Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of DP youth at the International Children's Center at Prien am Chiemsee.
- Date
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1948
- Locale
- Prien am Chiemsee, [Bavaria; Munich] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Chiemsee
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Samuel Gruber
- Event History
- Prien am Chiemsee, the children's Displaced Persons camp in the Munich district, was established in 1946 (exact date unknown) and by October 19, 1946 housed 172 Jewish children. It reached its peak population on March 10, 1947, at which time there were 225 children. By December, 1948 the Jewish children were gone and it became a YMCA training center. The camp closed on June 6, 1949.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Samuel GruberSource Record ID: Collections: 1991.143
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2017-12-28 00:00:00
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