1

Morris (right) and Yitzhak Asner stand in front of a pile of scrap metal. [Photograph #39573]

2

Close-up portrait of Jewish serviceman Lt. Kurt Klein. [Photograph #43251]

3

Nahum Goldmann visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48684]

4

Portrait of U.S. Army chaplain, Rabbi Abraham Klausner, in a dining room. [Photograph #82281]

5

Portrait of Rabbi Stephen Wise seated at his desk. [Photograph #02789]

6

Harry Handel, a Jewish-American visitor (formerly from Drohobycz) surveys carpenters working inside a synagogue. [Photograph #66743]

7

A street vendor sells his wares on a street in a Jewish neighborhood of New York City. [Photograph #66189]

8

Shmuel Shalkovsky and another young man pose with Harry Biele, deputy director of the AJDC in Germany. [Photograph #60208]

9

Annie Vishubski Foster (left) poses with her mother, Feige Virshubski (center) and sister-in-law Lizzie Lapidus Virshubski while on a visit from America. [Photograph #40547]

10

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. [Photograph #89692]

11

Saul Sorrin uses the telephone in his office at the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp. [Photograph #21010]

12

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48686]

13

Close up portrait of Samuel Schulman, a young American-born Jewish boy in France. [Photograph #38167]

14

Four year old twins Ellinor and Evelyn Perl in a summer camp in upstate New York. [Photograph #29886]

15

Document granting Samuel Schulman, an American citizen, permission to work as a courrier in France for a six month period. [Photograph #38171]

16

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48690]

17

Portrait of American ambassador to Moscow, Laurence A. Steinhardt. [Photograph #46141]

18

Rosalind Foster carries a basket of fresh eggs during her visit to Eisiskes from America. [Photograph #40548]

19

Portrait of an American crew member of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus 1947. [Photograph #95601]

20

A crew member loads cargo onto the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947). [Photograph #64275]

21

Chaplains Emanuel Rackman and Herbert Friedman pose in front of the United States Forces, European Theater headquarters. [Photograph #30850]

22

Joseph Schwartz, European director of the American Joint Distribution committee, at work in his office in Lisbon. [Photograph #59607]

23

Joseph Schwartz, European director of the American Joint Distribution committee, at work in his office in Lisbon. [Photograph #59606]

24

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits a Holocaust memorial at the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48691]

25

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48689]

26

Rabbi Stephen Wise visits the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48688]

27

Studio portrait of Miriam Lipert and her father, Chaim Arye Chasan, taken on occassion of her visit from America. [Photograph #61953]

28

David Rosenstein poses with Mrs. Weismuller and Prof. Sonnabund, staff members of the Ilaniah children's home in Apeldoorn. [Photograph #45774]

29

Jewish serviceman Kurt Klein hikes in the mountains near Oberammergau where he had hiked with his family before immigrating to the United States. [Photograph #43249]

30

A visiting Jewish-American stands on the pulpit of the large synagogue in Drohobycz. [Photograph #66744]

31

Former Exodus 1947 crew members Bernard Marks and Benjamin Forman, walk down a Tel Aviv street after making their first jump as Haganah paratroopers. [Photograph #95609]

32

Portrait of Cyril Weinstein, an American crew member (third mate) of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus 1947. [Photograph #95602]

33

Close-up portrait fo Samuel Schulman, an American-born Jewish teenager living in hiding in southern France. [Photograph #38168]

34

Close-up portrait of Samual Schulman, a Jewish teenager born in America, standing on a bridge in Vincennes. [Photograph #38169]

35

Four year old twins Ellinor and Evelyn Perl in a summer camp in upstate New York. [Photograph #29885]

36

Wedding portrait of an American-Jewish serviceman and a Jewish refugee who came to England on a Kindertransport from Czechoslovkia. [Photograph #23540]

37

An estimated 100,000 people participate in a march from Madison Square Garden to the Battery to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #69040]

