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DP Stories Elly Gotz Joe Judy Cohen L.S. M.K. Miriam Moshe Mosze Norman Frajman Robert Frimtzis S.G. Sol Berger Uri Urmacher William Tannenzapf Wilma Zelda Fuksman DP Camps Map Overview Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cuba Czechoslovakia France Germany Greece Hungary Italy The Netherlands Poland Romania Shanghai Switzerland United Kingdom Documents Austria ORT Report Belgium ORT Report Bulgaria ORT Report Czechoslovakia ORT Report France ORT report United Kingdom ORT Report Germany ORT Report Greece ORT Report Hungary ORT Report Italy ORT Report Poland ORT Report Switzerland ORT Report The Netherlands ORT Report Romania ORT report Shanghai ORT Report DP terms glossary Bibliography Photos Germany Great Britain Cuba Austria Belgium Bulgaria France Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Poland Shanghai Switzerland ORT’s Work During the War The outbreak of the Second World War did not stop the work of ORT and other relief organizations and their social and educational programmes relating to Jews in Europe. Despite the atrocities of the war, the work continued. It was aimed firstly at Jewish refugees, who sought asylum in countries not yet taken over by the war. Secondly, it was conducted in the ghettos of Eastern Europe-closed parts of towns and cities, mainly in Eastern Europe, in which Germans concentrated the Jewish population, before either killing them in the vicinity of the ghetto or deporting them to death, concentration of forced-labour camps. [Read More] Survivors in Post-War Europe On 9 May 1945, the unconditional surrender of Germany signified the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Jewish community in Europe was all but destroyed. One of the greatest challenges for the international community was the fate of 9 million forced labourers and 80,000 concentration camp inmates who at the end of the war were abandoned in Germany. The Allied forces had started preparing for this problem during the war and in November 1944 it was decided on creation of assembly centres for displaced persons, the so called DP camps, which for many thousands of Holocaust survivors were to be the first step to building a new life. [Read More] ORT and Rehabilitation The end of the Second World War presented ORT and other relief organizations with an immense set of challenges. Those few who survived- whether waiting for immigration in the DP camps or returning to the former countries, had to be provided with immediate help. As many as 80,000 Jews passed through ORT training projects immediately after the war- ranging from young Jews who had been deprived of any education during the war and older artisans who needed skills to build their lives in the new countries. [Read More] English World ORT...