The term "displaced person" (DP) describes people who after the Second World War, and because of it, resided outside of their homeland and could not return or settle in another land without help.
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“Unafraid”: En Route to Palestine
Tereska Torres’s Film Diary from 1947, from the series Zeitzeugnisse aus dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin, in German
Publication
2004
In a Foreign Country
Publications from Displaced Persons Camps
Exhibition
3 Sep to 15 Dec 2015
Our Contemporary History Collection
We are systematically expanding our holdings on the history of displaced persons in occupied Germany, among other topics.
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In a Foreign Country
Companion booklet to the exhibition about literature from DP camps, downloadable PDF
Online Publication
2015
No Longer in the Country
Unclaimed membership cards for the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main, 1949
Objects from Our Core Exhibition
A Descendant of Jewish DPs as “Advent Hero”
A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative
Gloss
Dec 2020
Shot by German Police in 1946
Aubrey Pomerance, Head of Archives, on the tragic fate of Shmuel Dancyger Z. L.
Essay
2016