Home in which they will not have to share with in the desperate housing Short age of West they will probably grow up in a crowded room waiting with their parents for a better place to it is Only when years have gone by that the children of refugee families realize Why their parents have left a world behind to flee to the free but it the moment there u oily question they can ask a when Are we going Home explaining discomfort and uprooted lives to the Little Onei is at Best a difficult the youngsters must share their Beds with tiny Escapee is examined by one of the refugee Camp september 1958 carriages line a West Berlin some of the very Young Rode to Freedom in the stars and stripes 1  
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