New roots for the uprooted: Holocaust survivors as farmers in America

The 1948 DP law (amended in 1950) established a four-year program which entailed a close partnership between governmental and voluntary agencies. The latter had to develop special skills in working with immigrants in order to help them with the technicalities of migration from the DP camps in Europe to the American ports. Social workers aided immigrants in making preliminary adjustments and in achieving the first stages towards integration