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
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Mirjam Korber
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustDress Made by Margret Hantman in Deggendorf DP Camp
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of Displaced Persons Boarding a Ship in Bremerhaven, Germany
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of Displaced Persons Registering with the International Refugee Organization
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of DPs Studying in Camp Grohn
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGeorge Kadish, "The Persecuted"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustHerbert Friedman, Purim Play Photograph
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustInternational Refugee Organization Questionnaire of Bela Berkes
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Arthur Werner to Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Dawid Najmark to his Family
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Harry S. Truman, September 18, 1945
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Julius Lewy to "the liberators"
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Kopel Nachbar to Alfred Weiss and Mollie Levin
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Larissa Prychodko to John Panchuk
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Szyja Faktor to His Relatives
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from William Dickman to Charlotte Salmon, American Friends Service Committee
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetters from Harry Lerner to His Parents
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPhotograph of Performance of "This Is How It Began"
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustPhotograph of Refugees Arriving at Fort Ontario
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustReport on an Incident at Neu Freimann DP Camp
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRivke Horvits-Pinkusevits, "Mama, You Live On"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSong from Deggendorf DP camp
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustThe Displaced Persons Act of 1948
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustVerdict in the Case of Aleksander Eintracht
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWidowhood Release of Golda Leitman Weiss
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustZvi Gurvits, "The Book of Life in the Zeilsheim Camp"