Rilkestrasse: Brichah underground organization

The Jewish underground organization Brichah (Heb. escape) was founded at the end of 1944 in the triangle between Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine, liberated by the Red Army. Jewish partisans and ghetto fighters attempted to make their way to Palestine. With the help of officers in the underground organization Haganah (Heb. defence) in Palestine and soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, a fighting unit of the British Army, these activities developed into the largest refugee aid movement in the 20th century. Brichah succeeded in smuggling well over 200,000 Eastern European Jews into DP camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy—from there they carried on to Palestine.