Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Meier Schwarz served as Haganah הגנה Commander at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp, for the Maapilim interned by the British.

In 1947, Mordechai 'Motke' Eldar was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British.

In 1947, Avraham Goldband, his wife, Mania, son, Mendel, and his mother-in-law, Esther Tager, were interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British.

When Frances transported back to Germany, Isak Greenberg came to see her.

In 1947, Chanina Kam was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British.

In 1947, Benno Ginsburg was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British, where he remained, until the end of January, 1948, when he left for Emden, then Bergen-Belsen, where he was issued false papers, and finally, Marseille, and he boarded another ship for Palestine

In 1947, Rosa Rudashevsky Jurer and her daughter, Cilia, spent two months interned at the Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp, before they could leave.
They went briefly to Emden.

In 1947, Zev Siegel was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British, until he was transferred to Endem Marina Casserne, a former German submarine base.
The Mossad le Aliyah Bet smuggled him out of the camps, with help from his sister and Shula Alazoroff, and he made his way to Marseille, and then to Napoli.

In 1947, Irene Parkinson was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British.
Irene Parkinson cites: “For many people, it was horrible to be in a camp with barbed wire again,” she says. “I stayed in Germany for 18 months. The Red Cross came. They gave us blankets, cigarettes. The cigarettes were like money. You bought things with them — a skirt, some pants. We weren’t kids anymore. We didn’t have youth anymore.”

In 1947, Sara Wiener was interned at Pöppendorf Displaced Persons' Camp by the British.