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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  2. DP camp in Austria

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 539, Part 4. Release date, 09/19/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Displaced Persons Camp" Upper Austria. Fifteen hundred refugees of Jewish descent live in this UNRRA sponsored camp at Admont, dreaming of the day when they can go to Palestine. They raise most of the food they eat. Men walk under sign (in Hebrew) with hoes and shovels on shoulders. LS countryside. Beautiful mountains. Young men and women in shorts hoeing. Two women outside washing clothes in tub. Four men walking together. CUs, children in pasture with women playing by ...

  3. Cyprus internment camps

    Contains administrative records created by Jewish internees in the internment camps in Cyprus, including correspondence with the Cyprus camp administration, legal files of the camp court, minutes and proceedings of administrative bodies within the camp, certificates issued by the Jewish Agency for Emigration to Palestine, legal files, reports, statistical lists of refugees, and more.