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Following the horrors of the Holocaust that transpired during the second world war, many Jewish refugees and displaced peoples collaborated with the Zionist movement. They packed up the little that they had left, if anything at all, and migrated to Palestine. Many of these people had just survived a great deal of physical and mental […]

When understanding the ramifications of the Second World War, it must be understood that the surrender of Japan did not mark the end of difficulties across the globe. For instance, the war brought about a level of human displacement throughout … Continue reading →

“Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country,” – Israel Zangwill, a prominent British Zionist, in the New Liberal Review in 1901. This argument for a Jewish state appealed to many of the 250,000 Jewish DPs living in camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy after World War II [1]. They…

Many years after World War Two, displaced persons were able to begin a return trip home, or rather where home used to be. But rather than finding a nostalgic community of their old friends, family, and neighbors, these DP’s were Continue reading The Pain of a Disappearing Home→

It is no secret that millions of people on the European continent were displaced from their countries and homes after World War II. The years of fighting and destruction left millions in a state of limbo while being corralled into … Continue reading →

Tension in Germany, between the Jews and the Nazi party, predated the mass extermination we now know as the holocaust. Nazi officials had been using propaganda newspapers such as the Angriff, which was headed by Joseph Goebbels, to promote the relocation of Jews out of Germany since the 1920’s (Segev, 19). These newspapers played to […]

 On June 22, 1945 President Harry Truman sent Earl Harrison, the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, to Europe to evaluate the condition of displaced persons in Europe. Harrison assessed military and government effectiveness in providing aid to … Continue reading →

The Second World War left much of the world in ruins. In Europe there were millions of people without homes or hope. These displaced persons were forced out of their homes by destruction, persecution and the search for a better life. The massive numbers of refugees were both a large problem and solution for the … Continue reading “A Laborious Relationship”

Europe and the world in general faced many problems in the postwar time period.  The greatest question that faced world leaders was that of labor.  Over 60 Million people were killed in the war, not only men of fighting age but also women, children and older men.  The war not only devastated the physical cities … Continue reading “The Question of Labor”

Mass displacement and immigration after World War II generated expanded racial tensions in Europe. In Britain, increased immigration led to the creation of a political group called the White Defense League. The group stressed British identity based on race, and emphasized strong anti-immigration rhetoric. The White Defense League brought to light the anti-immigration sentiment in Britain based on…