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76. Salzburg Displaced Persons Camps
UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) administered the permanent camps: Bad ... Gastein, New Palestine, and Braunau. The transient camps were led by UNRRA and partially by the ... and Saalfelden. Salzburg’s transient camps commonly sheltered larger groups of DPs. Most of the camp ... The camps devised cultural, educational, and vocational programs to assist the DPs in their return to
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77. Concentration Camps, 1939–42
Expansion of the Camp System The years 1939–1942 saw a marked expansion in the ... concentration camp system. In 1938, SS authorities had begun to exploit the labor of concentration camp ... the camps, thus providing the SS with a readily available labor force ... . SS authorities established new camps in the vicinity of factories (for example, the brickworks at
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78. Cremona Displaced Persons Camp
persons (DP) camps in northern Italy. It housed between 1,000 and 1,200 refugees in 1945-47. The camp ... schoolhouse, Cremona DP camp suffered a severe clothing and food shortage in the summer of 1946, partially due ... (ritual slaughter) of kosher beef in Cremona. The camp also hosted the first children’s dormitory in the ... Italian UNRRA camps. The Joint hailed Cremona's workshops as the "best organized in the whole of Italy" in
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79. Babenhausen Displaced Persons Camp
the camp were reported in a December 13, 1946, issue of the Eschwege DP ... . The US Army used the camp immediately after the war to hold prisoners of war. Thus, the camp did not ... Affairs to protest the camp's conditions. Nevertheless, the camp remained open, and quickly reached a ... -Gurion in late 1946. The residents of Babenhausen DP camp founded a Talmud Torah (religious elementary
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80. Jewish Uprisings in Camps
succeeded in initiating resistance and uprisings in some Nazi camps. The ... camp armory—and set fire to the camp. About 200 managed to escape. The Germans recaptured and killed ... guards and police auxiliaries and set the camp on fire. About 300 prisoners escaped, breaking through the ... barbed wire and risking their lives in the minefield surrounding the camp. Over 100 were recaptured and
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81. Lindenfels Displaced Persons Camp
The camp was comprised of four separate hotels. Camp ... the approximately 415 Jews who populated the camp in October 1946, over 300 attended schools ... attended a party for 200 orphaned children at the camp. The moving gathering brought together the American ... On November 15, 1948, the camp closed.
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82. Turin Displaced Persons Camp
(pioneer training collectives). The DP camp in Turin proper increased from 950 DPs at the end of 1946, to ... Trades) opened several workshops in the Turin-area camps, training DPs in various industries, including
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83. Deggendorf Displaced Persons Camp
DP camp in the Bamberg district of the American-occupied zone. The camp housed approximately 2 ... supplemented by the camp's sizable library of 1,700 volumes. Deggendorf also organized a theater group ... a synagogue, a mikve (Jewish ritual bath), and a kosher kitchen. The camp administration ... money bore the stamp, "Jewish Committee-D.P. Camp 7 Deggendorf." ORT operated a vocational training
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84. Lampertheim Displaced Persons Camp
refugees from the overcrowded Zeilsheim DP camp. It was situated between Mannheim and Darmstadt in the ... Frankfurt district of the American zone of occupation. At its peak in 1946–47, the camp housed over 1 ... . The Lampertheim DP camp boasted a library of approximately 500 Yiddish, German, and Hebrew books, all ... a synagogue, and a kosher kitchen. In December 1947, religious residents of the camp protested
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85. Rivoli Displaced Persons Camp
November 1946, the Joint (The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) reported, "Rivoli camp was ... filled in suddenly and had trouble with water." The camp population, which was overwhelmingly male (944 ... ). Still, Rivoli and several youth camps in the surrounding area organized a vibrant youth culture ... The camp's Hebrew and Yiddish newspaper, Davar
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86. Tricase Displaced Persons Camp
camp at the southern tip of Italy, Tricase was founded in 1944 by the Allied Commission. This small ... camp quickly outgrew its quarters in requisitioned holiday villas. "During the most recent visit made ... UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), which assumed management of the camp in ... . Tricase housed many members of the Betar kibbutz and the camp's Zionist orientation was evident in the
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87. Ebensee Displaced Persons Camp
