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TitleNAS - Rutgers Language and Orientation Program for Hungarian Scholars, First Week - January 20-24, 1957

Date Created1957

DescriptionAfter the Soviets suppressed the Revolution in Hungary in 1956, approximately 200,000 Hungarians fled the country. Many Hungarian refugees came to New Jersey, some of whom were housed at Camp Kilmer,...

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TitleMinutes of the meeting of the Displaced Persons Committee, June 1, 1950

Date Created1950

DescriptionThe Council for Human Services in New Jersey (formerly known as the New Jersey Welfare Council), was an umbrella group for social welfare agencies and social workers in the state. After the Second...

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TitleFact-finding Sub-committee, Committee on Displaced Persons, New Jersey Welfare Council

Date Created1949

DescriptionThe Council for Human Services in New Jersey, formerly known as the New Jersey Welfare Council, was an umbrella group for social welfare agencies and social workers in the state. After the Second...

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TitleAnnouncement of the National Academy of Science's establishment of an office at Camp Kilmer

AuthorAtwood, Jr., Wallace W; Trytten, M.H.

Date Created1957

DescriptionAfter the Soviets suppressed the Revolution in Hungary in 1956, approximately 200,000 Hungarians fled the country. Many Hungarian refugees came to New Jersey, some of whom were housed at Camp Kilmer,...

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TitleMinutes from a Displaced Persons Committee meeting - May 13, 1949

Date Created1949

DescriptionThese minutes from the May 13, 1949, meeting of the Displaced Persons Committee, review the Committee's plans for assisting the New Jersey Governor's office with the establishment of the New Jersey...

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TitleI remember living at Seabrook as an Estonian

AuthorSikkemae, Reet

Date Created1952-1961

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Estonian Reet Sikkemae recalls arriving at Seabrook in the early 1950s. Reet's family had been relocated to a displaced person's camp in Germany, and then had emigrated...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleReport of an exploratory study on the adjustment problems of displaced persons

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Date Created1954

DescriptionResearchers from the Rutgers University's Department of Sociology and from the Institute of Management and Labor Relations, produced this June, 1954, report, on how displaced persons adjust to living...

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TitleLetter from Marguerite L. Richards to Dean Mary Ingraham Bunting, December 2, 1956

AuthorRichards, Marguerite L.

Date Created1956

DescriptionAfter the Soviets suppressed the Revolution in Hungary in 1956, approximately 200,000 Hungarians fled the country. Many Hungarian refugees came to New Jersey, some of whom were housed at Camp Kilmer,...

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TitleReport of the Displaced Persons Committee - November 1949

Date Created1949

DescriptionThis November 1949, report from the recently formed Displaced Persons Committee recounts the Committee's process and ultimate success in lobbying the Governor to appoint a State Commission on...

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TitleMinutes from Displaced Persons Committee meeting - October 28, 1949

Date Created1949

DescriptionThis report of minutes from the October 28, 1949, Displaced Persons Committee meeting in Newark, records the Committee's plans for lobbying the New Jersey state government to create a State Commission...