Jewish DPs who are being evacuated to Frankfurt am Main during the Berlin Blockade, walk off the back of a truck and onto the steps of an airplane.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 58454

Overview

Caption: Jewish DPs who are being evacuated to Frankfurt am Main during the Berlin Blockade, walk off the back of a truck and onto the steps of an airplane.
Date: July 1948
Locale: Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale: Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mayer & Rachel Abramowitz
Event History: Between July 23 and August 1, 1948, 5,446 Jewish DPs from displaced persons camps in Berlin were evacuated by airplane to Frankfurt am Main as a result of the Soviet blockade of the capital. [Source: Bauer, Yehuda."Out of the Ashes." Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1989, p.275 n.25.]

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005462.

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Mayer & Rachel Abramowitz

Second Provenance: Harold Fishbein

Keyword: AIRPLANES BERLIN BLOCKADE BOARDING CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH CLOSE-UPS DEPARTURES DPS (JEWISH) EVACUATIONS/TRANSPORTS LUGGAGE TRUCKS WOMEN
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- 1948 Evacuation