(79828) Ethnic Communities, Belgian, Refugees, World War I, 1915

Father Syoens, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, poses with some of the 116 Belgian war refugees he helped bring over from Eastern Flanders. The majority of the refugees had family already established in the area and settled on Detroit's lower east side.

(79828) Ethnic Communities, Belgian, Refugees, World War I, 1915
Date: 
1915-08
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Photograph