Otto Nothmann was able to identify himself to Allied soldiers in the chaos of postwar Berlin with his International Refugee Organization ID card. DP status entitled him to an increased level of food and lodging in a Jewish DP camp.
Otto Nothmann´s International Refugee Organization ID card © Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, AR 10492
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Alaa M. and her husband came to Germany in 2015. They have built a new life in Berlin, their twins were born in exile. Alaa is a self-confident woman in Berlin who has to fight many prejudices. She does not accept that people judge her by her appearance.
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