Save the Children (STC), with the NAZI surrender (May 1945), was able to aid refugee children and displaced persons in UNRAA camps. Among those assisted were the Jewish Holocaust survivors and other survivors of NAZI concentration camps--tragically very few child survivors. Europe was awash with refugees and displaced persons including many children. Europe began to recover in the 1950s. We notice Swedish STC helping to find homes for German and Austrian orphans in Sweden into the early-1950s. We are not enirely sure why the orphans could not be found German adoptive parents and the caption does not explain why. The German Economic Mracle was underway by the early-50s. We assume that conditions were still not sufficently recovered in Germany to deal with all the orphan children. The children we see in the 1950s were not war orphans, given their age they would have been born after the War (figure 1). As Europe revovered, Save the Children began to take on its modern role and operations. Crisis-driven work continued with efforts to help refugees resulting from the Arab attempt to destroy Israel (1948-49). Here most of Save the Children's work was with Palestinian refugees rather than Jewish refugees. This was because Israel assigned a priority to integrateg Jewish refugees. The Arab states which invaded Israel on the other hand refused to integrate the Palestinian refugees and forced them to live in desolate tent camps, in part to create a propaganda tool. Other crises were the Communist North Korean invasion of South Korea (1950) and the Soviet supression of the Hungarian Revolution (1956).
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