Ebensee

A DP camp in the American occupied zone of Austria, Ebensee was made up of wooden barracks. After the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp on May 6, 1945, the area was converted into a DP camp. Ebensee consisted of four separate barracks where roughly 500 Jews were interspersed amidst a majority of Polish DPs. There was tension between the Polish and the Jewish inmates; the camp’s UNRRA administration was made up entirely of Polish citizens, save one Jew. The Jewish inhabitants of the camp often complained of the administration’s discrimination against them. As a result of Judah Nadich’s (General Eisenhower’s first advisor on Jewish affairs in Europe) investigation of the Jewish DP situation in Ebensee, the Jews were moved to hotels in Bad Gastein.