Soups

JANUARY 2026

Soups in Refugee Camps in Germany Post WWII. Photographs from the “Latvians Abroad” Museum Collection.

Germany

The collection of the “Latvians Abroad” museum preserves life stories that include memories of soup during refugee journeys and in refugee camps in Germany after the Second World War. The collection also contains photographs depicting food queues in the camps, where people—often holding homemade containers—stand in line for soup distributed from the camp kitchen. Several photographs show Scout and Guide groups eating soup during camps, while others depict soup as part of meals served in camp schools.

In Volterdingen, Germany, 1950.
On the banks of the Main River in 1947.
In Flensburg, Germany, 1948.
In the Hanau camp, Germany, in 1947.
In the Wedel camp, Germany, 1946.
In the Wentorf camp, Germany, 1950
At the YMCA camp in Pinneberg, Germany, 1949
At the Friedrichsort camp in Kiel, Germany, 1947.
In Memmingen, Germany, 1946.
Altgarges camp in Germany in the late 1940s.
At the Mēzene camp in Lübeck, Germany, 1948.

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