Central Committee of the Liberated Jews

The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American Zone revealed the high degree of self-organization among the Sh’erit ha-Pletah between 1945 and 1950. The newly created committee set up its office in Munich, first in the Deutsches Museum, then in Siebertstrasse. Its aim was to draw public attention to the distress plight of Jewish survivors in DP camps in order to put pressure on Britain to allow the immigration of DPs into Palestine. Through its different departments, the Central Committee played a decisive role in the fields of education, culture, religious affairs, historical documentation, and training, as well as in the provision of supplies and their distribution, in politics, the search for familiy members and emigration, legal affairs, and restitution.

The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews was housed in several buildings: in Siebertstrasse 3 and 4, in Möhlstrasse 12a and in Ismaningerstrasse 57.