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Echoes and Reflections

Survivors and Liberators

  

    Survivors, Zionism, and the State of Israel

 

 

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Background Article

Photographs

Documents

Letters

Additional Information

Encyclopedia Encyclopedia

American Joint Distribution Committee

White Paper of 1939

Ben-Gurion, David

Yishuv

Beriha Movement

Youth Aliya

Exodus 1947

Zionism

She'arit Hapleta (The Surviving Remnant)

Zionist Youth Movement

Weizmann, Chaim

Background Article Background Material

"The Survivors of the Holocaust" by Anita Shapira and Irit Keynan (overview article)
The Bericha: Survivors' Journey Towards a New Life (online animated exhibition)

Photographs Photographs

Buchenwald Survivors aboard the Illegal Immigrant Ship Meteora, Haifa, Israel, July 1945
An Assembly in Honor of the Declaration of the State of Israel, Landsberg, Germany, May 16, 1948
David Ben-Gurion during a Visit with Members of the Jewish Agency, Munich, Germany
The Ship Exodus
Two Girls, Members of the Beriha Movement, Marseille, France, 1947
Yosef Hillpshtein and Friends, Members of the Beriha Movement, Cracow, Poland, Postwar
Chaim Weizmann with U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Washington, D.C., July 18, 1948

Testimonies Documents

Shoshana Stark, “I Decided, I’m Not Staying Here”
Zvi Katz on Joining the Beriha Organization
Avraham Sadeh on Reaching Palestine
Two Approaches to the Jewish Exodus from Europe - Kovner vs Zuckerman

Diaries and Letters Letters

David Wdowinski on Hope and Fear of Going to Israel, 1945

Information Courtesy of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Lexicon of Zionism
Timeline of Events - 19401949

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