A Study of Twenty-Two Cases of Displaced Persons Served by Family Service, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, 1950-1955
Abstract
Background of the Study. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the Allied armies in Europe were faced with a tremendous social, political and economic upheaval in the former Axis countries. One of these problems that seemed almost insoluble was the question of what to do with the more than 8,000,000 displaced persons in Austria, Germany and Italy. These people included slave laborers who had been brought to Germany from conquered and occupied countries, refugees who had left their homes fleeing from the on rolling red tide and prisoners of war. A great number of displaced persons desired to return to their countries of origin. The Allied armies repatriated about 7,000,000 people during the year following the liberation. Food, shelter, clothing, medical care and transportation were provided. There remained, how- ever, approximately 1,000,000 refugees who could not or would not return home because of political, religious or racial persecution.
Subject Area
Social structure|European Studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
de Bar, Charlotte, "A Study of Twenty-Two Cases of Displaced Persons Served by Family Service, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, 1950-1955" (1955). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097014.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097014
