DPs to Priest: 'Glad to be here!'

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DPs TO PRIEST: 'GLAD TO BE HERE!'

#C-7938

BOSTON -- AMONG THE 808 DISPLACED PERSONS WHO

FORMED THE SECOND GROUP OF HOMELESS EUROPEANS TO

REACH AMERICAN SOIL WERE MARIE ANO JAN OUHRABKA OF

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SHOWN BEING WELCOMED BY MSGR.

EDWARD SWANSTROM, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC

RESETTLEMENT COUNCIL. PASSENGER LIST INCLUDED 262

CATHOLICS, 118 GREEK CATHOLICS, 108 PROTESTANTS,

273 JEWS AND 38 ORTHODOX.

CREDIT MUST READ:

RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (O'C-BOS-11D-8-JOG-C)

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Title: DPs to Priest: 'Glad to be here!'
Description: Monsignor Swanstrom of the National Catholic Resettlement Council welcomes a refugee family from Czechoslovakia.
Date: 1948
ca. 1948
Subject names: Religious News Service--Archives.
Church World Service.
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.)
Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston.
National Catholic Resettlement Council (U.S.)
Swanstrom, Edward.
Ouhrabka, Marie.
Ouhrabka, Jan.
Topics: Refugees--Czechoslovakia.
Refugee families--Czechoslovakia.
Missions
Catholic Church and world politics.
Geographic subject: Massachusetts
Boston.
Czechoslovakia.
Boston (Mass.)
North and Central America--United States------Suffolk--Massachusetts--Boston----
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Geographic subject: Boston (Mass.)
Form: acetate negatives
Extent: acetate negative : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches
Physical location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 18A, image no. C-7938; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...
Rights status: IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-7938
PID (Persistent Identifier): islandora:148442