A Short History of Junkers Camp, Bettenhausen, Kassel

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CLASS II

At the end of the year, only those whose names are underlined remained on the team and most of Dr. van Ackere's time was then taken up with her duties as Area Medical Officer.

Mme. Maria N. Laborde

Mme. Laborde, the Director, was a Frenchwoman of high standards, strong character, unusual intelligence, and boundless drive and energy. She was full of sympathy for the displaced persons, and her desire to help them was complete and uncolored by ambition or other ulterior motive. Her previous experience had done much to qualify her for her assignment as Director of Junkers. She had lived and worked in several different countries, and she spoke French, English and German perfectly. During the war, before joining UNRRA in Washington in October of 1944, she had filled important assignments with the U.S. Office of War Information in Paris and New York.1

Population Shifts and Repatriation.

On January 3rd., the population of Junkers Camp was as follows:

The odd nationalities were repatriated, transferred or evicted

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