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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Italy, 1945-1951

Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Italy, 1945-1951

April 25, 2008 | Dr. Susanna Kokkonen
Despite the Racial Laws of fascist Italy implemented in 1938, thousands of foreign Jews were authorized to remain in the country. These Jewish prewar and wartime refugees, about 20 percent of all Jewish refugees in postwar Italy, were the so-called old refugees.