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Författare/Upphovsman:

Fridtjof Nansen

Kreditera:

Nasjonalbiblioteket

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/170a3

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

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Beskrivning:

At the cemetery in Buzuluk. Approximately 80 corpses, mostly children, were buried in a common grave after the clothes were stripped off, to be used by the survivors. Fridtjof Nansen wrote in the telegram from Moscow to the Red Cross on Dec. 9, 1921: «(...) In churchyard was pile of about eighty corpses chiefly children all stripped as clothes required for survivors stop That was two days harvest of deathcarts (...)» One of the pictures from Russia in November and December 1921. On assignment from the International Red Cross, Fridtjof Nansen visited the regions that were the hardest hit by famine.

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