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3 unusual facts about Displaced persons camp


Displaced persons camp

In recent times, camps have existed in many parts of the world for groups of displaced persons including for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan, and for Palestinians in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

These came in addition to 115,000 Polish army veterans who had joined the Polish Resettlement Corps and 12,000 former members of the Waffen SS Ukrainian Halychyna Division.

Thorington Street

During the Penrose's tennancy, the house was used as an evacuation hostel for the Friends Relief Service.


Eschwege displaced persons camp

The displaced persons camp of Eschwege, a former German air force base in the Frankfurt district of the American-occupied zone, became a displaced persons (DP) camp in January 1946.


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Sam Gejdenson

Born in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany, Gejdenson was the child of a Belarussian father and Lithuanian mother.

Zenon Snylyk

After the war, the Snylyk family fled to Mittenwald, West Germany where they lived in a displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949.