Sinaida Grussman was photographed in the Kloster Indersdorf children's center after the war. The picture was taken in an attempt to help locate surviving relatives. Such photographs of both Jewish and non-Jewish children were published in newspapers to facilitate the reunification of families. Germany, after May 1945.
Item ViewJewish refugees, forcibly removed by British soldiers from the ship Exodus 1947, arrive at Poppendorf displaced persons camp. Photograph taken by Henry Ries. Germany, September 8, 1947.
Item ViewAt the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp, a boy displays the tattooed number on his arm to a photographer. Other children look on. Neu Freimann, Munich, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
Item ViewJewish refugees protest British immigration policy in Palestine. Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, Germany, between 1945 and 1948.
Item ViewRefugees protest British immigration policy in Palestine. They carry banners demanding a Jewish state. Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, Germany, 1946.
Item ViewJewish displaced persons put up signs demanding open immigration into Palestine. Feldafing displaced persons camp, Germany, after May 1945.
Item ViewJewish refugees work on a newspaper at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Germany, between 1945 and 1948. The newspaper was titled Unterwegs (The Transient).
Item ViewJewish youth attend a class on transplanting seedlings, part of a general course in farming sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. Germany, August 1, 1946.
Item ViewJewish refugees in front of the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" building, where Jews received agricultural training in preparation for life in Palestine. Buchenwald displaced persons camp, Germany, ca. August 1946.
Item ViewFront page of a newspaper from Landsberg displaced persons camp. Germany, November 15, 1945.
Item ViewA Hanukkah party for Jewish children at the Fuerth displaced persons camp. Gifts were contributed by families of Americans stationed at the Nuremberg military post. Germany, December 9, 1947.
Item ViewBoxes of matzah in a Joint Distribution Committee warehouse before distribution to Jewish survivors in displaced persons camps. Place uncertain, postwar.
Item ViewChildren learn a religious text from an Orthodox Jewish teacher. Landsberg displaced persons camp, Germany, 1946-1947.
Item ViewAn art class for children in the Fiesole displaced persons camp, outside Florence. Italy, 1946.
Item ViewHalina Bryks was photographed in the Kloster Indersdorf children's center in an attempt to help locate surviving relatives. Photographs such as this one showing children holding name cards were published in newspapers to facilitate the reunification of families. Germany, after May 1945.
Item ViewA British guard in a watchtower at Poppendorf displaced persons camp, after the arrival of Jewish refugees forced from the "Exodus 1947" refugee ship. Photograph taken by Henry Ries. Germany, September 1947.
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