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Yitzhak Gruenbaum delivers a speech at a Zionist meeting during his visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

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Yitzhak Gruenbaum delivers a speech at a Zionist meeting during his visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

Overview

Caption: Yitzhak Gruenbaum delivers a speech at a Zionist meeting during his visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.
Photographer: E.M. Robinson
Date: 1945 - 1948
Locale: Zeilsheim, Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev

Rights & Restrictions

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alice Lev

Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.416.1

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) GRUENBAUM, YITZHAK JEWISH AGENCY (FOR PALESTINE) MEETINGS OFFICIAL VISITS SPEECHES YISHUV LEADERS ZEILSHEIM ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Zeilsheim -- Political/Zionist Activity

Administrative Notes

Biography: Yitzhak Gruenbaum (1879-1970), Zionist leader and spokesman for Polish Jewry in the interwar period. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933, where he served as a member of the Jewish Agency Executive. During World War II, in addition to his position as head of the Labor Department, he chaired the Jewish Agency's Joint Rescue Committee (1943-44). He was sharply criticized for his slowness in accepting the validity of early reports of the Final Solution and for his reluctance to pursue large scale rescue efforts because they stood little chance of success.

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