German mother is awarded the Cross of Honor of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter, or simply, Mutterkreuz).
It was a state decoration and civil order of merit conferred by the government of the German Reich to honor a Reichsdeutsche German mother for exceptional merit to the German nation.
The decoration is a neck order and thus is worn around the neck on its accompanying narrow blue and white ribbon.

Cross of Honor for mothers

This is a part of WW2 history I knew nothing about...

Heartbreaking photos of the Polish refugee camps in Iran during WWII.
During World War II thousands of Poles who had been sent to Siberia after the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland managed to leave the Soviet Union with theAnders’ Army. They ended up in Iran, India, Palestine, New Zealand, British Africa, as well as in Mexico.
In 1939, following German and Soviet attacks on Poland , the territory of the Second Polish Republic was divided between the two invaders. Eastern Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union, and soon afterward Moscow began a program of mass deportations . Hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens were forced to leave their homes and were transported to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and other parts of the Soviet Union. There were several waves of deportations during which whole families were sent to different parts of the Soviet Union...

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Refugees

Men of Civil Defence heavy and light rescue teams and men of the National Fire Service (NFS) listen for survivors as they search a cavity in a large pile of rubble, timbers and debris following a V1 attack in the Highland Road and Lunham Road area of Upper Norwood, in South London; June 18, 1944.