{"id":64081,"date":"2025-02-02T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/displaced-persons-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:04:44","slug":"displaced-persons-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=64081","title":{"rendered":"Displaced Persons \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Researchers examining the \u201cdisplaced persons\u201d folders in the Mayoral collections will see \u201cFile #90\u201d written in pencil on many of the documents.\u00a0Beginning with the O\u2019Dwyer administration, clerical staff adopted the practice of assigning a number to each subject file. For example, they assigned \u201cNum. #5\u201d to housing-related correspondence.\u00a0Juvenile Delinquency was \u201cNum. #112,\u201d\u00a0and Long Island Railroad was \u201cNum. File #122.\u201d Knowledge of the numbering system is useful for researchers as referral slips found in the files often have only the numerical designation.\u00a0The practice continued through the Wagner administration but appears to have been abandoned during the Lindsay years.\u00a0The \u2018key\u2019 to the numerical filing system is located in the hard-copy Mayor Wagner finding guide in the Municipal Archives and Library Reading Room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The first boatload of displaced persons arrived in New York on October 31, 1948. The story made the front page of <em>The New York Times<\/em>: \u201cThe first group of homeless Europeans to arrive under the Displaced Persons Law came up New York harbor yesterday past the Statue of Liberty amid the thunder of welcoming whistles.\u201d The story continued, \u201cAs they lined the rail of the Army transport Gen. William Black, they were a little tearful, very polite and quite stunned as the greatest city of the western world arose before them.\u201d The article quoted Mayor O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s welcoming remarks: \u201cNew York City is glad to have you here. Many of you will stay here\u2014I wish all of you could. You will like it in New York,\u201d [November 1, 1948].<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The happy circumstances described in the <em>Times<\/em> article disguised a significant defect in the federal legislation\u2014it denied an American visa to any persons who had entered a refugee camp after December 22, 1945. This seemingly arbitrary stipulation served to prohibit the entrance of Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust, but when faced with pogroms in postwar Poland, fled to the refugee camps in nearby Germany after December 22. According to information published by the Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, President Truman had reluctantly signed the bill.<em>\u201cIt is with very great reluctance that I have signed S. 2242, the Displaced Persons Act of 1948\u2026The bad points of the bill are numerous. Together they form a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice\u2026The bill discriminates in callous fashion against displaced persons of the Jewish faith\u2026The bill also excludes many displaced persons of the Catholic faith who deserve admission\u2026\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers examining the \u201cdisplaced persons\u201d folders in the Mayoral collections will see \u201cFile #90\u201d written in pencil on many of the documents.\u00a0Beginning with the O\u2019Dwyer administration, clerical staff adopted the practice of assigning a number to each subject file. For example, they assigned \u201cNum. #5\u201d to housing-related correspondence.\u00a0Juvenile Delinquency was \u201cNum. #112,\u201d\u00a0and Long Island Railroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[15936,34868,6594,15935,22749,13235,4834],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-64081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-department","tag-displaced","tag-information","tag-nyc","tag-persons","tag-records","tag-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Displaced Persons \u2014 NYC Department of Records &amp; Information Services - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=64081\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Displaced Persons \u2014 NYC Department of Records &amp; Information Services - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Researchers examining the \u201cdisplaced persons\u201d folders in the Mayoral collections will see \u201cFile #90\u201d written in pencil on many of the documents.\u00a0Beginning with the O\u2019Dwyer administration, clerical staff adopted the practice of assigning a number to each subject file. 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