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  • Three Holocaust survivors newly arrived in New York, after being liberated in Wiesbaden, Germany, and traveling via the SS Marine Flasher out of Bremenhaven. Mother and daughter Else and Rita Springut, and Moses Fish, 1946.
    Three Holocaust survivors newly arrived in New York, after being liberated in Wiesbaden, Germany, and traveling via the SS Marine Flasher out of Bremenhaven. Mother and daughter Else and Rita Springut, and Moses Fish, 1946.
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    The Rise of the ‘Survivors’

    And the increasingly forgotten story of the Shoah’s displaced persons

    byJenna Weissman Joselit
  • An effigy of Adolf Hitler hangs in the Landsberg DP camp, between 1946 and 1948
    An effigy of Adolf Hitler hangs in the Landsberg DP camp, between 1946 and 1948
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    The Year We Hung Hitler

    A 1946 Purim celebration in the Landsberg DP camp

    byYehuda Fogel
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    RotFront
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    Summer Heat, Guitar Gods, and RotFront

    Rokhl’s Golden City: How a generation of Russian-speaking Jews who ended up in Germany after the fall of the Soviet Union became key figures in the klezmer continuity

    byRokhl Kafrissen
  • Class portrait of school children at Schauenstein DP camp, circa 1946.
    Class portrait of school children at Schauenstein DP camp, circa 1946.
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    Children Born in Displaced Persons Camps Gather in Tel Aviv

    ‘Mourning soon gave way to thousands of marriages, and new families emerged from the ashes’

    byMenachem Z. Rosensaft
  • People sit on the steps of Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015.
    People sit on the steps of Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015.
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    Black America Is Under Terror and I Want To Be Part of the Solution

    ‘Being Jewish in America, for so many privileged Jews—it is from a perch’

    byMerissa Nathan Gerson
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