This account is from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series from The Times that documents lesser-known stories from the war. Beginning in 1945, the Allied forces established displaced persons camps across Europe, where hundreds of thousands of concentration camp survivors and Jewish refugees reacclimated to life after the Holocaust. Some were former concentration camps with poor conditions, while others were requisitioned European villages, like Lampertheim, Germany, where Yankel Oltuski, who is now 102 and goes by Jack, lived between 1946 and 1949.
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Picture released on February 1945 of the wrecked German town of Cleves after Royal Air Force bombings, during the Second World War.
