63 photographs of Holocaust survivors in the displaced persons camps in Europe, including group photos, portraits, studio photographs, and more. Europe, [ca. second half of the 1940s].
Collection of photographs of "She’erit HaPleitah" (the surviving remnants, i.e. Holocaust survivors) in Europe, including group photos of Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps, portraits, and studio photographs. Some of the photographs are titled on the back or bear handwritten dedications (in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew).
Including: • 12 photographs from the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp, Frankfurt am Main, most bearing the inked stamp "Foto-Robinson, Ffm.-Zeilsheim, Butznickelweg 1". • Two photographs from "Kibbutz Buchenwald". Notation on back of one photo: "Kibbutz Buchenwald Israel"). • Three photographs bearing ownership notation of "Meyer D. Bashein", representative of the Joint Distribution Committee (aka “Joint” or JDC) in the displaced persons camps, and senior officer of the American-run Displaced Persons Commission. • Group photo of youngsters holding up signs reading "Am Yisrael Chai" ("the People of Israel Live") and [Hebrew] "the Land of Israel without the Torah is like a body without a soul". • And more.
63 photographs, approx. 4.5X3.5 cm to 14X9 cm. Condition varies.