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In this lesson, you learn about liberators of the extermination camps and about the political, social, legal and emotional status of the Jewish survivors in Europe following the Holocaust. You also learn about Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps.

For more information about the DP Camps, click here.

In this lesson, you also learn about the complex dilemmas Jewish survivors faced in the shadow of the Holocaust. Most Holocaust survivors made the decision to leave Europe, and rebuild their lives on different continents. The majority of them immigrated to Israel (then Palestine, ruled by the British until 1947) to establish a Jewish national homeland. For more information on the State of Israel, click here.

 

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Displaced Persons

Refugees

Holocaust Survivors

Return to Life (The Pain of Liberation)

Encyclopedia Encyclopedia

Liberation

Repatriates

Photographs Photographs

Berlin, Germany, April 4, 1945, A Soldier Raising the Russian Flag on the Reichstag
A Survivor Sitting Alone in Bergen-Belsen after Liberation, April 1945
Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 1945, Women Inside a Barrack
Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 1945, Two Survivors after Liberation
Bergen-Belsen, Germany, Female Prisoners in a Barrack at Liberation
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Children at the Time of Liberation
Auschwitz, Poland, 1945, Children after Their Liberation by the Red Army
Former Inmates after Liberation, Majdanek, Poland, 1944
Sarel Nechemya, About 14-Years-Old, Saying Kaddish Immediately after Vilna is Liberated, Ponar, Lithuania
Klooga, Estonia, Survivors from the Camp
Bergen-Belsen, Germany, A Group of Jewish Brigade Soldiers with Dr. Hadassah (Bimko) Rosensaft in the DP Camp
Leipheim, Germany, Jewish Soldiers in a DP Camp after the War
Feldafing, Bavaria, Germany, Registering the Population of the DP Camp  
Landsberg, Germany, 1947, The Camp's Boxing Team
Nizniow, Poland, Judith Mirski with Her Brothers and Sisters after Liberation
Sweden, Girls Who Survived Bergen-Belsen, after Liberation 
Lodz, Poland, 1947, Seven-Year-Old Gal'e Banek, after the War
Lodz, Poland, 1947, Ludwig Tzelniker, Postwar
Piotrolesie, Poland, August 1949, A Child in an Orphanage
The Orphanage at the DP Camp, Bergen-Belsen, Germany 
Bergen-Belsen, Germany, The Sports Team 'Hatikva' after the War 
Inmates on Bunks, at the Time of Liberation, Buchenwald
Hebrew Ketubbah (Jewish Marriage Contract), Bergen-Belsen DP Camp, Germany, 1946
The Transferring of Child Survivors from Bergen-Belsen to Sweden after the War
A Hanukkah Party for Child Survivors, Salonika, Greece, Postwar

Documents Documents

"We Don't Want Revenge" -- From a Speech Given by Dr. Zalman Grinberg, a Holocaust Survivor.

Artifacts Artifacts

A Page from a Memoir  Written in a Convalescence Home in Sweden after the War by a Jewish Child.

Online Exhibitions Online Exhibitions

Private  Zinovii Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell
Return to Life

Diaries and Letters Diaries and Letters

From the Testimony of Dr. Dov Levin about Returning Home and Encountering the Destruction
From the Diary of Dr. David Wdowinski about the Disappointment of the Liberated Prisoners
Edi Weinstein on Being Liberated by Russian Soldiers

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