Last Displaced Persons Camp Closes

The Foehrenwald displaced persons camp, located southwest of Munich (Germany) in the American zone of occupation after the war, is the final DP camp to close in 1957. 

Colour slide of the exterior view of a three-storey building. Three men stand outside the building.
The Foehrenwald DP persons camp. After inspecting the camp in 1953, David Rosenstein briefed US Congress on the plight of remaining Jewish DPs in Europe, 9 years after the war. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Elinor Rosenstein Gabriel)

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