An assist from Church World Service.

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#P-7935

AN ASSIST FROM CHURCH WORLD SERVICE

BOSTON -- THIS HAPPY REUNION WAS EFFECTED LARGELY

BY CHURCH WORLD SERVICE, PR0TESTANT INTERDENOMI

NATIONAL RELIEF AGENCY. AT LEFT IS ALEX AFANA OF

WINTHROP, MASS., WHO, WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER

(AT RIGHT) CAME HERE TO MEET THE BOAT BRINGING 808

DISPLACED PERSONS FROM EUROPE. ANXIETY TURNED TO

GLADNESS WHEN AFANA SPOTTED HIS BROTHER PETER

AFANASIEW AND PETER'S WIFE AND CHILD (CENTER)

COMING DOWN GANGPLANK.

CREDIT MUST READ:

RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (O'C-80S-11D-8-JOG-P)

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Title: An assist from Church World Service.
Description: Church World Service reunites a family. Left to right: Alex Afana, Winthrop, Mass sponsor for brother, wife, and child, Mrs. and Mr. Peter Afanasiew, daughter Lillian, 9. Mrs. Alex and daughter Helen at right.
Date: 1948
ca. 1948
Subject names: Religious News Service--Archives.
Church World Service.
Afana, Alex.
Afanasiew, Peter.
Topics: Refugees--Europe.
Refugee families--Europe.
Missions
Geographic subject: Europe.
Boston (Mass.)
North and Central America--United States------Suffolk--Massachusetts--Boston----
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Geographic subject: Boston (Mass.)
Form: acetate negatives
Extent: acetate negative : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches
Physical location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18A, image no. P-7935; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...
Rights status: IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-7935
PID (Persistent Identifier): islandora:148607