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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.

A group of children at play on the beach near a boat, with a castle behind them. Possibly in Zandvoort, where a summer seashore annex to the Ilaniah Children's Village near Apeldoorn has been opened.

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

A group of orphans eating lunch together in the Ilaniah Children's Village; supported by JDC, Ilaniah housed 500 Jewish orphans while they prepared for immigration to Israel.

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 group of children walk in the woods at the Ilaniah Children's Village. The Ilaniah Children's Village was an orphanage for children of central and eastern Europeans killed by the Germans. While there, children (age 6-16) recovered from malnutrition, disease and generally returned to normal after terrible stays in German DP camps. the orphanage was supported by JDC with funds from UJA.

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.

A group of children sitting in a vegetable garden with their caretaker, probably in one of the JDC supported children's homes.

A young refugee carrying a crop of tomatoes in the JDC-supported Hachsharah Training Farm for Adolescents at Gouda. JDC supported a number of agricultural training programs for refugees, to help prepare them for immigration to Palestine and elsewhere.

Crowd of men and women look to the sky at the opening of the community center at Werkdorp, Wieringemeer, Holland.