Wetzlar

Wetzlar was a DP camp in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone. The camp opened in September 1946 in a former military camp. The first DPs to inhabit the camp were from Cham and Berlin. Wetzlar had a large elementary school of 450 students in April 1946, two Talmud Torahs (religious elementary school), two yeshivot (religious academies), and a kindergarten with 95 children in April 1947. The Jewish population of the camp decreased from 4,200 in October 1946, to 3,700 two years later. Wetzlar closed on March 3, 1949.

 

Synagogue at the displaced persons camp in Wetzlar in 1948.