1

Report card issued to Cilia Rudashevsky by the Hebrew school in the Leipheim displaced persons camp.

2Children learn a religious text from an Orthodox Jewish teacher. Landsberg displaced persons camp, Germany, 1946-1947.

3

Lyrics to the Jewish national anthem and portraits of Zionist leaders hang in a classroom. Feldafing displaced persons camp, Germany, after April 1945.

4

Jewish displaced persons study watchmaking in the Foehrenwald Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) school. Foehrenwald was the final displaced persons camp to close, functioning until 1957 as a home for Jews who had no place to go. Foehrenwald, Germany, 1953.

5

School children in the Santa Cesarea displaced persons' camp.

6

Jewish youth attend a class on transplanting seedlings, part of a general course in farming sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. Germany, August 1, 1946.

7

A math lesson at the elementary school in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

8

A lesson on the geography of Palestine at the high school in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

9

ORT (Organization for Reconstruction and Training) certificate issued to Jewish DP Klara Schoenthal for completing a dressmaking course in the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp.

10

Under the guidance of an ORT instructor, Jewish DPs learn bricklaying by constructing a small brick building at a Jewish displaced persons camp in Linz.

11

Assorted election signs are posted on the outside wall of a barracks in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

12

Campaign poster at the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp for the Labor Zionists.

The text reads: Block 1 is not Ben Gurion. It is Ratner and Shlomowicz who do not represent the masses.

Vote for Block 5 -- the workers for the Land of Israel."

13

Jewish police supervise the voting during elections in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

14

Jewish displaced persons put up signs demanding open immigration into Palestine. Feldafing displaced persons camp, Germany, after May 1945.

15

Jewish survivors in a displaced persons camp post signs calling for Great Britain to open the gates of Palestine to the Jews. Germany, after May 1945.

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Front page of a newspaper from Landsberg displaced persons camp. Germany, November 15, 1945.

17

Yiddish language election poster issued by the Zionist Ichud party in the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

18

Jewish refugees protest British immigration policy in Palestine. Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, Germany, between 1945 and 1948.

19

A group of young displaced persons (many wearing Zionist uniforms) stand in formation at the Eschwege displaced persons' camp.

20Election committee members distribute campaign posters in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

21

A large crowd gathers for a Zionist political meeting in Zeilsheim displaced person's camp.

22Group portrait of the Jewish police in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.

23

DPs of many nationalities take part in a flag ceremony at the Hagenow displaced persons camp.

24

Jewish displaced persons receive bread rations at the Bindermichl displaced persons' camp in Linz.

25

Letters pour into "Missing Persons" bureau in Frankfurt as UNRRA tries to bring together war-separated families.

26

Halina Bryks holds a name card intended to help any of her surviving family members locate her at the Kloster Indersdorf DP camp. This photograph was published in newspapers to facilitate reuniting the family.

27

Exhibition sponsored by the World Jewish Congress on efforts to trace survivors of the Holocaust and reunite families.

28

Bela Milstein and Jacob Gutman stand under a chuppa [wedding canopy] during their marriage ceremony in the Mittenwald displaced persons' camp.

29

Portrait of a Jewish couple and their baby son in the Deggendorf displaced persons' camp.

30Personalized Jewish New Year's card with a photograph of the Weiss family in the Rosenheim displaced persons camp.

31

Two young women pose with their toddlers at the Eschwege displaced persons' camp.

32

A family of Jewish DPs poses with their newborn at a circumcision ceremony in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

33

Medical staff attend to infants at the children's clinic in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, which was in the American occupation zone of Germany. Zeilsheim, Germany, postwar.

34Two bakers prepare Passover matzah in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

35

Jewish DPs study religious texts in a synagogue in the Mittenwald displaced persons camp.

36A theatrical troupe in performs in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

37

Group portrait of members of an athletic team with their coach at the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

38Boxing match in the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp.

39

Close-up portrait of a kosher butcher in what [probably is the Windsheim] displaced persons' camp.

40

Group-portrait of workers in the kosher kitchen surrounding a large vat in what [probably is the Windsheim] displaced persons' camp.

41Jewish DPs at the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp unroll chicken wire for their gardens.

42

Funeral procession in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.

43Displaced persons attend a Passover seder in the Hasenecke DP camp.

44

Jewish displaced persons celebrate a wedding in the Pocking DP camp.

45

Wedding of Hela and Szulim Bronner in the Weiden displaced persons camp.

46

Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in the shape of a hewed tree erected at the Ziegenhain displaced persons camp.

47

Jewish DPs march with banners and flags in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp to commemorate the Jewish victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

48

Jewish DPs united to call for the end to Immigration restrictions to Palestine and the creation there of a Jewish state.

49

DPs in the Landsberg displaced persons camp attend a demonstration to protest against British immigration policy to Palestine.

50Jewish displaced persons in the Hallein camp celebrate Israel Independence Day.

51

Displaced persons protest the forced return to Germany of passengers from the refugee ship "Exodus 1947." British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is hanged in effigy. Germany, September 7, 1947.

52

Displaced persons are given a trade test to see if they qualify for admittance into Canada.

53

A woman waves farewell to displaced persons leaving Germany on a decorated U.S. Army train.

54

A political cartoon illustrating the obstacles impeding the emigration of displaced persons to the United States.

55

A political cartoon illustrating the obstacles impeding the immigration of displaced persons to the United States.

56

Certificate of identity in lieu of passport issued to Tobiasz Gross prior to his immigration to the United States.

57

Manius Notowicz aboard the ship Marine Flasher just before leaving for the United States in May 1947.

58

Jewish DP children raise the US flag as their ship enters New York Harbor (1948)