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Photo ID: 958522
Title:

Mucha Album Pg 11 Photo 3

Description:

Mucha Album Pg 11 Photo 3

Source:

Krystyna Mucha

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 948375
Title:

Maria Wójcik and her mother Józefa

Description:

Masindi, Uganda, 08 July 1946

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Uganda

City/Town/Village:

Masindi, Bunyoro

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Photo ID: 949434
Title:

Tengeru Church (with apparition?)

Description:

This shot of the Migut children, taken in the 1940s in front of the church in the Tengeru camp, faded over time, but upon closer inspection, an image of the Virgin Mary / Blessed Mother can be seen in the background ...

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949445
Title:

Native worker

Description:

Native worker near Tengeru camp

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 949467
Title:

Jadwiga Migut

Description:

Jadwiga Migut, matriarch of Migut Family

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 958442
Title:

Patients in Loliondo Hospital for those suffering from tuberculosis.

Description:

Maria Leduchowicz kneeling next to a child patient. Her sister Frania is at the far right. Photograph provided by Maria (Leduchowicz) Kubiak-Czajka.

Source:

Maria Leduchowicz

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 958493
Title:

Mucha Album Pg 16 Photo 2

Description:

Mucha Album Pg 16 Photo 2

Source:

Krystyna Mucha

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 947301
Title:

Irena Kuś and friend, in Masindi

Description:

Irena Kuś and friend, in Masindi

Source:

Irena Kuś

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Uganda

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Photo ID: 947414
Title:

Anna and Irene 30 August 1946

Description:

Anna and Irene 30 August 1946

Source:

Irene Tomaszewski

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 948860
Title:

Wanda Bieronska

Description:

My grandfather labelled this image saying that Wanda was 17 at the time. Wanda disagrees, and says that she was pregnant with 1st, possibly second child

Source:

Tamara Bulmer

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Zambia

City/Town/Village:

Civilian, Northern Rhodesia

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Photo ID: 949435
Title:

1950 in Tengeru, before leaving Africa…

Description:

(L-R) Joe, Bronia, Stanley, Jadwiga and Jan Migut

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949456
Title:

Jan (John) Migut in band in Tengeru orphanage

Description:

John is in the front (middle) with the drum.

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 948377
Title:

Maria Wójcik in Masindi

Description:

Maria Wójcik in Masindi

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Uganda

City/Town/Village:

Masindi

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Photo ID: 949446
Title:

Native worker

Description:

Native worker near Tengeru camp

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 949457
Title:

Priests on Palm Sunday

Description:

Jan (John) Migut (far right) in Palm Sunday Procession

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 958435
Title:

Staff at Kidugala Hospital

Description:

Some of the staff at Kidugala Hospital with Maria Leduchowicz second from the right. Other nurses pictured include – Sister Tomaszewska, H. Drozycka, S.Mucha, J.Kuncewicz.

Source:

Maria Leduchowicz

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

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Photo ID: 958494
Title:

Mucha Album Pg 16 Photo 1

Description:

Mucha Album Pg 16 Photo 1

Source:

Krystyna Mucha

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949436
Title:

1950 in Tengeru, before leaving Africa…

Description:

(L-R) Joe, Bronia, Stanley, Jadwiga and Jan Migut

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949447
Title:

Native Swahili

Description:

Native Swahili

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949477
Title:

Alice and Janina (Alice holding the cat) in Uganda

Description:

Alice and Janina (Alice holding the cat) in Uganda

Source:

Terese Umbras Fehlberg

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Uganda

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Photo ID: 947419
Title:

Anna in Tengeru

Description:

Anna in Tengeru

Source:

Irene Tomaszewski

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 948378
Title:

Maria Wójcik in Masindi

Description:

Maria Wójcik in Masindi

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Uganda

City/Town/Village:

Masindi

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Photo ID: 949437
Title:

Scouts in Tengeru

Description:

Scouts in Tengeru

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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Photo ID: 949458
Title:

Priests on Palm Sunday

Description:

Jan (John) Migut (far right) in Palm Sunday Procession

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 958436
Title:

Maria, Frania and their mother in Tengeru

Description:

Tengeru was the largest settlement in East Africa and was located approximately eighteen miles from Loliondo.

Source:

Maria Leduchowicz

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

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Title:

Masindi Job Reference

Description:

Job reference issued when leaving for England.

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Uganda

City/Town/Village:

Civilian camp, Masindi, Bunyoro

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Photo ID: 948379
Title:

Józefa Wójcik in Masindi, 1946

Description:

Józefa Wójcik in Masindi, 1946

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Uganda

City/Town/Village:

Masindi

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Photo ID: 948906
Title:

Hut in Tengeru

Description:

Typical grass hut in which the refugees lived.

Source:

Wanda Gillon

Time Period:

During WWII

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Photo ID: 949448
Title:

Native Swahili

Description:

Native Swahili

Source:

Greg Archer Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru, Arusha

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Photo ID: 949459
Title:

Stanley MIgut

Description:

Stanley MIgut

Source:

Stanislaw Migut

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Tanzania

City/Town/Village:

Tengeru

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