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Images: The Jewish Agency for Palestine cared for child
refugees in Tehran in 1942, with assistance from local and international
Jewish aid groups. Some 870 of these “Tehran Children” continued on to
Palestine in 1943. USHMM, courtesy of David Laor;
Jewish refugees sell gelato in the Ferramonti camp in southern Italy in
April 1942. USHMM, courtesy of Jabotinsky Institute; During World
War II, German Jewish refugee Ruth Weyl (left) worked as a housekeeper at
the Kisumu Hotel. USHMM, gift of Ruth Weyl; Left to
right are Sophie Goldschmidt-Stern, Ruth Adametz-Cohen, Margot Hirschi, and
Liselotte Liesl Scherzer. They were able to escape Nazi Germany for Great
Britain. USHMM, gift of Alisa Tennenbaum; From left, Simon
Bergman, and Masza, Norbert, and Abraham Swislocki take a boat ride in
Japan in 1941. USHMM, courtesy of Norbert Swislocki;
These women were among the 982 refugees allowed to come to Fort Ontario, in
Oswego, New York, in 1944. Ruth Gruber Archives; Holocaust
survivor Rita Rubinstein (Rifka Lifschitz) in Feldafing,
Germany, circa 1946–1949, (courtesy of Rita Lifschitz Rubinstein)
and as an adult, today. US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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