“Fleeing is of all times”, says Erwin Joos of the Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum. “Calling these people war refugees is perhaps a bit too strong a word, but it was the period of the pogroms, the persecution of the Jews in Russia, such as those of Kishinev (Chisinau), Odessa or Kiev. Jews flee in panic to the major ports, Hamburg and Antwerp, and those kinds of people have drawn Eugeen Van Mieghem.”
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