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The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors, who were residents of the Lintorf Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located in Lintorf quarter of the town of Ratingen, Germany.
History of the camp and area
Lintorf was the site of a displaced persons camp after World War II, providing a home for Ukrainians, Poles and Yugoslavs awaiting immigration. Ratingen had been the site of an war crime in April 1945. The bodies of eight German anti-Nazis, one woman and two Polish men were found lying in woods near the town.