This is a photo of the Weichsel near Nickelswalde, Poland. This is the place from which many refugees started their journey to freedom in1945. In the background a row of trees can be seen on the opposite shore. In the foreground, grass leads down to the river.
Betty Puricelli, commissioned by the Conference of the United Mennonite Churches of Ontario to work with Latin American refugees in 1984, sits with a group of Hispanic children. Ontario Women in Mission supported her work. Photograph by Bill Bryson.
Used in CM 5-51-1. Great Trek, Mennonite leaving the Soviet Union during the Second World War; wagon standing near straw roof houses. Note located with photos reads: "Hermann Rossner, Prinzenstrasse 71 II, Duesseldorf, Ger."