Overview
- Caption
- DP youth and relief workers at the Prien am Chiemsee children's center.
Among those pictured is Sofia Myskiw to the left of the gentleman with the pipe. - Date
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1946 - 1947
- Locale
- Prien am Chiemsee, [Bavaria; Munich] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Chiemsee
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lilo, Jack and Micha Plaschkes
- Event History
- Prien am Chiemsee, the children's Displaced Persons camp in the Munich district, was established in 1946 (exact date unknown) and by October 19, 1946 housed 172 Jewish children. It reached its peak population on March 10, 1947, at which time there were 225 children. By December, 1948 the Jewish children were gone and it became a YMCA training center. The camp closed on June 6, 1949.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Lilo, Jack and Micha PlaschkesSource Record ID: Collections: 1993.23
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