Millions of people had been uprooted from their homes by World War II and the Holocaust, which created an unprecedented refugee crisis in the immediate postwar years. The term Displaced Person (DP) was created to describe the situation of these refugees, and a network of DP camps was established to house them temporarily while preparations were made for their emigration and resettlement.
Displaced Persons
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"About the Seder"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"As an Emigrant in Shanghai"
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the Holocaust"Behind the Fence": Inked Print by Miriam Sommerburg
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the Holocaust"Sponsors Needed: New DPs Will Enter 'U'"
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the Holocaust"The DP Story: The Final Report of the United States Displaced Persons Commission"
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"The St. Louis Is Close to Cuba"
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"The US Army Talmud"
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustA Verdict from "Our Camp-tribunal"
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustAlbert Barnett: “Negro Workers Leave the South; Displaced by DPs in the North”
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAnonymous Letter Thrown from a Deportation Train
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustArthur Werner, "He really knows"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBooklet for Major Alexander Rosenbaum from Kibbutz Buchenwald
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustChildren's Questionnaire of Josef Munzer
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustCorrespondence between Franz Blumenstein and the American Friends Service Committee
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDavid Boder Interview with Helen Tichauer