Refugees

Sep. 23, 1956 - The tragedy of a family: After ten years of peace the Lochovskis are still D-Ps and are without hope for the future. Typical of many families still living in West German Refugee Camps - now living on the charity of the German authorities since URO (United Nations Refugees Organisation) handed over - are the Lochovskis. Zenana was a forced labourer on a German farm having been sent there from her native Russia. Czeslaw, her husband, was a Polish male nurse who suffered similar fate. A few days after liberation they married. and now there are two children. but neither can return home to either of their native lands. Integration with the Germans is difficult and not popular with either side. An the last hope - emigration - is impossible because Czeslaw has TB as a result of his maltreatment and no country is prepared to take in an migrant with TB. And so this pathetic family continues to exist on a camp, making a pittance by working in the fields and growing their own vegetables and keeping hens. It is such as the Lochovskis that the United Nations associations is launching a new appeal this autumn, to carry on its work trying again to find the best solution for each individual case. Photo Shows The Lechovskis work on their little plot of land where they grow their food. Czeslaw, the father, is sick with TB and has a terrible problem before his

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Appeal Associations Authorities Continues Czeslaw Difficult Either Emigration Exist Fate Forced Grow Handed Hens Impossible Integration Keeping Labourer Lands Launching Maltreatment Migrant Neither Pathetic Plot Prepared Refugee Result Similar Solution Suffered Terrible Vegetables Zenana

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