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Children of War

An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home in 1940.
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Rendered homeless by German bombs during the Blitz, a London boy points out his bedroom to friends in 1940.
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Survivors of the original 150 Polish citizens who walked from Lodz, Poland, Dec 14, 1945.
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Russian children eat molasses bread at a refugee camp, April 1, 1945.
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On Hiroshima's outskirts, homeless children huddle by a fire, September 1945.
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A German boy walks past the bodies of hundreds of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, May 20, 1945.
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via Washington Post / Life