Noam Elimelech. Holocaust DP Camp FERNWALD judaica book

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Noam Elimelech printed in the Holocaust DP camp [Sheirit Hapleita]. FERNWALD 1947 . 176 pp. 20 x 14.5 cm. FERNWALD - Immediately after the liberation, t were 50,000–75,000 Jews in the western part of occupied Germany . In the first few weeks after the war, hundreds of displaced-persons camps were set up provisionally in this area for people who did not want to return to their countries of residence, among them many Jews. In August 1945, the Harrison Committee (appointed by President Truman to investigate the plight of the displaced persons) reported to the American Army on the desperate condition of Jews in the displaced-persons camps. As a result of the report, special camps with improved conditions were set up for Jews in the American occupation zone and, some time later, in the British zone as well. The Soviets, for their part, persistently refused to recognize the Jews as a distinct group and did not establish special camps for them. The population of the displaced-persons camps in Germany , in Austria , and also in Italy kept growing, mainly because Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe continued to arrive. At the end of 1946, as a result of a mass flight of Jews from Poland (in the wake of the Kielce pogrom), t were about 15,000 Jews in the British occupation zone, 140,000 in the American occupation zone (mostly in Bavaria ) read more

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