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Also use when interviewees discuss experiences in this camp for the period between liberation and its establishment as a DP camp. (en-US)

Definizione

A displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees that was established by the American occupation forces in a former Wehrmacht barracks in Landsberg, a town outside of Munich in October 1945. This was the largest Jewish DP camp in Bavaria and it had a Jewish community center, hospital, religious school, kibbutz, theater, radio station, and newspaper. It was closed in 1949. (en-US)

Fonte

Königseder, Angelika, and Juliane Wetzel. Lebensmut im Wartesaal: Die Jüdischen DPs (Displaced Persons) im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1994. pp. 256

Termini più generici

• campi DP in Germania