Europeana.eu - #OnThisDay in 1897, Salomon August Andrée left Spitsbergen in attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. The balloon lost hydrogen quickly and crashed on the pack ice after only
OSE relief worker, Andree Salomon, poses with a group of Jewish refugee children before their departure on a children's transport to the United States. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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