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A group of Jewish DPs pose on one another's shoulders in the Landberg displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07670
A group of Jewish DPs pose on one another's shoulders in the Landberg displaced persons camp. Among those pictured are Solly Ganor (center), David Granot (on Solly's shoulders) and David Levine (top, left).

A group of Jewish DPs pose on one another's shoulders in the Landberg displaced persons camp.

Among those pictured are Solly Ganor (center), David Granot (on Solly's shoulders) and David Levine (top, left).

Date
November 1945 - January 1946
Locale
Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale
Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Landsberg -- Daily Life/Families/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

About This Photograph

Biography
Solly Ganor was a young Lithuanian Jew who befriended Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas and who may have influenced him to issue transit visas to Jewish refugees. Ganor himself never escaped Lithuania. He was captured by the Germans after Lithuania was occupied in June-July 1944 and spent many years in Nazi concentration camps. In an ironic twist of fate, he was finally liberated southeast of Dachau by Japanese-American troops with the 522nd field artillery Battalion.

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Photo Source
Eric Saul
Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-28 00:00:00
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