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Displaced Persons identity card issued to Helmut Juske for Camp Bleidorn 21 August 1945
Displaced Persons identity card issued to Helmut Juske for Camp Bleidorn 21 August 1945

Displaced Persons identity card issued to Helmut Juske for Camp Bleidorn 21 August 1945

Date1945
Object number00006877
NameIdentity card
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 87 × 100 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Helmut Juske
HistoryCamp Bleidorn, in Bavaria, founded as a German Army camp it was used in 1945 and 1946 as a refugee repatriation camp which dealt primarily with homeless Jews. It later processed displaced persons from many of the eastern European countries.