The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
On September 22nd, 2022, Professor David Nasaw joined the Purchase College Jewish Studies Department for a lecture on his book, The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War.
In this talk, Professor Nasaw investigated what happened to a quarter of a million Holocaust survivors who wound up for years in quasi-incarceration in Germany because no nation, including the United States, would provide them refuge. Congressional legislation in June 1948, which allowed the immigration of Europe’s displaced persons, wound up benefitting thousands of Nazi collaborators and war criminals but not 90% of the Jewish survivors.