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Everything Possible: JDC and the Children of the DP Camps

The bulletin board at Babenhausen camp, near Darmstadt was a favorite gathering point for Jewish refugees from Poland seeking to be reunited with friends and family as they continued to arrive in the U.S. Zone. Germany, c. 1946, <em>Al Taylor.</em> These children escaped during the &ldquo;liquidation&rdquo; of the Radom ghetto after their parents were killed. A friendly Ukrainian family took them in. But the eldest boy was caught by Germans and transferred from one concentration camp to another. At the time of liberation, he weighed less than 80 pounds. JDC's Tracing Bureau located his sisters and brother in the Feldafing camp. They were later sent to the International Children's Center at Prien, until the youngest girl could grow well enough to pass the emigration physical. JDC would then help with visas and transportation to the U.S. Germany, c. 1947.

Reconnecting - Where Are You?

Survivors were desperate to learn the fate of loved ones. Many traveled from camp to camp to that end. Jews elsewhere also searched for relatives and friends whose fates were unknown. JDC's Tracing Bureau, in liaison with the U.S. Army, pursued hundreds of thousands of inquiries.
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