The YIVO Institute and UN joint project runs through Feb. 23 in NYC, focusing on the day-to-day lives in DP camps of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors with nowhere to go
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Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.”
The Wedgwood arriving in Haifa, 1 July 1946. (Donated to the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa by Brigadier General Nir
Maor/ Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0)
Rabbi Abraham Klausner, hatless, center-left, with survivors in the displaced persons camp. (Courtesy Amos Klausner)
Yehuda Arazi with David and Paula Ben-Gurion in Israel. (Courtesy Orli Bach)
Famous photo of Avengers partisan group led by Abba Kovner. Kneeling in the front aiming his gun is Benjamin Levin. (public domain)
Children rescued from Nazi concentration camps in Europe arrive at the Atlit detention camp near Haifa in 1945. (GPO)