Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

male, 77 years old
Displacedpersonscamp, red army, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chernivtsi, Jewish person, romanian…Nazi concentration camp survivor, concentration camp
Aharon Appelfeld (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist. In 1940, the Nazis invaded his hometown. His mother was...

Henry Cohen

male
American military personnel of World War II, Föhrenwald, Displacedpersonscamp, Post World War II DP camps, Civil Servant, City College of New York
Henry Cohen was the director of Föhrenwald, the third largest Displaced Persons camp in the American sector of post-WWII Germany in 1946. A native o...
Charles Kalme

Charles Kalme

male, deceased (2003)
World War II, chess player, Latvian, chess, fide, ussr…Displacedpersonscamp
Charles Kalme (November 15 1939-2003) was an International Master of chess recognized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. Kalme was born in Riga,...

Miloslav Rechcigl Sr.

male, deceased (1973)
World War II, industry, Nazi, naturalized citizen of the United States, communist, journalist…Displacedpersonscamp
Miloslav Rechcigl, Sr. (1902-1973) was a noted Czech politician, miller, business executive and, after he immigrated to the US, editor for Radio...
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

female, 89 years old
yiddish, National Heritage Fellowship winner, Yiddish-language poet, the bronx, chernivtsi, bella…Displacedpersonscamp
Beyle (or Bella) Schaechter-Gottesman (born August 7, 1920) is a Yiddish poet and songwriter.