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One page of a booklet produced by a member of the hachshara (Zionist collective) Kibbutz Buchenwald, featuring a group portrait of members of the collective taken beneath the Kibbutz Buchenwald banner.

Photograph | Photograph Number: N04966
One page of a booklet produced by a member of the hachshara (Zionist collective) Kibbutz Buchenwald, featuring a group portrait of members of the collective taken beneath the Kibbutz Buchenwald banner. The group in the photograph photograph departed for Palestine on August 27, 1945.

One page of a booklet produced by a member of the hachshara (Zionist collective) Kibbutz Buchenwald, featuring a group portrait of members of the collective taken beneath the Kibbutz Buchenwald banner.

The group in the photograph photograph departed for Palestine on August 27, 1945.

Date
August 1945
Locale
Geringshof, [Fulda] Germany
Variant Locale
Kibbutz Buchenwald
Israel
Photo Designation
EXHIBITIONS -- Special Exhibitions and Publications -- Displaced Persons -- Historical Photos
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Wallace Rosenbaum

About This Photograph

Event History
Kibbutz Buchenwald was founded in June 1945 by survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp with the support of American army chaplain, Rabbi Herschel Schacter. However, the idea of creating a post-war socialist Zionist collective was hatched by a small group ofr men including Arthur Poznansky, Yechezkel Tydor and Eliyahu Gruenbaum and three Gottlieb brothers while they were still in concentration camp. Schacter helped requisition a farm in Eggendorf complete with animals and equipment, and the first sixteen members took possession on June 3. Kibbutz Buchenwald as founded on principles of tolerance and welcomed members from across the political spectrum. In July the Kibbutz moved to Geringshof, the site of a previous Jewish agricultural school founded in 1923 that managed to stay open until 1941 before its Jewish students were deported. At the war's end, the American military government recovered the farm and permitted it to be reopened for Jewish youth once more. Many of the group immigrated to Palestine aboard the Tel Chai refugee ship in 1946. At first absorbed by Kibbutz Afikim, the members of Kibbutz Buchenwald later split off to found a new kibbutz, Netzer Sereni. The last members of Kibbutz Buchenwald emigrated in 1949.

[Source: Baumel, Judith Tydor. "Kibbutz Buchenwald and Kibbutz Hafetz Hayyim: Two Experiments in the Rehabilitation of Jewish Survivors in Germany", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, V9, N2, Fall 1995.]

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Max Reid

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Wallace Rosenbaum
Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.15.1
 
Record last modified: 2004-09-09 00:00:00
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