Children helping men to pack furniture at Apeldoorn for loading aboard the ship that will take them to Israel. The JDC sent along with the children as a gift all the furnishings of the Apeldoorn home. The children's home houses five hundred Jewish orphans from German DP Camps and Romania, where they lived until they were able to immigrate to Israel. The children are provided with basic necessities, ...

A young man picking tomatoes at a JDC-supported agricultural training program (hachsharah) to prepare Jewish refugees for immigration to Israel.

A Jewish refugee orphan packing potatoes at a JDC-supported agricultural training program (hachsharah) to prepare for immigration to Israel.

A group of five young Jewish refugees and their escort on the S.S. City of Alma on their way to the United States.

A young Jewish refugee picking tobacco in a JDC-supported agricultural training program (hachsharah) to prepare for immigration to Israel.

A young girl from the summer seaside annex to the JDC-supported Ilaniah Children's Village laughing at the beach near a boat.

The commander of the S.S. Negbah explaining the telegraph machine to a young Jewish refugee en route to Israel.

A small group from the Ilaniah Children's Village in a tulip field; supported by JDC, Ilaniah housed 500 Jewish orphans while they prepared for immigration to Israel.

A young Jewish refugee at work in the melon patch in a JDC-supported agricultural training program (hachsharah) to prepare for immigration to Israel.

At the Amsterdam airport, Esther Haskin, a JDC staff member in Holland, accompanies a Jewish refugee leaving for the United States.

Jewish orphans from Romania arrive by train in Holland, where they lived in a special children's village funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee before going to Palestine.