38

JDC executive Morris Troper at the European headquarters of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon. [Photograph #59609]

39

American Jewish philanthropist Abraham S. Kay (center) poses with James G. McDonald (left) and Samuel Sugar (right) at an affair in Washington, D.C. [Photograph #56184]

40

Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban attends an affair in Washington, D.C. [Photograph #56183]

41

Group portrait of displaced persons and HIAS personnel in Salzburg, Austria. [Photograph #49591]

42

Four crew members entertain themselves en board [what is probably the Atzmaut, Pan Crescent]. [Photograph #37525]

43

Fundraising appeal on behalf of the survivors from Kletz, sent by the Kletzker Landsmanschaft in New York. [Photograph #27252A]

44

Rosalind Foster relaxes on a hammock next to Dr. Leon Gordon. [Photograph #40550]

45

An estimated 100,000 people gather in front of Madison Square Garden in Manhattan to participate in a mass march to the Battery to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #74149]

46

Rabbi Stephen Wise looks at a photo album during his visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp. [Photograph #48687]

47

Rabbi Philip Bernstein, adviser on Jewish Affairs to the commander of the US forces in Europe, in conversation with an American military officer. [Photograph #42486]

48

JDC executive Morris Troper and his wife at the European headquarters of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon. [Photograph #59608]

49

U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz poses with a young woman at a summer camp for Jewish DP children in the Grunewald Forest. [Photograph #48787]

50

Fundraising appeal on behalf of the survivors from Kletz, sent by the Kletzker Landsmanschaft in New York. [Photograph #27252]

51

A crew member of the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) poses on the deck of the ship in Baltimore harbor. [Photograph #64271]

52

Rabbi Philip Bernstein, adviser on Jewish Affairs to the commander of the US forces in Europe, delivers a speech. [Photograph #42487]

53

Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the executive council of the World Jewish Congress, is led on a tour of the Lampertheim displaced persons camp. [Photograph #82287]

54

Thousands gather at an indoor arena in Cleveland to protest against the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #44155]

55

Jewish leaders attend a conference in the US Zone of Germany. [Photograph #42488]

56

Thousands parade through Columbus Circle in Manhattan in a march to protest against the Nazi persecution of European Jews. [Photograph #74150]

57

Neu Freimann director Saul Sorrin (third from the left) poses with other DP camp leaders in front of an outdoor stage used for public meetings at the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp. [Photograph #12981]

58

Group portrait of a Jewish family standing in front of the their grains stall in the Drohobycz marketplace. [Photograph #66740]

59

View from above of a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #74147]

60

A group portrait of impoverished Jews in Drohobycz standing in front of a stack of lumber. [Photograph #66742]

61

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise addresses the crowd at a D-Day rally outside Madison Square Garden. [Photograph #02802]

62

Outgoing chaplain, Rabbi Ernst Lorge (left) conducts Sabbath services with incoming chaplain, Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz in the chapel at U.S. Army Third Division headquarters in Bad Wildungen. [Photograph #96186]

63

Outgoing chaplain, Rabbi Ernst Lorge (left) conducts Sabbath services with incoming chaplain, Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz in the chapel at U.S. Army Third Division headquarters in Bad Wildungen. [Photograph #96185]

64

U.S. Army chaplain Mayer Abramowitz officiates at a wedding ceremony for displaced persons at Kibbutz Buchenwald in Geringshof. [Photograph #48794]

65

U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz attends a wedding in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [Photograph #48767]

66

American Jewish philanthropist Abraham S. Kay (right) shakes hands with James G. McDonald (left) at an affair in Washington, D.C. [Photograph #56185]

67

U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Mayer Abramowitz (right) escorts a member of a visiting international commission in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [Photograph #48793]

68

Murray Aronoff salvages a carton of cigarettes after the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) took on water and nearly sunk during its first attempt to cross the Atlantic. [Photograph #64277]

69

Members of the American communist party participate in a march through the streets of lower Manhattan to protest against the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #44186]

