Members of the PHH (Partizanim-Hayyalim-Halutzim) gather alongside their banner in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 48708

Overview

Caption: Members of the PHH (Partizanim-Hayyalim-Halutzim) gather alongside their banner in the Zeilsheim displaced persons' camp.
Photographer: E.M. Robinson
Date: 1945 - 1949
Locale: Zeilsheim, Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev
Event History: P.H.H. (Hebrew) stands for "Partizanim-Hayyalim-Halutzim" (Partisans-soldiers-pioneers) an organization of former Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland, most of whom had fought in the Red Army and then joined up with Mossad Aliya Bet emissaries in Poland in l944, as well as a number of Romanian Jews. They then proceeded to organize "illegal" emigration to Palestine, while at the same time setting up branches in the DP camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy. The organization accepted any Zionist regardless of political orientation. Crossing the border from Timisoara in the spring of l945, the PHH were the first Jews to link up with the Jewish Brigade on the Austrian-Yugoslav border.

[Source: Ephraim Dekel, "Briha: Flight to the Homeland", New York, Herzl Press, l973 , p.62-66]

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alice Lev

Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.416.1

Keyword: DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) FLAGS FLAGS (ZIONIST) ZEILSHEIM ZIONIST GROUPS (P.H.H) ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Zeilsheim -- Political/Zionist Activity