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A refugee mother cries into the shoulder of her child after reaching safety in Austria. The woman knew nothing of her husband, who had joined the rebels for the fight for independence from Russian rule. In Budapest alone, an estimated 20,000…

A sad faced old man, huddled under a heavy coat, silently eats bread, cheese and a banana for breakfast in the school shelter. Some 6,000 Hungarian refugees poured across the border into Klingenbach, about 19 miles from Vienna.

Too young to grasp the meaning of their flight, a group of refugee children play a game of ball in the crowded temporary shelter by the Red Cross.

Shelter and a place to rest is provided the escapees by a former cadet school at Klingenbach, Austria. Clean blankets on dry straw are welcome beds for the Hungarian children and their weary parents.

Frightened and alone, a poorly clad little girl sits on a battered suitcase as she watches for her lost mother. The child became seperated from her parents in the escape across the Austria-Hungarian border, and Red Cross workers at Klingenbach her…

Young child holding her father's hand as they flee.

Wearily they come, too tired and too sad at leaving their homeland to be cheerful at the prospect of freedom. The family at left, fleeing the fighting at Magyarovar, has made its way across fields and through woods. The father pushes three of the…

Series of pictures on Refugees from Hungary. First picture shows children racing go-carts. Second picture shows a woman trying on coats at what appears to be a goodwill station. No information with the photographs.

Frozen Hungarians help one another to cross a bridge over the Sinsen Canal, which was damaged by a Soviet tank a few hundred yards inside the Hungarian Border near here Nov. 21st. The span known as the Bridge of Freedom, was fired upon by the…

Two black students who are being kept from the school by a picket line. Several people in the line are carrying signs that say 'No Mixed Classes' etc... No information given with this photograph.