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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 3: Hungarian refugee family (Bengali, Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-3-bengali-dacca-1957/
description: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca. A headline and photographs follow a ten-year-old Hungarian refugee girl, Edith Frankel.
section: Collection
---

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[![Chitra Katha photo poster No. 3: Hungarian refugee family, 1957 US poster: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-3-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-3-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)

# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 3: Hungarian refugee family (Bengali, Dacca)

A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca. A headline and photographs follow a ten-year-old Hungarian refugee girl, Edith Frankel, and her family after their arrival in the United States: at the airport, a supermarket, the United Nations, a park and a soda counter. The tell is card-stacking with a testimonial: selected scenes of abundance and a family member's quoted astonishment present the refugees' reception.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

সম্বলহীন পরিবারের প্রাচুর্য্যের সন্ধান লাভ

Issue No. 3.  Published weekly for U.S.I.S. Dacca by The Bengal Printing Works.
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Reading Room, Bulletin Board etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story)

A destitute family finds abundance

Issue No. 3.  Published weekly for U.S.I.S. Dacca by The Bengal Printing Works.
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Reading Room, Bulletin Board etc.
```

Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the Bengali photo captions and body columns are small and are not transcribed in full.

[← U.S. cultural mission to Burma, photo poster (Burmese, Rangoon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-cultural-mission-to-burma-photo-poster-1957/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 4: Sheep breeding in Pakistan (Bengali, Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-4-bengali-dacca-1957/)

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