Storm tide in Hamburg 1962: Evacuated children

A group of children that was evacuated from the areas affected by the storm tide, spends a night in a provisional emergency camp in Pestalozzi School in Hamburg-St. Pauli on the 19th of February in 1962. All in all, 300 people died in the storm tide, several thousand people became homeless. Especially Wilhelmsburg, a part of Hamburg, was affected

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Affected Assistance Catastrophe Disasters Especially Evacuated Flooding Offerings Pauli Pestalozzi Provisional Sacrifice Salvation Spends Swelling Thatch Thousand Tide Wilhelmsburg

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