Photo montage of the Youth Aliyah school in Berlin.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 46195

Date: 1940 May 16
Locale: Berlin, [Berlin] Germany
Variant Locale: Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Schools/School Holiday Celebrations -- Youth Aliyah School
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jizchak Schwersenz

Event History: The Youth Aliyah school in Berlin was founded in 1936 by the Jewish community to accommodate the increasing numbers of young people who wanted to join the Hehalutz Zionist youth movement in order to train for immigration to Palestine. Though Jewish youth groups were banned by the Nazis in 1936, the Youth Aliyah school was tolerated for several more years because it prepared Jews for emigration. In May 1939 Jizchak Schwersenz became its director. When the Nazis prohibited Jewish emigration in October 1941, they closed the Youth Aliyah school.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005142.
Keyword: ART
DOCUMENTS
PHOTOMONTAGE
SCHOOLS/TEACHERS/CLASSES
YOUTH ALIYAH
ZIONIST GROUPS (HEHALUTZ)
ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jizchak Schwersenz
: Record last modified: 2002-05-14 00:00:00
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