Eschwege displaced persons camp

The displaced persons camp of Eschwege, a former German air force base in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone, became a displaced persons (DP) camp in January 1946.

The camp housed approximately 1,770 Jews at the time of its opening and its young population quickly developed a revitalized community, evidenced by the opening of a kindergarten with 50 children by April 1947. In contrast, the elementary school had only 30 students at that time. It also had a Talmud Torah, a cheder, and a yeshiva, as well as a "Bet Ya'akov" religious high school for girls.

Religious life was also celebrated in the camp's several synagogues and a mikvah. It had a sports club with 100 players, a movie theater, a 500-seat auditorium, and a theater group. The camp published the newspaper Undzer Hofenung (Our Hope).

David Ben-Gurion-Memorial at the site of the former UNRRA-Camp in Eschwege

At its peak, on October 19, 1946, the camp housed roughly 3,355 Jews. It closed on April 26, 1949.

Notes

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External links

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Eschwege

Displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe

Sites in the
American zone

Germany	Ainring Altenstadt Amberg Ansbach Aschaffenburg Augsburg Babenhausen Bad Aibling Bad Hersfeld Bad Mergentheim Bad Reichenhall Bad Wörishofen Bamberg Bayreuth Bensheim Berlin-Düppel Berlin-Mariendorf Cornberg Deggendorf Dinkelsbühl Eschwege Feldafing Föhrenwald Frankfurt-Zeilsheim Fürth Gabersee Heidenheim Heilbronn Hersbruck K. Indersdorf Lampertheim Landsberg Leipheim Lindenfels München Neu Freimann Mittenwald Passau Pocking Regensburg Schauenstein Stuttgart Trutzhain Wetzlar Wildflecken Ziegenhain

Austria	Ansfelden Bad Gastein Braunau am Inn Ebensee Hallein Innsbruck Linz-Bindermichel Ried im Innkreis Rothschild Hospital Saalfelden Salzburg Strobl

Sites in the
British zone

Germany	Aachen Bergen-Belsen Bocholt Bochum Braunschweig Bremen Detmold Düsseldorf Eckernförde Emden Emslandlager Flensburg Gladbeck Goslar Göttingen Greven Gronau Hamelin Hanover Hann. Münden Hildesheim Itzehoe Kiel Lingen Lippstadt Lübeck Meppen Minden Mönchengladbach Mülheim Paderborn Peine Pinneberg Remscheid Rendsburg Solingen

Austria	Admont Judenburg Kapfenberg Klagenfurt Leibnitz Lienz-Peggetz Trofaiach

Sites in Italy

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