Displaced Persons Act

Signed into law by U.S. president Harry S. Truman on June 25, 1948, the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 allowed for the entry of 100,000 DPs from Europe into the U.S. per year. The Act, which was amended in 1950, greatly expanded previously enforced national origin quotas and facilitated the immigration of some 400,000 DPs between 1948-1952. An estimated 80,000 of the were Jews.