DP camp in the American occupied zone of Austria, Ebensee was ... Ebensee concentration camp in early May 1945, and the area was subsequently converted into a DP camp ... The camp’s UNRRA leadership (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) was made up ... inmates The Jewish inhabitants of the camp often complained of the administration’s discrimination against
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88. Mariendorf Displaced Persons Camp
(DP) camps in Berlin, Mariendorf was located on Eisenacher Straße, part of the American zone in the ... Berlin district. The urban camp opened to serve large numbers of refugees arriving from Eastern Europe ... created in the camp. The Jewish population of the camp ... at the same time as those from the Düppel Center DP camp, due to
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89. Heidenheim Displaced Persons Camp
was a mid-size, predominantly Jewish displaced persons (DP) camp in the ... American zone of occupation in the Stuttgart district. The US Army carved the camp out of part of a German ... village by requisitioning private housing. Though the camp ... July 25, 1949, when 2,328 Jewish DPs still populated the camp. Nevertheless, Heidenheim closed shortly
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90. Eschwege Displaced Persons Camp
life was also celebrated in the camp's several synagogues and a mikvah (Jewish ritual bath). Eschwege ... camp published the newspaper Undzer Hofenung (Our Hope). At its peak, on October 19 ... 1946, Eschwege housed roughly 3,355 Jews. The camp closed on April 26, 1949
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91. Leipheim Displaced Persons Camp
was a displaced persons (DP) camp in the Munich district, in the ... American-occupied zone. The camp opened in December 1945 on the site of a former airfield ... The camp kept a Talmud Torah (religious elementary school), a ... ). Camp residents circulated the newspaper A
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92. Gabersee Displaced Persons Camp
(DP) camp in the Munich district in Germany. It was located in the American zone of occupation near ... . The DP camp opened on March 29, 1946, under the auspices of UNRRA
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93. Fürth Displaced Persons Camp
camp was located in the American-occupied zone of the Bamberg District in Fürth and organized from ... . The camp maintained a Talmud Torah (religious elementary school) and a kosher kitchen, supervised by ... mikvah (Jewish ritual bath). At its peak in December 1945, the camp housed 850 Jews but by July 1949
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94. Wetzlar Displaced Persons Camp
(DP) camp in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone. It opened in September 1946 in a ... former military camp. The first DPs to inhabit Wetzlar were from Cham and Berlin ... . The Jewish population of the camp decreased from 4,200 in October 1946, to 3,700 two years later
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95. Bensheim Displaced Persons Camp
DPs. The camp supported a thriving religious educational system that included a cheder ... October 1946, the Jewish population totaled 1,196. Bensheim DP camp closed on April 6, 1949
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96. Ziegenhain Displaced Persons Camp
(DP) camp in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone. During the war, Ziegenhain had been ... immigration to their hoped for destination. The camp closed in
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97. THE CONCENTRATION CAMP IN BOLZANO : PICTURES AND DOCUMENTS OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP IN BOLZANO (1944-1945) = LE CAMP DE CONCENTRATION DE BOLZANO : IMAGES ET DOCUMENTS DU CAMP DE CONCENTRATION NAZI DE BOLZANO. [Internet resource]
http://www.gemeinde.bozen.it/UploadDocs/2193_The_Concentration_Camp_in_Bz_Le_Camp_de_concentration_de_Bz.pdf ... in September 1944, biographical information concerning former prisoners of the camp is found ... .gemeinde.bozen.it/UploadDocs/2193_The_Concentration_Camp_in_Bz_Le_Camp_de_concentration_de_Bz.pdf (Last Accessed: 14 March 2014)
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98. Liste des habitants du Camp de Kematen voulant aller chercher ses familles et les etablir au Camp de Kematen.
List of inhabitants of the Camp of Kematen wishing to seek their families and establish them in the ... List of Displaced Persons at Camp Kematen who want to locate their families, and bring them to the ... camp. Includes name, date of birth, and information about the people for whom they are searching.
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99. DP camps
Notes taken from NCJF documentation: The film provides a rare look inside DP camps, the crowded ... living conditions, the lack of activity, the new generation born in the camps, and the attempt at ... camp. Many young children and babies, most likely born in the camp, children playing, people walking
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100. Camp de Grini (Norvège)
Camp Grini (Norway) ... arrest, the grounds for his arrest, the dates he was held at Grini, and his occupation.