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Jewish DPs wait on a street in Paris to board a convoy of buses that will transport them to Marseilles, on the first leg of their journey to new homes in South America and Australia.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45084
Jewish DPs wait on a street in Paris to board a convoy of buses that will transport them to Marseilles, on the first leg of their journey to new homes in South America and Australia.

Jewish DPs wait on a street in Paris to board a convoy of buses that will transport them to Marseilles, on the first leg of their journey to new homes in South America and Australia.

Date
1947 July 24
Locale
Paris, [Seine] France
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Bricha/Emigration -- Leaving for North and South America/Australia/Great Britain -- From France
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

About This Photograph

Event History
On July 24, 1947, 250 Jewish DPs left the shelter of the American Joint Distribution Committee located on the rue Dumont d'Urville in Paris, in a convoy of ten buses. They were transported to the port of Marseilles, where they boarded ships bound for South America and Australia.

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Photo Source
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: 306-NT-649-C-3
 
Record last modified: 2005-10-12 00:00:00
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