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Men and women in a classroom. This photo is from a group of photos of the recreation and club room maintained in Amsterdam by the Refugee Committee.

Boys in the dormitory at the Ilaniah Children's Village. The Ilaniah Children's Village was an orphanage for central and eastern European orphans, whose parents were killed by Germans. It was run by JDC with funds from UJA. Children were gathered from German DP camps, hungry and diseased from lack of food and poor living conditions. At Apeldoorn, the children recovered and were prepared for immigration ...

A man shows a small animal to three young girls. Apeldoorn was home to a children's home for orphans of people killed by the Germans. The Dutch government graciously offered a venue for this JDC-supported home (with funds from UJA). The nearby townspeople in Apeldoorn welcomed the children with ceremony and gifts. Children recovered from disease and were restored to normalcy in this friendly and kind ...

Children in a classroom learning Hebrew and about the state of Israel at the Ilaniah Children's Village, an orphanage supported by JDC with UJA funds. It cared for children, ages 6-16, who were orphaned as a result of German atrocities. The children came from central and eastern Europe, many of them from Romania. At the home, the children recovered from malnutrition and general poor health due to poor ...

This is a portrait of a young Jewish female orphan, one of 500 children at Ilaniah, who is working to prepare for life in Israel. These childrens' parents were killed by the Germans; the families coming from Romania, and in smaller numbers from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany.The children were rescued by the Jewish Agency and AJDC and brought to Ilaniah, coming from very poor living conditions ...

Tables are set for a meal at Ilaniah. The Ilaniah Children's Village was a JDC-supported orphanage for chldren of central and eastern European Jewish war victims. The population in the area of Apeldoorn gave the children a very warm welcome when they arrived. Here, children put on weight after being deprived of food and recovered from bad treatment and disease to return to "normalcy" before their immigration ...