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created separate camps for
them. Only about 50,000 Jews
lived in these centers, but
that changed in 1946, when
approximately 200,000 Polish
Jews who had survived by
fl eeing to the Soviet Union
returned to their hometowns,
seeking loved ones left behind.

Grossman added that the
experiences of these Jews, who
were oft en put to hard labor in
Central Asia, are frequently left
out of Holocaust studies.

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and Adolf Hitler.

In 1948, Congress passed the
Displaced Persons Act, which
stipulated that any person who
entered a displaced persons
camp aft er 1945 was ineligible
for a visa. Th is, Nasaw said,
excluded Jewish survivors
while making it easier for Nazis
and collaborators to enter the
United States. Truman knew
the act was discriminatory, but
his party didn’t have the votes
to change it.

Nasaw found that of the
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Nasaw said Polish Jews
who returned to Poland
found that their property had
been confi scated and violent
anti-Semitism had worsened
due to Nazi propaganda and
wartime resentment.

“Th is is the tragic irony: Th e
only secure place for the Polish
Jews who had survived the
war and come back to Poland
was in Germany, in displaced
persons camps, sometimes
behind barbed wire, guarded
by the American military,” he
said. In the U.S., legislators
resisted letting Jewish refugees
into the country. Nasaw said
immigration opponents, who
knew most of the Jews who
survived had lived in the Soviet
Union, claimed they were
Bolshevik communists who
represented a threat to Western
civilization, echoing anti-Se-
mitic rhetoric from the Vatican
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM 250,000 Jews in displaced
persons camps, only 55,000
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Nasaw how the stories of Jewish
refugees could be used to help
displaced persons today. He
said building an immigra-
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stereotypes, is key.

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displaced persons who have
no place else to go, and can’t
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