- Caption
- Group portrait of displaced persons in Kibbutz Mekor Baruch, a Poal Mizrachi fishing hachshara in Bacoli, Italy.
Pictured from left to right are (first row): Meir Weiss, unknown, Ben-Zion Gasner, and unknown; (second row) Mangel, Eliezer Majerovic, Shmuelevitz, Shmuelevitz and Moshe Fruchter; (third row): Moshe Bergerm Mordechai Feld, David Weiss, Zvi Rengel, unknown, and Yona Kalosh.
- Date
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Circa 1946 - 1947
- Locale
- Bacoli, [Naples] Italy
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Tal
- Event History
- Kibbutz Mekor Baruch was established in Bacoli Italy, near Naples, in March 1946 at the instigation of Rabbi Baruch Epstein, a Palestinian rabbi serving in the British army. It consisted of 90 members, almost all affiliated with Torah VeAvodah religious Zionism. Because of its location next to the sea, it was decided that the members would be taught fishing. Among the Palestinian Jews who assisted in the hachshara was Shlomo Teitelbaum (later Tal), father of the donor.