Bialik kindergarten class in the Mariendorf DP camp
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Bialik kindergarten class in the Mariendorf DP camp

Bialik kindergarten students pose together in the Mariendorf displaced persons (DP) camp, circa 1946–1948. The children hold a banner that reads, "Ch, N. Bialik Kindergarten." A portrait of Theodor Herzl hangs on the back wall. Above the portrait is is a Hebrew banner that reads "Our children, the future of our nation."

Benjamin Markowicz is in the fourth row, second from the left.


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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Pessia Polak
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