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Collection Guide: Displaced Person Camps

Group portraits (YIVO RG 294.5, Folder 17).

Government Publications

American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service (1946). The problem of the displaced persons; report of the Survey Committee on Displaced Persons of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service. New York.

Citizens Committee on Displaced persons (1947). The displaced persons digest. New York.

United Nations Department of Public Information (1948). What the United Nations is doing for refugees and displaced persons. Lake Success, N. Y.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (1946). Compendium of statistics on displaced persons. Bureau of Services, Repatriation and Welfare Division, Reports and Records Branch.

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (1950). Displaced persons : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Amendments to the Displaced Persons Act of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, first and second sessions, on bills to amend the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

United States Department of State (1947). The displaced-persons problem : a collection of recent official statements. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

United States Displaced Persons Commission (1952). The DP story: the final report of the United States Displaced Persons Commission. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office.

Politics

Dinnerstein, L. (1978) Anti-semitism in the Eightieth Congress : the displaced person act of 1948. In Capitol studies, vol. 6, Fall, 1978. p. 11-26.

Schröder, J. Politische und kulturelle Geschichte der jüdischen Displaced Persons anhand des von den USA verwalteten Lagers Föhrenwald in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone. Hausarbeit (Mag.): Universität München.

Silberberg, F (1982). American attitudes toward the displaced persons in the era after WWII. University of Illinois.

Education and Culture

Fetthauer, S. (2012). Musik und Theater im DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen : zum Kulturleben der jüdischen Displaced Persons 1945-1950. Neumünster : Von Bockel.

Goldman, B.I. (1980). Cultural activities among Jews in the displaced persons camps in : Germany, Austria and Italy after World War II. New York.

Goldman, S. (1978). Education among Jewish displaced persons: the Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950. Dropsie University.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (1990). Jewish displaced persons periodicals from the collections of the YIVO Institute. Bethesda, Md. : University Publications of America.

General

Boder, D.P. (1957) Topical autobiographies of displaced people : recorded verbatim in displaced persons camps, with a psychological and anthropological analysis. Los Angeles, Calif. : David P. Boder.

Jacobmeyer, W. (1985). Vom Zwangsarbeiter zum heimatlosen Auslaender; die Displaced Persons in Westdeutschland, 1945-1951. Goettingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Königseder, A. (2001). Waiting for hope : Jewish displaced persons in post World War II Germany. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press.

Mittelhammer, A. (2018). Zwischen Leben - Politische Machtstrukturen und Konflikte in den Lagern der jüdischen Displaced Persons in Italien und Österreich 1944-1951. Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač.

Örtel, C. (1999). Juden auf der Flucht durch Austria : juedische Displaced Persons in der US-Besatzungszone Oesterreichs. Wien : W. Eichbauer.

Vida, G. (1967). From doom to dawn : a Jewish chaplain's story of displaced persons. New York : J. David.

Warhaftig, Z. (1946). Uprooted : Jewish refugees and displaced persons after liberation. New York : Institute of Jewish affairs of the American Jewish congress and World Jewish congress.

Wyman, M. (1988). Europe's displaced persons, 1945-1951. Philadelphia : Balch Institute Press.