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Everything Possible: JDC and the Children of the DP Camps

These Jewish displaced children, many of them survivors of concentration camps, were sent to Palestine by ship from Naples. Italy functioned as a major departure point for both legal and illegal immigration. Italy, c. 1945, <em>Wagers, Signal Photo Platoon.</em> Children, mostly orphans from children's centers in the U.S. Zone, danced at Funk Kaserne in Munich. JDC paid for their passage to Marseilles, and then Haifa. Germany, c. April 1946, <em>Wlad Groman, UNRRA.</em>

The Underground Network

The "Bricha" (Flight) organization smuggled thousands of Jews from one occupied zone to another, country to country, and finally, to Palestine. JDC provided funding and supplies and used its diplomatic contacts to open borders for Jewish refugees escaping from Eastern Europe and the DP camps to Mediterranean seaports and ships to Palestine.
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