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Pictured here are a group of children dressed up for
Purim in an orphanage in Brussels, Belgium in 1946. Among the six
million Jews who perished during the Holocaust, a million and a half
were children, most of them under the age of 15. After the war,
hundreds of thousands of survivors, including thousands of orphaned
children, emerged from the ruins of Europe and sought a way to
establish their lives anew. The Allies established camps for
displaced persons in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Concern for
children’s welfare was shown by setting up orphanages, a search
system for family members, and education systems. Many of the
children who had been orphaned were eventually brought to Palestine.
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