Photograph
Refugees Demonstrate for Israeli Statehood
![Refugees demonstrate for Israeli statehood at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany.
Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen.
When asked about this image, Sorrin revealed, "At the time that the United Nations was considering the partition, when the debates were going on, or at times when the United States was getting ready to make some statement, or whatever, at certain political moments, the Jews of the camps were politically quite active and would engage in demonstrations for Israel. That's what it really was all about. And this is one of these demonstrations. I can see here in Yiddish, "Mir fodern a Yidishe medine [blaykh?], "We demand a Jewish state now." And signs and placards were made. It's possible that there was a visitor, a commission of some sort may have visited one of the camps. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry or United Nations Commission of Inquiry, whatever. But demonstrations and political activity were very, very much a part of--when I say political, I mean in a Zionist sense--were a part of life in the Jewish camps."
Interview by Jean Loeb Lettofsky and David Mandel, March 3, 1980.](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700099990638/9999009857-l.jpg "Refugees Demonstrate for Israeli Statehood")
| Refugees demonstrate for Israeli statehood at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen. When asked about this image, Sorrin revealed, "At the time that the United Nations was considering the partition, when the debates were going on, or at times when the United States was getting ready to make some statement, or whatever, at certain political moments, the Jews of the camps were politically quite active and would engage in demonstrations for Israel. That's what it really was all about. And this is one of these demonstrations. I can see here in Yiddish, "Mir fodern a Yidishe medine [blaykh?], "We demand a Jewish state now." And signs and placards were made. It's possible that there was a visitor, a commission of some sort may have visited one of the camps. The Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry or United Nations Commission of Inquiry, whatever. But demonstrations and political activity were very, very much a part of--when I say political, I mean in a Zionist sense--were a part of life in the Jewish camps." Interview by Jean Loeb Lettofsky and David Mandel, March 3, 1980. |
| Image ID: | 57876 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1947 |
| Creator Name: | Sorrin, Saul |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin survivors of the Holocaust. Interviews and photographs, circa 1939-circa 1945, 1974-1975, 1980-1981 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3187.20.25 |
| Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
| Housing |
| Crowds |
| Holocaust survivors |
| Jews |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Refugees |
| Women |
| Demonstrations |
| Flags |
| Banners |
| Camps |
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