Illustrations

1German civilians at Buchenwald, 1945 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

2German POWs watch an atrocity film about the German concentration camps, 1945 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton)

3British sign erected at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Madalae Fraser)

4David Ben-Gurion addressing the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, 27 January 1946 (Yad Vashem)

5Children's demonstration for a Jewish homeland in Rosenheim DP camp (Yad Vashem)

6Landsberg and Föhrenwald football teams, 1945–49 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jack Sutin)

7Sonia Boczkowska performing the poem ‘Shoes from Majdanek’, Belsen DP camp (Yad Vashem)

8Scene from Partisans, Belsen DP camp (Yad Vashem)

9Yiddish Youth Theatre, Belsen DP camp (Yad Vashem)

10Sally Katz in Die Mutter, Belsen DP camp (Yad Vashem)

11Effigy of Adolf Hitler, Landsberg DP camp, 1946–48 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rita Friedman Hattem)

12Purim celebration, Landsberg DP camp (Beit Lohamei Hageta'ot)

13Students studying Talmud at a yeshiva in Zeilsheim DP camp, 1945 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alice Lev)

14Zvi Silberman holds his newborn son in a DP camp in Austria, 1945–49 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yocheved Fryd Flumenker)

15Clothing produced at an ORT-UNRRA school, probably at Landsberg DP camp, 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Samuel B. Zisman)

16Kibbutz Nocham, Bergen-Belsen DP camp, 1947 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alex Knobler)

17Jewish New Year greeting card depicting Exodus 1947 (Yad Vashem)

18Protest in Belsen against treatment of Exodus 1947 passengers, 1947 (akg-images)

19‘British Floating Dachau’ protest sticker, 1947

20Detention Camp no. 55, Cyprus, c. 1948 (IDEA–ALM)

21Wedding portrait in a Cyprus internment camp, 1947 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benny Hershkowitz)

The documents pictured in Chapter 5 are courtesy of the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen.