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Item ID | 16833 | |||
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Title | A large group of some of the two hundred Polish refugees now living in a camp in Jamaica. | |||
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Reference Code | NY_05887 | |||
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Description | A large group of some of the two hundred Polish refugees now living in a camp in Jamaica. In 1941, the Polish Government in Exile requested that the JDC paid for the transportation and guaranteed the maintenance of 200 Polish Jewish men, women and children, who were in Portugal, and sent them to Jamaica. The refugee camp in Jamaica was spread over 250 acres, and was estalblished by the British Government to care for several thousand evacuees from Gibraltar | |||
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City / Town | Kingston |  |
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Country | Jamaica | |
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Decade | 1940 | |
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Photo Date Description | c1942 | |
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Selected Search Code | Terra | |
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Size | 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 | |||
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