Displaced persons

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Scope note(s)

  • Persons who have fled or been driven from their communities to localities within their home country. For persons forced to leave their home country, use "refugees".
  • Personne qui a fui ou qui a été conduite hors de sa communauté vers une localité située à l'intérieur de son pays natal. Pour une personne forcée à quitter son pays, utiliser "réfugié".
  • Persona que ha huído o ha sido conducida fuera de su comunidad a una localidad situada al interior de su país natal. Para referirse a una persona forzada a abandonar su país, utilizar "refugiado".

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    Hierarchical terms

    Displaced persons

    Displaced persons

      Equivalent terms

      Displaced persons

      • UF IDP
      • UF Internally displaced persons
      • UF Desplazados

      Associated terms

      4 Archival description results for Displaced persons

      WAR REFUGEES COMMITTEE
      GB 0074 ACC/2695 · Collection · 1914

      Minute book of the War Refugees Committee, a charity aiding First World War refugees.

      War Refugees Committee , charity aiding First World War refugees
      GB 1556 WL 1223 · 1946-1947

      Copies of correspondence between the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, 1946-1947, on the provision of relief parcels for non-Jewish Hamburg residents.

      Jewish Relief Unit
      GB 1556 WL 849 · Collection · 1946-1947

      Reports of the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) by Jewish relief workers on the conditions of Jews and other displaced persons at the end of the Second World War, including report on the conditions of Greek Jewry during and after the war, with a statistical breakdown of the losses of the Jewish population in the various regions of Greece, Apr 1946; report by H O Joseph on the condition of Italian Jewry, Apr 1946; report by H O Joseph, 'visit to Austria, 6 Dec 1946- 18 Dec 1946' on the activities of the JCRA personnel, to ascertain whether any could be deployed elsewhere and to investigate the situation of displaced persons in camps in the American Zone, Dec 1946; report describing the condition of Jewish displaced persons in Austria, Jan 1947; report by H O Joseph describing the condition of Jews and displaced persons in Austria and correspondence to interested parties enclosing the above reports, 27 Jul 1946-9 Aug 1946.

      Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad
      GB 1556 WL 1242 · Collection · 1948-1949

      Papers of the Bad Kissingen field office of the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) in the American zone of occupation of Germany, 1948-1949, comprising information sheets, administrative and provisional orders and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

      International Refugee Organisation