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Portrait of UNRRA relief worker, Greta Fischer, at the International Children's Center at Prien am Chiemsee.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 10712
Portrait of UNRRA relief worker, Greta Fischer, at the International Children's Center at Prien am Chiemsee.

Portrait of UNRRA relief worker, Greta Fischer, at the International Children's Center at Prien am Chiemsee.

Date
1946 November 15
Locale
Prien am Chiemsee, [Bavaria; Munich] Germany
Variant Locale
Chiemsee
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- Germany -- Prien am Chiemsee
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lilo, Jack and Micha Plaschkes

About This Photograph

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.
Biography
Greta Fischer grew up in Czechoslovakia, but fled to England at the beginning of the war in 1939. Her parents, who remained in Czechoslovakia, perished in Theresienstadt. Greta spent the war years working in British nurseries. Immediately after the liberation she joined UNRRA and was assigned to Relief Team 182 that established the Kloster Indersdorf DP children's center. Greta left in 1948 to accompany a group of hard-to-place older children traveling from Marseille, France to Toronto, Canada. She settled in Montreal, where she was as a social worker. She died in Israel. Her niece, Lilo Plaschkes, gave Fischer’s collection of materials from Kloster Indersdorf to the Museum in 1992.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Lilo, Jack and Micha Plaschkes
Source Record ID: Collections: 1993.23
 
Record last modified: 2000-04-12 00:00:00
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