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DP camps following World War II

Allied military forces were prepared to accept responsibility for the millions of civilians displaced as a result of World War II, with the goal of repatriating individuals as quickly as possible. Depending on sectors occupied in Austria and Germany, American, French, British, or Soviet forces tended to the immediate needs of the refugees. Jump to: navigation, search State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthems: The Internationale (1922-1944) / Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Last Premier Ivan Silayev Last...

In the last six months of 1945, over six million refugees were repatriated by the military forces and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). This, however, left over one million refugees who could not be repatriated to their original countries as a result of fear of persecution. In particular, Jewish individuals who had survived the Holocaust became known as Sh'erit ha-Pletah ("the surviving remnant") were unable or unwilling to return to places where they expected pogroms. Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was founded in 1943 to provide relief to areas liberated from Axis powers. ... Jump to: navigation, search The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... A pogrom (from Russian: погром, meaning wreaking of havoc) is a massive violent attack on a particular group; ethnic, religious or other, with simultaneous destruction of their environment (homes, businesses, religious centers). ...

A number of DP camps became more or less permanent homes for these individuals. Conditions were varied and sometimes harsh. Rations were restricted, curfews were imposed, and in some camps residents were forced to wear concentration camp uniforms.

Over time, displaced persons formed their own governance bodies. The first of these was at Bergen-Belsen when Josef Rosensaft was head of the first Jewish DP committee. Relations between the refugees and the military authorities was often strained, and as early as August, 1945, president Harry S. Truman directed Earl G. Harrison to survey conditions in the camp. Harrison reported (somewhat exaggeratedly) that ""As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them. They are still Concentration Camps in large numbers under our military guard, instead of the SS troops. One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy." Bergen-Belsen, sometimes referred to as just Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. ... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth Vice President (1945) and the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–53), succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...

Harrison's report caused an immediate reaction, including a number of changes to the way camps were run and an effort to pressure Britian to allow more Jews to immigrate to Palestine. Findings from this survey also indicated that Jewish refugees should be treated as a distinct nationality and housed in separate facilities.

By the end of 1945, the Jewish camps were effectively run by the DP committees, UNRRA and voluntary organizations, in particular the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews was formed with headquarters in Munich and held three congresses. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is a United States Jewish Jews, but also gentiles in more than 85 countries worldwide. ... Jump to: navigation, search Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German state of Bavaria. ...

By 1947, there were more than 250,000 Jewish refugees in DP camps across Europe. Other charitable organizations, including the Jewish Relief Unit had built a support infrastructure, including the means to track down missing individuals. Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The refugee situation was threatening to reach an impasse, and the refugees themselves were protesting their conditions and status. In particular, there were widespread protests against the British policy of blocking Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine. An underground movement, Berihah emerged to smuggle Jews illegally to Palestine, ultimately 250,000 Eastern European Jews, many DPs entered Palestine in this way. Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ... Berihah (literally flight in Hebrew) was the organized effort to help Jews escape post-Holocaust Europe for the British Mandate of Palestine. ...

Harry Truman directed preferential treatment to DPs for immigrating to the United States, and a series of DP Acts in 1948 and 1950 facilitated further immigration to the U.S, resulting in the immigration of an additional 68,000 Jews, bringing the total going to the US to just under 100,000. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the DP camps started emptying. In 1951 the DP committees were dissolved, and by 1952 all but one DP camp was closed. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

External links

• Jewish Virtual Library topic page
• United States Holocaust Museum: The Aftermath
• Yad Vashem lexical entry on displaced persons
• Simon Wiesenthal Center on the Aftermath