Photograph
Refugees Learning Hebrew at a Displaced Persons Camp
| Refugee children learning Hebrew at a displaced persons camp school; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen. When asked about this image, Sorrin revealed, "I can even see the date on this: August 18, 1946. It's a classroom in Hebrew. The children there--we had a strong urge to education and we had schools set up. We had a hard put to find teachers but we found them and teaching materials. I'm not sure which camp this is in." Interview by Jean Loeb Lettofsky and David Mandel, March 3, 1980. |
| Image ID: | 57499 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 18 1946 |
| Creator Name: | Sorrin, Saul |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin survivors of the Holocaust. Interviews and photographs, circa 1939-circa 1945, 1974-1975, 1980-1981 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3187.20.13 |
| Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
| Photo by Saul Sorrin. Caption at bottom reads: "Foto. J. Sutin." |
| Clothing and dress |
| Classes (Groups of students) |
| Schools |
| Children |
| Holocaust survivors |
| Indoor photography |
| Jews |
| Refugees |
| Camps |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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