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Jewish refugees at a station along the Brihah ("flight") route to Palestine. [LCID: 79498]
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Brihah

Brihah (the Hebrew word for "flight, escape") was the name given to the organized unauthorized emigration of Jews from eastern Europe into the Allied-occupied zones and Palestine or Israel after the Holocaust. It is estimated that at least 150,000 Jews reached displaced persons camp (and, subsequently, Palestine or Israel) with the help of this movement. Explore more content related to the postwar brihah.

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Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman [LCID: lda0699f]
Oral History
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes postwar emigration with the Brihah movement
Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Parita," carrying 850 Jewish refugees, lands on a sandbank off the Tel Aviv coast. [LCID: 13000]
Article
Aliyah Bet
Polish Jewish refugees, part of the Brihah (the postwar mass flight of Jews from eastern Europe), arrive in Vienna. [LCID: 88783]
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Brihah
Media Essay
Brihah - Photograph
Jewish refugees, part of the Brihah movement (the postwar mass flight of Jews from eastern Europe), sleep on a crowded floor on the ... [LCID: 80973]
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Crowded conditions for Jewish refugees
Felix Horn [LCID: fha0598m]
Oral History
Felix Horn describes postwar emigration with the Brihah movement and adjustment to life after the war
Jewish refugees, part of Brihah—the postwar flight of Jews—in line at a relief center. [LCID: 46451]
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Jewish refugees at a relief center
German Jewish orphans arrive at the Marseille railroad station, en route to Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration). [LCID: 66055]
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Orphans arrive at a railroad station

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