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Feldafing (Germania : campo DP)   Cerca

Nota d'ambito

Use this Index Term 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 established on May 1, 1945 by the American occupation forces in the houses and barracks of an elite National Socialist school in Feldafing, a town 35 km. southwest of Munich. This camp was an assembly center and care facility for both Jewish and non-Jewish refugees, most of whom were from eastern Europe. This camp had extensive facilities including schools, synagogues, sportsclubs, a theater, a cinema and a newspaper. It was officially closed in 1953. (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. 252

Termini più generici

• campi DP in Germania