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Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel — Photograph

Eight-year-old Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau is held by a fellow  Buchenwald survivor, Elazar Schiff, as they arrive in Palestine aboard the RMS "Mataroa." Haifa, Palestine, July 15, 1945.

Eight-year-old Yisrael Meir (Lulek) Lau is held by a fellow Buchenwald survivor, Elazar Schiff, as they arrive in Palestine aboard the RMS "Mataroa." Haifa, Palestine, July 15, 1945.

— Central Zionist Archives



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