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Canvas covered trucks packed with Jewish DPs [who are being evacuated to Frankfurt am Main during the Berlin Blockade] are parked in a row [probably at a Berlin airport].

Photograph | Photograph Number: 58452
Canvas covered trucks packed with Jewish DPs [who are being evacuated to Frankfurt am Main during the Berlin Blockade] are parked in a row [probably at a Berlin airport].

Canvas covered trucks packed with Jewish DPs [who are being evacuated to Frankfurt am Main during the Berlin Blockade] are parked in a row [probably at a Berlin airport].

Date
Circa July 1948
Variant Locale
Berlin-Buckow
Berlin-Mariendorf
Berlin-Ochstumsand
Berlin-Ploetzensee
Berlin-Reinickendorf
Berlin-Tempelhof
Berlin-Wannsee
Berlin-Schlachtensee
Berlin-Duppel
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- 1948 Evacuation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mayer & Rachel Abramowitz
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Event History
Between July 23 and August 1, 1948, 5,446 Jewish DPs from displaced persons camps in Berlin were evacuated by airplane to Frankfurt am Main as a result of the Soviet blockade of the capital. [Source: Bauer, Yehuda."Out of the Ashes." Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1989, p.275 n.25.]
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005462.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Mayer & Rachel Abramowitz
Second Provenance: Harold Fishbein
 
Record last modified: 2004-10-14 00:00:00
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