Displaced Persons (DP) Camp (post-1945)

In the autumn of 1945, the British-Jewish aid organization Jewish Relief Unit (JRU) was looking for a convalescent home for boys and girls who had escaped the Nazi genocide. The choice fell on Lüneburg, as a small post-war Jewish community had already established itself there, which could be involved in the care of the children.

Administrative headquarters of the Jewish community of Lüneburg in Haus Treubund v.1848. Today: parking garage

The Kosher Restaurant and the club of the Jüdische DP community were housed in the former Café Rauno at Großen Bäckerstraße 13.

From 1946 to 1950, the Traunstein barracks was a temporary home for thousands of Jewish displaced persons.

The town of Goslar was obliged by the British military authorities to renovate the synagogue that had been destroyed during the pogrom night and to hand over the place of worship to the Jewish DP community. At the same time, the Jews were allocated apartments in the town and the property of the inn „Goldene Krone“ for use as collective accommodation and a community center.

In the houses Im Kreise 22 to 25 lived after 1945 many Jüdische DP.

After the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945 by Bite troops, in May 1945 there lived in the Celle Heidekaserne about 1000 Jewish so-called Displaced Person (DP).