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From left to right: Pinkus Schwarz, Maximillian Feuerring, Ewa Brzezinska and Hirsch Szylis outside Munich’s Lenbachhaus Municipal Art Gallery in 1948. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Jewish Museum Munich)
December 30, 2023, 2:44 am
Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust
‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war
By Bernard Dichek
Lydia Barenholz and Ruth Melcer, who attended Munich's post-war Hebrew high school together, are shown with some of the objects they contributed to the new exhibit, 'Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant.' (Daniel Schvarcz via JTA)
July 22, 2023, 10:36 am
Landmark exhibits shed light on post-Holocaust life in German displaced person camps
A collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum running through January 2024 tells the stories of tens of thousands in postwar limbo
By Toby Axelrod
Menachem Rosensaft, left, accompanies Israeli President Isaac Herzog, right, on a visit to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, September 6, 2022. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
September 8, 2022, 3:28 am
From concentration camp to DP camp: Why activist associates Bergen-Belsen with life
Holocaust remembrance activist Menachem Rosensaft says site’s transformation allowed his parents to again be treated as human beings who could ‘dream rather than endure nightmares’
By Toby Axelrod
Bad Reichenhall Mayor Christoph Lung (second from left) with a group of second-generation Holocaust survivors who came to see the Displaced Persons camps where their parents stayed in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, May 2022. (Alexander Vexler)
July 1, 2022, 10:15 pm
At former DP camps, children of survivors and Germans work through complicated pasts
Jews born in ashes of Holocaust visit picturesque towns where their parents saw postwar denazification of their persecutors’ society, find common bonds with Germans’ descendants
By Bernard Dichek
An official shows the signed document which proclaims the establishment of the new Jewish state of Israel declared by prime minister David Ben-Gurion, left, in Tel Aviv at midnight on May 14, 1948. (AP Photo)
May 5, 2022, 12:15 pm
Daily Briefing May 5: On Independence Day, digging up the roots of Israeli society
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes time out from his family BBQ to elucidate what it was like for Jews the days before and after May 5, 1948
By ToI Staff
Jewish refugees in 'Displaced Persons' camp in Germany after World War II. (Public domain)
March 26, 2022, 9:01 am
Amid today’s refugee crisis, author reflects on post-WWII abhorrence for Jewish DPs
Unlike the ‘outpouring of aid and invitations to resettle’ Ukrainian refugees, historian David Nasaw’s new book charts duel-loyalty paranoia, use of Jews as pawns in the Cold War
By Matt Lebovic
A picture shows the last remaining housing hut at the Jewish Museum of Cyprus in the port city of Larnaca on July 26, 2021. (Christina ASSI / AFP)
August 10, 2021, 4:44 pm
75 years on, harsh British detention of Holocaust survivors in Cyprus remembered
One of the last remaining metal huts that housed thousands of Jewish prisoners attempting to reach Israel will be the centerpiece of a new Jewish Museum in Larnaca
By Peter Martell
Joseph Dichek, bottom row left, at the Bad Reichenhall, Germany, displaced persons camp after the Holocaust. (Courtesy Bernard Dichek)
January 27, 2021, 4:31 pm
Why a year after the Holocaust, my parents are happy in DP camp photos
Survivors were largely overlooked by post-war officials following the genocide. Unable to go to North America or Israel, Jews spent a few carefree years in idyllic settings
By Bernard Dichek
At left: Israel ‘Srulik’ Segalovitch, now Ira Segalewitz and Regina Puter, now Ruth Brandspiegel, in screenshots from a Zoom reunion, top, and together as teenagers, bottom. (Zoom/ Collection of Ira Segalewitz); Top right: A handkerchief from Ruth that Ira kept, along with his DP camp school memory book. (Photo by Scott Segalewitz); Bottom right: Purim in the Hallein DP camp, 1950. Ira is 3rd from left, Ruth is center. (Collection of Ira Segalewitz)
November 20, 2020, 10:35 am
Friends from post-WWII Displaced Persons camp reconnect on Zoom after 69 years
After Ira Segalewitz chanced upon an article with the name of his teenage sweetheart Ruth Brandspiegel, a tearful reunion conjures stories of tribulations and childhood bliss
By Marshall Weiss
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch with the Krumbach Torah Ark. (Courtesy of Guernsey's)
September 15, 2019, 11:46 pm
Post-WWII Torah ark built by US soldiers in DP camp sparks battle between rabbis
Days before auction, unique religious artifact from Krumbach DP Camp pulled from sale, after original owner’s son claims Brooklyn’s Living Torah Museum has no right to sell it
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Children posing for a photo in hats that read 'Exodus 1947' in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. (Robert Gary/via JTA)
October 7, 2017, 2:52 pm
Incredible photos of Holocaust survivors from the SS Exodus up for auction
Under the hammer on October 31, journalist Robert Gary’s album of post-Holocaust life in DP camps is one of the highest-quality records to survive
By Andrew Tobin
DP card. In a policy paper drafted on 18 November 1944, the Allies coined the term "Displaced Persons," prescribed how the survivors of Nazi terror were to be treated, cared for, and returned to their countries of origin. (ITS)
April 23, 2017, 11:28 pm
Vast German archive holds the secret to combating Holocaust denial
Increased access to 30 million documents housed in the International Tracing Service helps fuel research, combat revisionism and bring closure to victims’ families
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Izak Sagui (left) and his long lost brother Shep Shell reunite after seven decades with their biological mother in 'Aida's Secrets.' (Courtesy)
May 22, 2016, 1:25 am
After 70 years, man born in DP camp meets unknown brother(s)
Film documents the unraveling of a family mystery as an Israeli man discovers that finding one brother in Canada is only beginning of his search for the truth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Birth statistics in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (Bad Reichenhall. English. ©YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Detail)
April 1, 2016, 6:10 am
Online DP camps collection is poster child of post-war Jewish rebirth
YIVO digitizes more than 1,000 handwritten and printed public communications reflecting Holocaust survivors’ political, cultural and religious resilience
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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