Timeline of Events
- 1946
- July 4
- October 1
- 1948
- June 25
- 1951
- January 12
- 1959
- August 28
- 1961
- December 15
- 1988
- November 5
- 1993
- April 22
- May 25
- 1994
- April 6
- November 8
- 1995
- July 11
- November 21
- 1998
- July 17
- September 2
- 2000
- October 23
- 2004
- June 23
- September 9
- 2006
- March 17
- July 30
- 2009
- March 4
- 2011
- July 9
Displaced Persons Act
Displaced persons (DPs) line the decks of the General Black as it leaves the port of Bremerhaven. Dubbed the "Ship to Freedom" by its passengers, it brought 813 European DPs from eleven nations to the United States under the provisions of the newly enacted Displaced Persons' Act. These were the first DPs allowed to enter the United States under the new quota. The ship's departure from Bremerhaven was marked by speeches by US military and civilian leaders and by an army band concert. —National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
June 25, 1948
The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act, under which approximately 400,000 displaced persons could immigrate to the United States over and above quota restrictions. US officials will issue around 80,000 of the DP visas to Jewish displaced persons.
Afur bonnet worn by Alice Robinson in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where she lived from 1945–1948. Alice (b. 1944), her sister, brother, and parents got passage on the first immigrant transport to depart under the Displaced Persons Act, the General Black, which arrived in the United States on October 30, 1948. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, gift of Alice Robinson Lev
Related Topics
- Holocaust Encyclopedia—1946–48: Key Dates
- Holocaust Encyclopedia—Displaced Persons
- Holocaust Encyclopedia—Aftermath of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Encyclopedia—United States Immigration and Refugee Law, 1921-1980
- Holocaust Encyclopedia—Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of the State of Israel
- Bibliography—Displaced Persons
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