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Photographs — at work
Top: The driver's school. Present attendance 340 students. 260 driver's licenses have already been issued.
Center: Practical work in an automechanic's course attended by 34 students.
Bottom: Training course for joiners attended by 15 students.
Center: Practical work in an automechanic's course attended by 34 students.
Bottom: Training course for joiners attended by 15 students.
Left: Turning metal on machine-lathe.
Right above: Manufacturing of furniture for the camp in a joinery employing 45 joiners and 11 apprentices.
Lower right: Tire repair shop.
Right above: Manufacturing of furniture for the camp in a joinery employing 45 joiners and 11 apprentices.
Lower right: Tire repair shop.
Top: Shoemakers at work. 10 shoemakers are repairing about 600 pairs of shoes a month.
Bottom: Slippers made of old cloth in the hat and houseshoes manufacturing shop.
Bottom: Slippers made of old cloth in the hat and houseshoes manufacturing shop.
Above left: Wireless repair shop.
Below right: Watch repairs in the watchmakershop.
Below right: Watch repairs in the watchmakershop.
Left: Sewing section of the camp's Taylorshop.
Right: Baby bath-tubs and other household articles made out of old Army food tins in the tinsmithworkshop.
Right: Baby bath-tubs and other household articles made out of old Army food tins in the tinsmithworkshop.
As Peters' mother told the story, whenever they prepared relocate, his father had a habit of giving away their housewares to those that desperately needed them, rather than to pack them up and bring them along to a new DP camp — where, as soon as they settled in, he would then have to make a whole new set for themselves.
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