"President of the Central Committee and his nearest collaborators" from scrapbook. Officials representing various agencies attend a ceremony at the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin. Eleanor Roosevelt visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.
Flag created from clothing scraps by Ruth Lindenstrauss, a Jewish displaced person in Shanghai, China, ca. 1945. Harry Weinsaft of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, distributes Red Cross packages to Jewish DPs in Vienna. Members of the Bergen-Belsen Central Committee.
Generals Eisenhower and Patton tour the DP camp at Feldafing. During September 25-27, 1945, representatives from 40 assembly centers and communities convened in Bergen-Belsen for the First Congress of Liberated Jews in the British Zone of Germany. Samuel Haber, head of special services for the Joint Distribution Committee, observes a chess match
Fiorella LaGuardia, Director General of UNRRA, delivers a speech in Yiddish at the Berlin-Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in 1946. Lt. Gen. W. Bedell Smith interviews a group of children A wedding of two members of the Bricha organization
Neu Freimann residents greet General Dwight Eisenhower Portrait of Earl Harrison, 1945. General Dwight Eisenhower walks out of the camp synagogue during an official tour of Neu Freimann
Jewish DPs who have fled from Poland, are crowded together in a refugee shelter in Berlin. DPs working in the office of the Central Committee at Bergen Belsen. As this page from a U.S. Army magazine illustrates, Allied military and civilian agencies faced the overwhelming task of feeding, housing, and returning millions of people to their homelands.