Exile & Remembering
A couple sits inside their tent in the newly formed Ein al Hilweh refugee camp in Beirut Lebanon. Photo by Myrtle Winter Chaumeny ©1948. UNRWA Archives
Near Jericho on December 14, 1948. Many Palestinian refugees were forced to live in the open air, among orchards, on their long march into exile. Source: Getty Images
February 11, 1956. Palestinian children in the Qalandia Refugee Camp in the West Bank, near Ramallah. John Chillingworth. Picture Post. Source: Hulton Archive. Getty Images
Palestinians in Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, established in Lebanon in 1952. Photo by S. Madver. UNRWA Archives
In the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in 1952. A barracks room is divided into several compartments to give a semblance of privacy to the families living in the camp. © 1952 UNRWA Archive. Photographer Unknown
Fawwar refugee camp before shelters were provided to house Palestinian refugees. It is situated in an isolated and barren region in the occupied West Bank near Hebron. © 1950s. UNRWA Archive
A young Palestinian woman carries her sleeping baby sister in the newly formed Mia Mia refugee camp near the ancient port of Sidon in Lebanon. © 1950 UNRWA Archive. Photographer Unknown