European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Governing committee at Lamper theim meets to talk things director Center was chosen by fellow Dps elected the Camp factory turns out clothing for Young Urra furnishes clothing is distributed among All Camps in the american an old survivor of wartime concentration Camp Enjo life in the warm afternoon helps a Young pick pans Hope they live o by Jonathan Levin in 157 Camps in the zone jewish Dps await a Chance to South the the thought of spending another Winter amid the ruins of Germany weekend photographs nations Abe drawn from the Camp food is furnished by and supplemented by the american joint distribution the German morning is Crisp in i the mountains of upper Hesse As through the Gates of barbed wire enclosed Schwarz Enborn displaced persons Camp come two a woman and a Little each with a uncomfortable Rucksack on his their voices ring Clear in the quiet Forest air As they walk up the Road Between the the Road they take leads to Many it May Lead to another or to leaking ships dashing toward the Palestine and prob ably another barbed wire guarded by mommies on the Mediterranean Island of tucked away in the is hard to it int hard to and almost half the jewish Dps sent there have walked through its Gate and Down the without so much As an official and from every other jewish do Camp they few families each week multiplied by the 157 Camps in the Ina flow that increases steadily with the length of the Spring Days and is spurred by the dread of spending another Winter in Only a very Small percentage of the jewish Dps in the american zone resort to illegal Palestine most Are still waiting in the none sees the Overall problem of the half million displaced persons in but rather each considers the immediate question of How much longer he will have to wait before a or a summons to an emigration Assembly area arrives for him or his the greatest single Factor in the daily life of each is the wait the Tempora riness of his sex heightened by the fact that each lives with the Hope of being called translated into a Soldier they have lived two Yean in a port of embarkation awaiting shipping orders they Hope and believe will come along with the the is the hard decision each jewish do must one Day make while the vast majority want to go to and would leave immediately were the Way open for Legal almost As Many have registered for admission to and Settle ment in other this decision for Palestine immigration to open or to step Over and join slowly Ovig winding into the a few other squarely across zionist the Choice is a difficult and the indecision was Well demonstrated by two consecutive programs last month in the theater of the Lampert Heim outside first night a packed Hall heard a revisionist most extreme of All zionist groups Call for mass emigration to the crowd the next a similar gathering bade Farewell to two Brothers leaving for the Many had difficulty in reconciling the first nights meeting with the they could not justify this apparent contradiction in who make the decision to turn their backs on the Palestine dream and seek Refuge in some other country find Many factors each must weigh for Lam per theims dentist wanted to go to but the holy land abounds in and in the Field is
