Postwar Card File (A-Z)

Scope and content

The so-called Postwar Card File is the oldest collection of the ITS (see Archival History). More recently, a large number of other card types have been added in addition to copies of DP 2 cards. They originate from various DP camps and from different organisations that took care of the Displaced Persons (DPs) after the end of the Second World War. The documents contained, including DP identification papers, are the result of registrations of DPs by, among others, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), DP camps, other relief organizations or authorities.

Contained are – among others - the following card types:
• DP 2 cards
• DP 3 cards
• Central index card of the CCLJ (Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone in Germany)
• DP Statistical Card Austria
• IRO card (French and british occupation zone)
• Registration cards DP camp Mittenwald / Transient Camp, partly with photographs
• Cards of the DP hospital Munich-Schwabing
• Cards of the AJDC Location Service Belsen
• Registration cards resettlement center Munich-Freimann
• Refugee/Displaced Persons statistical cards
• DP identity cards (French occupation zone)
• Karta Ewidencyjna

For detailed context information concerning the origin, meaning and use of the different cards, see: https://eguide.arolsen-archives.org/en/