People waving goodbye to the orphans on board the SS Maiden Creek, leaving Holland for the United States. All emigration and transportation arrangements were organized by the JDC office in Amsterdam.

A young refugee picking melons in a JDC-supported hachsharah, or training farm for adolescents, in Gouda. JDC funded a number of agricultural training centers in the Netherlands to help prepare refugees for immigration to Palestine and elsewhere.

Girls living in the Ilaniah children's home near Apeldoorn washing dishes and sharing chores. The children's home houses five hundred Jewish orphans from German DP Camps and Romania, where they hope to stay until they can immigrate to Israel. The children are provided with basic necessities, education, and special ORT vocational training.

A few of the 426 Jewish refugee children from the Ilaniyah Children's Village getting settled in their cabins aboard ship en route to Israel.

Six Jewish orphans with their escorts boarding the S.S. Maiden Creek, the ship that will take them to America.

Two young Jewish refugees in the tobacco greenhouse of the JDC-supported agricultural training program (hachsharah) to prepare for immigration to Israel.

Departure of the S.S. Negbah for Israel, with the 426 Jewish orphans who spent the year in the Ilaniah Children's Village.

A group portrait of children and their caretakers at a JDC-supported facility (possibly Ilaniah near Apeldoorn).

A young girl in a vegetable garden at the Ilaniah children's home, supported by JDC; the children received education and vocational training.

A young Jewish refugee in the Amsterdam airport leaving for the United States says goodbye to Esther Haskin, the JDC staff person who escorted her.

The chief officer of the S.S. Negbah receives a Torah presented to the ship by the Amsterdam Jewish Community.

Jewish children at a communal Passover seder at the JDC-supported Ilaniah Children's Village, which housed nearly 500 Jewish orphans from German Displaced Persons camps and Romania.

Children at work in the garden of Ilianiah, the JDC-supported facility near Apeldoorn, which housed 500 Jewish orphans from German Displaced Persons camps and Romania.

Staff of the JDC-supported Ilaniah Children's Village making sandwiches for the children's lunch packets on the eve of their departure to Israel.

A group of Jewish orphans and their escorts wave goodbye from the S.S. Maiden Creek, a ship bound from Holland to the United States.