Title

Three Young Jewish DPs Depart Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Holding a Homemade Zionist Flag on the First Leg of Journey to Palestine

Authors

Object ID

2022.1.1

Object Name

Photograph, Reproduction

Files

Description

Black and white photograph of three young adults leaning out of a window with a flag hanging from a rod. Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Yetti Halpern Beigel (left) was born in Poland, the youngest of nine children. She had worked as a seamstress in the Bochnia Ghetto. She had been transferred to Bergen Belsen and after the liberation was sent to Buchenwald to the US Military Hospital to recuperate. Here she met Magda Weber (left) from Hungary. They later immigrated to Palestine. The unidentified boy in the center is Latvian.

Dimensions

10 x 8"

Keywords

DP Camps, Displaced Persons, Buchenwald

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Three Young Jewish DPs Depart Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Holding a Homemade Zionist Flag on the First Leg of Journey to Palestine" (2022). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2022.1.1.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1848