| Jewish people were a small percentage of all the displaced person at these camps (page 69).
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These camps were overcrowded, filthy, and inhumane, so many Jews found themselves in the same place, torture (page 71).
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Most Jewish survivors choose to emigrate to Palestine (page 75).
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| In 1946, 250,000 Jews were still trying to find a place to live because only a limited number were allowed into the US and Palestine (page 75).
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Jews were not fed properly in DP camps. They were given a certain amount (page 78).
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Some thought the DP camps were fine because at least they didn’t have to worry about death by gas chamber, starving, etc (page 80)
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| Many hoped to get to the US zone of Germany and travel to America from there, so they could start their second life (page 82).
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“In a DP camp, as opposed to a concentration camp, all residents were free to come and go as they pleased.” (page 82)
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The camps usually had small four room structures with cots and a shared kitchen area (page 82).
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| The camps of Landsberg, Germany was overcrowded, filthy, and underfed its people. It did however have excellent medical facilities and schools (page 86).
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Camps were overcrowed. Example- A former German military barracks built for 2,500 people was filled with 4,500 DPs (page 85).
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Very little education in DP camps, due to few books, supplies, classrooms, and teachers (page 83).
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| Fences surrounded the DP camps. This was a painful reminder to the Jews of concentration camps (page 87).
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Guards patrolled the entrance to the DP camps, but they did this to keep unauthorized Germans out and not to keep Jews in (page 88).
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For some getting to a DP meant secrecy. For example Polish people were not allowed to leave Poland after the war, so to get to the American zone in Germany was hard (page 96).
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| Immediately after liberation most Jews were converted straight to DP camps (page 90).
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A lot of times when going from country to country Jews were only aloud to carry a knapsack containing no personal items and could not speak their native language (page 96).
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There were some happy times during the years of DP camps. Some groups celebrated birthdays (page 97).
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| Some of the camps were for Jewish people only. Others were for all displaced persons (page99).
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Spread of disease was rampant and especially among new arrivals to the camps (page 99).
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Even though there was little education was high priority. You had to attend school up the age of nineteen (in the camps) (page 99).
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| At camps there were often training classes for hairdressers, nurses, electricians, tailors, and other tradespeople (page 100).
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Camps provided clothing and blanket to the DPs (page 100).
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Some camps were disguised to protect the Jewish people (page 106).
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| Some Jews had to bribe others to get a visa to America (page 107).
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Jews demanded the ability to immigrate to the Holy Land.
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“…Jews were being held in unsanitary, barbed-wire camps, wearing hideous concentration-camp garb…”
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| Even though Jews were in little danger of being gassed there was little change in the way they were treated.
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What made Jews different from other DPs was that they had no homeland anymore (page 24).
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As well as shortages of food, there was also a medicine shortage (page 25).
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| Many DP camps were old concentration camps (page 25).
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Most Jewish DPs had little hope that any family member of theirs was still alive (page 28).
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Jews spent as little as a few months in a DP camp or sometime more than a few years (page 66).
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| DP camps had the highest birthrate of any Jewish community. Jews were trying to rebuild their population (page 154).
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There were about 20 wedding a day some of the largest DP camps (page 154).
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Many Jews checked survivor boards everyday to see if they had family alive (page 155).
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| One of the last DP camps to close was Föhrenwald in Germany, which closed in 1957 (page 157).
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