The importance of creating new Jewish families was a response to the devastating loss of life. Many Jews married while still in the Displaced Persons Camps and whenever a Jewish child was born the survivors would offer the traditional toast: l’chaim, to life!
MHM guide John Chaskiel and fellow Buchenwald survivors arrive in their new homeland, Australia, c.1948.
Letter – Melbourne, 1955
Future Prime Minister Harold Holt, in his capacity as Minister for Immigration, sent a congratulatory letter to Basia Hyman (Heiman) when she became an Australian citizen.
Source: MHM, courtesy of Aviva Hyman
The importance of creating new Jewish families was a response to the devastating loss of life. Many Jews married while still in the Displaced Persons Camps and whenever a Jewish child was born the survivors would offer the traditional toast: l’chaim, to life!
Letter – Melbourne, 1955
Future Prime Minister Harold Holt, in his capacity as Minister for Immigration, sent a congratulatory letter to Basia Hyman (Heiman) when she became an Australian citizen.
Source: MHM, courtesy of Aviva Hyman