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unknown, fl. 1946-1949 [Photographs of scenes from Jewish displaced person camps throughout Germany][Decimalized .01-.23]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09956 Author/Creator: unknown, fl. 1946-1949 Place Written: Germany Type: Header Record Date: 1946-1949 Pagination: 23 items Order a Copy

This is a collection of 23 photographs dated 1946-1949 related to Jewish refugees at displaced persons camps throughout Germany. The camps pictured in the collection are Babenhausen, Dieburg, Wetzlar, Kibbutz Buchenwald, and Ziegenhain. The pictures portray the conditions of the camps as well as the refugees who lived there. From GLC09956.19-.23, images are of Jewish gravestones. Notably, GLC09956.23 is an image of the Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, known as "Holy Sands."

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