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Dinkelsbühl to Bremerhaven and Canada, 1948

Dinkelsbühl → Canada

A memoir records that its family left Dinkelsbühl in 1948 for a resettlement processing centre near Nuremberg and sailed from Bremerhaven for Canada that September. The Arolsen inventory gives the Dinkelsbühl centre a new number from September 1948 and records its closure on 1 June 1949.

1948

The memoir's family leaves Dinkelsbühl for a resettlement processing centre near Nuremberg

Sources

DP Camp #73, Dinkelsbühl, Germany 1946–1948, and DP camps in Dinkelsbühl 1945–1949

DP camp inventory: Dinkelsbühl, DP-Camp, entry 867

September 1948

They sail from Bremerhaven for Canada

Sources

DP Camp #73, Dinkelsbühl, Germany 1946–1948, and DP camps in Dinkelsbühl 1945–1949

DP camp inventory: Dinkelsbühl, DP-Camp, entry 867

1 June 1949

The inventory records the closure of the Dinkelsbühl centre

Sources

DP Camp #73, Dinkelsbühl, Germany 1946–1948, and DP camps in Dinkelsbühl 1945–1949

Sources

DP Camp #73, Dinkelsbühl, Germany 1946–1948, and DP camps in Dinkelsbühl 1945–1949

DP camp inventory: Dinkelsbühl, DP-Camp, entry 867