Yugoslav refugee camp in Egypt

The fond contains documentation of several departments of the Central Committee in El Shatt, Egypt, from World War II. The camp was home to refugees from Croatia, mostly women and children, so the fonds contains information about them and the conditions of their stay in the camp. There are also documents on the work of the Anti-fascist Women’s Front organization, copies of their newspaper Žena zbjega (“Women Refugees”), and photographs of women in the refugee camp.

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Original source name : Jugoslavenski zbjeg u Egiptu
English translation : Yugoslav refugee camp in Egypt
Creator : Administration
Document- type 1 : correspondence
Document- type 2 : reports
Reference number : HR-DAST-23
Language(s) : Croatian
Geographical coverage : Croatia, Egypt
Time range : 20thc.
Year(s) : 1944-1946
Theme 1 : experience of migration
Theme 2 : war and displacement
Link to the item in the catalogue : https://hais.arhiv.hr/HDA/trazilica/arhivsko-gradivo/b42be586-dadc-4b1e-9bf5-36f70a5b703d
Publication(s) : Bieber, Florian. 2020. "Building Yugoslavia in the Sand? Dalmatian Refugees in Egypt, 1944–1946." Slavic Review 79 (2): 298–323.

Archive name : Državni arhiv u Splitu
Archive name (English) : State Archives in Split
Archive address : Ulica glagoljaša 18, 21000 Split, Croatia
City : Split
Country : Croatia
Official website and institutional resources : https://www.das.hr/
Finding aid(s) : https://hais.arhiv.hr/HDA/

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