I suppose this will be the last of your unforgettable posts. Another reason to regret the end of this project. So of the 250,000 Jewish DPs, how many went to Palestine and how many to the United States?
Sorry, I misunderstood and thought I had months left to finish up the Holocaust Chronicles.
Admittedly, the Holocaust itself is long over, but there are results & repercussions which reverberate for 70 years and certainly beyond, not the least of which is the Jewish Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948.
henkster: "So of the 250,000 Jewish DPs, how many went to Palestine and how many to the United States?"
Over the following years, about 400,000 European Jews settled in the new state of Israel, of whom about 136,000 had been officially registered as "displaced persons".
Tens of thousands of others settled in countries like Belgium, Britain, France & Canada.
The US was late in allowing European refugees to settle here, but by 1950 laws passed allowing for 400,000.
Of those, 137,000 were European Jews.