Jewish DPs who have been evacuated from Berlin to Frankfurt as a result of the Soviet blockade, wait at the Rhine Main Airfield for transport to displaced persons camps.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 82712

Overview

Caption: Jewish DPs who have been evacuated from Berlin to Frankfurt as a result of the Soviet blockade, wait at the Rhine Main Airfield for transport to displaced persons camps.

The original caption reads, "Jewish displaced persons arrive by plane at the Rhine Main Airfield, Frankfurt, Germany, from the blockaded city of Berlin, on operation "Vittles". 150 came in the first group, and 180 are expected to arrive on July 24, 1948. Most of these DPs have been granted visas by the new State of Israel, and will go to DP camps in the U.S. zone to await shipment to Palestine, while others will leave for Canada, France and the U.S.. Here DPs wait for trucks to arrive to carry them to trains."
Date: 1948 July 23
Locale: Frankfurt-am-Main, [Hesse-Nassau; Hesse] Germany
Variant Locale: Frankfort
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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.]

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-304855 (Album 5295)

Keyword: BERLIN BLOCKADE DPS (JEWISH) EVACUATIONS/TRANSPORTS TRAINS TRUCKS
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Berlin -- 1948 Evacuation