Family History Today: New Life After the Holocaust

After WWII, the Allies established Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the Allied-occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy to temporarily house the millions of Europeans who were displaced by the war. As more than 700,000 Jews, including many concentration camp survivors, flooded into these camps, they were quick to get married and, within less than a year, the birth rate of the Jewish population in Europe’s DP camps was the highest of any group in the world at the time. In this lecture, Serafima Velkovich, Head of the Family Roots Research Section at the Yad Vashem Archives, will discuss the history of this unique phenomenon and explain how you can search for information on the former DP babies in your family.
This event took place on September 12, 2023.

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Expert presenter with emotional enrichment. I wonder what her personal connection was. My parents met before in a small town and my dad was a Polish-Soviet officer passing thru Sosnowiec but they stayed a very short time in a DP camp near Munich before emigrating to France. Life in Palestine seemed unappealling.