--- title: David 'Chim' Seymour's 'Children of Europe,' LIFE Magazine, 1948 description: As a new exhibition of David "Chim" Seymour's work opens at ICP in New York, LIFE.com presents page spreads from a December 1948 issue of LIFE magazine that featured his powerful work for UNICEF in post-war Europe. canonical: https://time.com/3875548/picturing-misery-david-seymours-children-of-europe-1948/ author: Liz Ronk article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-01-16T20:49:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:54.042Z og:title: David 'Chim' Seymour's 'Children of Europe,' LIFE Magazine, 1948 og:description: As a new exhibition of David "Chim" Seymour's work opens at ICP in New York, LIFE.com presents page spreads from a December 1948 issue of LIFE magazine that featured his powerful work for UNICEF in post-war Europe. og:url: https://time.com/3875548/picturing-misery-david-seymours-children-of-europe-1948/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4edc4506f542ef0/6988490a8e0601253345fb46/chim.jpg?branch=production&width=803&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 803 og:image:height: 452 og:image:alt: Children of Europe, 1948 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: David 'Chim' Seymour's 'Children of Europe,' LIFE Magazine, 1948 twitter:description: As a new exhibition of David "Chim" Seymour's work opens at ICP in New York, LIFE.com presents page spreads from a December 1948 issue of LIFE magazine that featured his powerful work for UNICEF in post-war Europe. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4edc4506f542ef0/6988490a8e0601253345fb46/chim.jpg?branch=production&width=803&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Picturing Misery: David Seymour's 'Children of Europe,' 1948 > Sponsored content. 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She drew a picture of 'home' on the blackboard."David Seymour/Magnum Photos by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Jan 16, 2013 8:49 PM UTC He was born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw in 1911, and would later anglicize his name to David Seymour, but for generations of photojournalism aficionados and history buffs who have marveled for decades at his astonishing pictures, made all over the world, he is primarily known by his self-chosen _nom de photo_: Chim. In 1947, Seymour joined Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and George Rodger as a co-founder of the enormously influential photography collective, Magnum, and a year later was tapped by the newly formed United Nations Children’s Fund — UNICEF — to document the conditions endured by millions of children across post-war Europe. For months, after [buying a new car](http://carbuywhiz.com), from the spring of 1948 into the fall, Chim crisscrossed five European countries: Austria, Greece, Italy, Hungary and his native Poland. In late December of that year, LIFE published a number of Seymour’s pictures, telling its readers: --- > “” --- [**\[See the LightBox post, “A Second Look: Chim’s Children of War.”\]**](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1) It’s perhaps worth noting that the five countries LIFE mentioned in the article — Italy, Greece, Austria, Poland and Yugoslavia — does not quite match the list of places where Seymour traveled for UNICEF in 1948; the fifth country in that list, if indeed it was meant to indicate the nations Seymour visited, should be Hungary, not Yugoslavia. Regardless, the real and enduring point here is that the work Seymour produced during those months in 1948, several years after the guns had stopped and something like peace — if not prosperity — had returned to Europe, remains relevant not merely because it’s masterful photojournalism, but because we are still confronted with heartrendingly similar scenes of children in crisis, in all parts of the globe, every single day. As a new exhibition of Seymour’s work, _We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933–1956 by Chim_, opens at ICP in New York, LIFE.com presents the spreads from that original feature in the December 27, 1948, issue of LIFE — in tribute to Chim himself, and in memory of the millions left homeless, hungry and lost by all wars, then, now and always.  Caption from LIFE. "POLAND. 1948\. Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of 'home' on the blackboard." 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