CRISIS IN KOSOVO: Grim Reminder; JDC executive recalls DP camps upon return from seeing `traumatized' ethnic Albanians.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: May 7, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

CRISIS IN KOSOVO: Grim Reminder; JDC executive recalls DP camps upon return from seeing `traumatized' ethnic Albanians.

STEVE LIPMAN

STAFF WRITER

Michael Schneider has seen refugees in Bosnia, Ethiopia and Armenia during the last few decades, but a recent week in Albania recalled an older image for the executive vice president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

"It was much like the DP camps that we ran in 1945," Schneider said of his visit to eight refugee camps in Albania that are under the auspices of the United Nations, several European governments and scores of ...

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