Genealogy Projects tagged with refugee camps on the Geni Family Tree

El Shatt - WWII refugee camps

El Shatt The El Shatt was a complex of World War II refugee camps in the desert of the Sinai peninsula, in Egypt. Residents lived there from the summer of 1944 to the beginning of 1946. The region of Dalmatia was evacuated by the Allies, ahead of a German invasion in 1944. The camp was disbanded in 1946 after the war ended. Fleeing the German offensive in the beginning of 1944, a large number...