70

Rene Guttmann and his escorts during a stopover in Frankfurt on their way to the United States. [Photograph #33118]

71

A false Palestinian identity card issued to Avi Livney, an American crew member of two illegal immigrant ships that transported Jews from Europe to Palestine. [Photograph #64289]

72

Annie Virshubski Foster visits her relatives in Eisiskes in August 1932. [Photograph #40519]

73

William Bernstein, an American crew member of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus 1947, poses with a female friend while on shore leave in Marseilles, shortly before the ship sailed for Palestine. [Photograph #95607]

74

Group portrait of a Jewish family standing in front of the their grains stall in the Drohobycz marketplace. [Photograph #66739]

75

More than a hundred thousand demonstrators gather in front of Madison Square Garden to take part in an anti-Nazi protest march through lower Manhattan. [Photograph #44153]

76

A crew member of the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) walks along the pier next to the ship

Pictured is Eli Kalm, chief steward of the ship. [Photograph #64280]

77

Three crew members pose on the pier in front of the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) in Baltimore harbor. [Photograph #64278]

78

Members of the American communist party participate in a march through the streets of lower Manhattan to protest against the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #44187]

79

Jewish emigres from Eisiskes gather for a banquet in New York. [Photograph #40666]

80

A crew member of the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) poses with a cigarette in his mouth on the deck of the ship. [Photograph #64273]

81

A crew member of the President Warfield (later The Exodus 1947) poses near the ship in Baltimore harbor. [Photograph #64266]

82

Saul Sorrin (with his back to the camera) director of UNRRA in the Munich area, and Samuel Haber (right) director of the JDC in Germany, converse with American Jews who are on an official visit to the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. [Photograph #13205]

83

Chaplain Mayer Abramowitz holds a newborn during a circumcision ceremony at the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [Photograph #96868]

84

Former crew of the Pan Crescent and Pan York, many of whom had also been on the crew of The Exodus, sail from Cyprus to Caesaria on board the Nesher. [Photograph #64288]

85

A DP couple celebrates their marriage in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [Photograph #48768]

86

Group portrait of members of Kibbutz Buchenwald. [Photograph #48765]

87

An American woman drives a tractor at the Kibbutz Nili hachshara (Zionist collective) in Pleikershof, Germany, where she came to get agricultural training. [Photograph #29941]

88

Jews march in Chicago to protest against the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #76508]

89

Morris and Chaya Gar Jones in front of their grocery store in New York. Chaya Gar, the donor's mother, came to America at the request of her cousin, Morris Jones, whom she married soon after her arrival in 1930. [Photograph #21644]

90

A Jewish family poses in front of their grains stall in the Drohobycz marketplace. [Photograph #66741]

91

Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg and Dr. and Mrs. Chaim Weizman meet in Boston at a conference of the United Palestine Appeal. [Photograph #59874]

92

Members of the American communist party participate in a march through the streets of lower Manhattan to protest against the Nazi persecution of German Jews. [Photograph #44160]

93

Group portrait of the North African delegation to the 1944 War Emergency Conference of the World Jewish Congress. [Photograph #05434]

94

Cantor Golan chants the marriage blessings during a wedding at the Berlin chaplain's center. [Photograph #82284]

95

Rabbi Herbert Friedman blesses a bride and groom under a marriage canopy during a wedding at the Berlin chaplain's center. [Photograph #82283]

96

Four crew members of the President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) pose on the deck of the ship in Baltimore harbor. [Photograph #64269]

97

Portrait of the Chasan family taken on occassion of the visit of one of the daughters, Miriam Lipert, from America. [Photograph #61954]

98

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise delivers an address at a mass meeting to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews that took place at Madison Square Garden. [Photograph #11301]

99

UNRRA camp director Harold Fishbein poses with a civilian in front of a map of Europe in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. [Photograph #58429]

100

Group portrait of Jewish DP children temporarily staying at a children's home in Bratislava. [Photograph #33119]