Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children's barracks. Poland, after January 27, 1945.
Item ViewRefugees crowd the rail of the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship Josiah Wedgewood, anchored at the Haifa port. British soldiers transported the passengers to the Athlit internment center. Palestine, June 27, 1946.
Item ViewAn ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) auto mechanics class at Landsberg displaced persons camp. This training prepared the students to emigrate to Palestine. Germany, postwar.
Item ViewJewish displaced persons in an ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) sewing workshop. Landsberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1947.
Item ViewChildren in the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp. Germany, 1945.
Item ViewJewish refugees, part of the Brihah (the postwar mass flight of Jews from eastern Europe), in a crowded boxcar on the way to a displaced persons camp in the American occupation zone. Germany, 1945 or 1946.
Item ViewPiles of corpses, soon after the liberation of the Mauthausen camp. Austria, after May 5, 1945.
Item ViewEmaciated survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Germany, after April 11, 1945.
Item ViewA survivor of the Bergen-Belsen camp, photographed soon after liberation. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after April 12, 1945.
Item ViewA class for new immigrants in the United States. Postwar.
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