Health care services for Holocaust survivors in post-war Austria, 1945-1953: a pattern of Jewsh solidarity

Discusses the provision of medical treatment to Displaced Persons waiting for a visa in DP camps in Austria.The American JDC realised that a comprehensive healthcare policy needed to be planned to address the medical demands of these DPs. Co-operation between the JDC, the Jewish Agency and Holocaust survivors was not easily created during the DP camps period. However, it played a central role in later enabling Israel to devote attention to needy Holocaust survivors, those handicapped and chronically ill who could only find refuge in the Jewish State.