Displaced Persons Camp
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Title
Displaced Persons Camp
Subject
Holocaust Survivors
Creator
Andre Kessler
Curatescape Story Item Type Metadata
Subtitle
Waiting to Board Ship for the United States
Lede
"For the first time in my life I was behind barbed wire."
Story
"We left Vienna and went to Bremerhaven, Germany, where the ships sailed from. They only sailed once a week and we wound up in what was called a Displaced Persons Camp. It was an old German Army camp. I don’t know if they didn’t want us to associate with the Germans or the Germans to associate with us, but for the first time in my life I was behind barbed wire. We were in the camp with other people waiting to be able to board ships to come to the United States."
Factoid
1951
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