The Return to Life in the Displaced Persons Camps, 1945-1956

Professor William Haber at a Heder (traditional Jewish elementary school)

Rabbi Issac Hertzberg and Rabbi Eisen during Sukkot in the Wetzlar DP camp, Germany

A Talmud-Torah (religious elementary school) class at Föhrenwald. On the left side of the blackboard, the words “Talmud Torah Föhrenwald” are written in Hebrew.

Survivors during a Passover Seder at the Traunstein DP camp, Germany, 1946

Rosh Hashanah prayers at the Feldafing DP camp, Germany, 1947

Jews wearing prayer shawls and Tefillin (phylacteries) during prayer services at the Leipheim DP camp

Ritual circumcision of Josef Lichtensztein, the first baby born at the Heidenheim DP camp, Germany, 1946

Parents with their children during the festival of Shavuot (Pentecost) in a DP camp, 1947

Carrying the Torah scroll into the "Beit Yeshurun" Beit Midrash (house of religious study) in the Feldafing DP camp, Germany, summer 1947

Children in costume for the Purim holiday, Landsberg DP camp, Germany

Chief US Army Rabbi in Europe Goldman lighting the third candle of Hanukkah with two girls at the Fuerstenfeldbruck DP camp, Germany, 1945

Dedication of a Torah scroll in the Yeshurun Synagogue at the Poking DP camp, Germany

Children learning at a Heder (traditional Jewish elementary school) in the Beit Bialik DP camp, Salzburg, Austria, postwar