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Escape from Europe - the "Bericha" - A Learning Environment

The bericha [Hebrew] refers to the organized attempts, during 1944-1948, to collect Jewish survivors in Europe and bring them to pre-state Israel. This site features an animated exhibition, interactive map and educational discussion material on the subject.

Introduction
Zionist Youth Movements
The Jewish Brigade
The Children
  • 1.From: Leftwich Joseph (editor and translator), An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Literature, Mouton, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1974, p. 282. Itzik Manger (1901-1969), prominent Yiddish writer and poet. Born in Cernauti, Bocovine, Ukraine. Published his first book of poetry in 1929. In 1939, he fled the Nazis to London and then New York. Manger published many works characterized by a rich and variegated dialog with Jewish culture. Several of his works were dramatized. Manger immigrated to Israel in 1966 and died in 1969.
  • 2.Of these, historians Yochanan Cohen estimates some 150,000 moved through organized Bericha routes, and Engel David puts the figures at around 120,000.
  • 1.Rachel Ben-Chaim was born in Szaranc, Hungary in 1926. In the spring of 1944 she was deported to the ghetto in Satoraljaujhely, and from there to Auschwitz. She was imprisoned in the Stutthof camp, survived a death march in January 1945 and was liberated by the Russians. After returning home in March 1945, she left Hungary and reached Italy by August with the help of the Bericha movement. She immigrated to Palestine in January 1946.