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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 48709
Yitzhak Gruenbaum delivers a speech at a Zionist meeting during his visit to the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

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 Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Zeilsheim -- Political/Zionist Activity
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev

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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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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Alice Lev
Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.416.1
 
Record last modified: 2015-06-08 00:00:00
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