The Earl G. Harrison papers consist of the journal Harrison kept during his summer 1945 tour of displaced persons camps, a typescript of his article "The Last Hundred Thousand" about the camps he visited and people he met, excerpts from addresses about displaced persons he delivered in the fall and winter of 1945, a broadcast transcript of a radio program from July 1946 featuring Harrison's support ...

Abraham Judah Klausner (1915-2007) was an American Rabbi and United States Army captain and chaplain. He became a “father figure” for the more than 30,000 emaciated survivors liberated at the Dachau Concentration Camp, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Munich. He arrived with his unit in May 1945, three weeks after the camp had been liberated on April 29, 1945. Rabbi Klausner worked tirelessly to find ...

The Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons was formed in the United States in 1946, by leaders of the American Jewish Committee and the American Committee for Judaism. This broad based group of noted Americans were gathered for the goal of influencing Congress so that it would pass legislation relaxing immigration quotas and permitting the entrance of displaced persons from Europe to enter the United ...

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