Figure 1.--These are Jewish orphans being cared for as part of the Nergen-Belsen DP Camp. It was apparently named Camp Hamoshire, prsumabably the DP camp was maintained by the British. The press camption read, "After Belsen--They Live Again: A happy crowd of Jewish children at the Hampshire camp. The notice on the tree reads'Blessed Be the Ones Who Enter Here," written in Hebrew." The photograph we believe was taken in 1946. Put your cirsor on the image for a better view of the boys.

After years of supression and attrocity, Jewish family and cultural life flourished at the DP Camp. Numerous weddings took place daily. Several thousand children were born at the camp. The DPs founded a primary school for the surviving children (July 1945). Many of the children were from the special camps set up in the NAZI Bergen-Belsen Camp. At most NAZI concentration camps, the children were some of the first to be murdered. Bergen-Belsen was an excepton because the NAZIs were intending to exchange the Jews. After liberation, The primary school as part of the DP camp at its peak had 340 children (1948). A high school was also established (December 1945). Many of the teachers were soldiers from the Jewish Brigade (the Palestinian Jewish unit trained by the British). In addition a Kindergarten, orphanage, and a yeshiva (Jewish religious school) were organized. The orpanage was apparently named Hampsire Camp. The Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) set up vocational training schools.

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