Living in Landsberg, dreaming of Deganiah: Jewish displaced youths and Zionism after the Holocaust

Five months after liberation a group of young Holocaust survivors moved to the estate of Julius Streicher and transformed his estate into an agricultural training farm. By the middle of 1946 thousands of young kibbutz members inhabited 40 such training farms in the DP camps of post-war Germany. It is clear that the DPs played an important role in the creation of the State of Israel