Displaced persons walk down the main street of their camp, probably a former concentration camp. A watch tower can be seen in the background and barbed wire on the sides.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 54645

Photographer: David Marcus
Date: 1947
Locale: Germany
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Unidentified -- Views
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Karen Melkonian

Biography: Maurice Levitt is the great uncle of the donor. He was the brother of the donor’s maternal grandmother, Hattie Levin who died in 1992 and the surrogate father of her mother, Miriam. The Levitt family immigrated to the United States at the turn of the century from Lithuania. Maurice Levitt served in the army during WWII and later worked for the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, primarily between 1946 and 1947. The Frankfurt Jewish GI Council was established by Jewish servicemen in June 1946 as a semi-autonomous relief organization. It served to ease the plight of Jewish displaced persons by providing supplies, visitations, religious-cultural activities and assistance in locating and contacting relatives. Levitt took many photographs of the activities of the GI Council and the Jewish displaced persons to highlight conditions in the camps and aid in fundraising. Levitt also wrote for the Council’s publication "The Liberated". After his return to the United States, Maurice Levitt worked as a French teacher in New York until his death in 1978.
Keyword: BARRACKS
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
ENTRANCES
FRANKFURT JEWISH GI COUNCIL
STREET SCENES
WATCH TOWERS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Karen Melkonian
: Record last modified: 2011-06-15 00:00:00
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