ORT, the Second World War and the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors
By: Sarah Kavanaugh.
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780853038061
Subjects: World ORT Union -- History; Occupational training for Jews -- Europe; Ex-concentration camp inmates -- Education; Holocaust survivors -- Education; Refugee camps -- Europe
Description: This book centres of the role played by ORT in the rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors inside the displaced persons camps after the Second World War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: ORT and the pre-war years; title: ORT's work during the Second World War and life in the ghettos; title: The liberation of the concentration camps and the arrival of the ORT missions, 1945-46; title: Life in the DP camps : ORT and the mature period of work, 1946-48; title: The end of the DP camps, Israel, and emigration.