The staff of the DP newspaper, Unterwegs [On the Way] at work in their office in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. Jewish orphans laugh during a performance at the Lindenfels displaced person's center for children in 1948. Five young DPs await a train at the Berlin-Wannsee train station.
This photograph shows one of the hundreds of orphaned children, Jewish and non-Jewish, who were housed at Kloster Indersdorf, an UNRRA assembly center in Bavaria. Halina Bryks holds a name card intended to help any of her surviving family members locate her at the Kloster Indersdorf DP camp. A board tallying the numbers and nationalities of arriving DPs in Austria.
Jewish DPs wash up in a pool at a displaced persons camp near Hagenow, Germany on May 30, 1945. Displaced persons often converted existing buildings in the assembly centers into synagogues, a central place in Jewish communal life. Neu-Freimann; Germany. Letters pour into "Missing Persons" bureau in Frankfurt as UNRRA tries to bring together war-separated families.
This photograph documents the marriage of Morris Fishman and Lala Weintraub. Exhibition sponsored by the World Jewish Congress on efforts to trace survivors of the Holocaust and reunite families.
A wedding party at the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp in 1946. A family of Jewish DPs poses with their newborn at a circumcision ceremony in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. This photograph documents their wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany.
Class picture of Donor's first school class in a DP camp in Steyr, Austria in 1946. Wedding gowns were rare in the DP camps and often were shared by many brides. Neu-Freimann, Germany
Cosmetology class, Bindermichl, Austria, ca. 1947-1948 Jewish DPs work in an auto mechanics workshop in the Landsberg displaced persons' camp. DPs in an ORT telegraph school at Berlin-Schlachtensee DP camp in 1946.
A newspaper kiosk in Neu-Freimann. This poster for the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) urges Jewish DPs not to stand idly on the sidelines but to "learn a trade for life!" A notice advertising a concert of Yiddish music is posted on a wall in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.
ORT diploma issued to Klara Schönthal for completing a dressmaking course. Neu-Freimann, Germany, August 22, 1947. Norbert Wollheim's membership card in the "Kazet Theater." Purim celebration in the Wittenau camp, Berlin, Germany, 1946
A survivor of the Kovno ghetto, Abe Malnik wore these boxing gloves when he fought as a light-heavyweight in the Landsberg DP camp. This program was produced for a special concert for the war crimes prosecutors and staff on May 7, 1946, in Nuremberg. This poster advertises boxing matches between two rival clubs in Austria. May 1947.
Two boxers sparring in the ring at a sports event at the Zeilsheim DP camp. Competitors line up at a sporting event at the Zeilsheim DP camp. Identification card issued by the Society of Jewish Sport organizations.
Baking matzah at a bakery in Frankfurt that escaped destruction by the Nazis. Solomon Waksc, the prize singer of the Children's Center School, lights a Hannukah menorah during a holiday celebration in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp in 1945. The interior of a synagogue in Hanau, Germany in 1945.
Personalized Jewish New Year's card sent by Josef Lipnicki, a Jewish DP living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. DP children perform a dance at a Hanukkah celebration at the Warburg children's home for Jewish orphans liberated from the concentration camps.