Scouting in displaced persons camps
[3] These Scout and Girl Guide groups often provided postal delivery and other basic services in displaced persons camps.
[30] "The Polish Rovers at Lubeck were by no means the only displaced persons who turned to Scouting as the solution to their troubles.
The report of the American, Harry K. Eby, on Scouting in the displaced persons' camps of the United States Zone shows that by 1946 seven major nationalities had established Scout Committees and were doing their utmost to supervise the work of their groups throughout the zone and in places beyond it.
The program which they drew up, consisting as it did of training courses, conferences, the collection of literature, the publishing of Scout magazines and the passing of tests for badges, was, he notes, comprehensive and of fine quality.
At Camp Esslingen, for example, he discovered that 165 Latvian Scouters had drawn up a well-planned program for training Scoutmasters, Scouters and Commissioners, while at Augsburg the Ukrainian Scouts to the number of 728 had celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Scouting in their country.
Russian Scouts of the Greek Orthodox Church had built up "an extensive and long-standing organisation," and the Poles and White Ruthenians in the zone were equally active.
These various organizations were fortunate enough to receive a supply of Scout literature from the World Friendship Fund which, among other books, sent several hundred copies of Aids to Scoutmastership.
"Our best effort was quite unintentional," reports the British Governor of a colony of 15,000 Poles housed in eight villages close to Minden.
When I went to a German clothing manufacturer and ordered a thousand Scout uniforms he thought I was mad but he made them."...
[52] In 1960 the Norfolk International Jamboree, held at Sennowe Park near Fakenham, drew media attention due to the presence of fifty "European refugees.
"[53] German Catholic Scout groups existed in prisoner of war camps in the United Kingdom and France.
[54][55] In POW Camp 273 at Debach Airfield (near Ipswich) existed a German Catholic Scout group from 1946 to 1948.
[56] Scout groups including Germans and Austrians existed in several Prisoner of war camps of the western Allies.
[64] German Catholic Scout groups existed in prisoner of war camps in the United States.
[54][55] Examples include: A German Catholic Scout group existed from 1945 to 1946 in the POW camp Fort Devens.
Together with the Lutheran camp parish and the Kolpingfamilie the Scouts collected money to help Germany and consigned 10,000 dollars to the Caritas.
[66] On December 6, 1942, one of the pro-Japanese internees at Manzanar started rushing towards the flagpole to tear down the American flag.
A group of Japanese American Boy Scouts, surrounded the flagpole and armed themselves with stones the size of baseballs, refusing to allow the flag to be taken down.
[65] Between 1944 and 1946 there was an international Boy Scout troop in Oswego, N.Y whose members were young Jewish refugees from Europe.
[70][71] Refugees from Poland during World War II founded Scout troops, Guide companies, Cub and Brownie packs.
[71] Refugees from Poland during World War II had Scouting activities such as summer camps organized by Polish Scouters.
"[72] Refugees from Poland during World War II founded Scout groups in Northern Rhodesia.
[75] In the 7th World Jamboree in 1951 Scouts-in-Exile and DP-Scouts from Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania participated as part of the German contingent.
The Council of Scout Associations in Exile camped at Subcamp Copenhangen and included Scouts-in-exile from Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine.
D.P.Scout Division of the Boy Scouts International Bureau was active in Austria, Northern Italy and West Germany.
[84] Since the resolution 14/47 was drafted it was clear that no "National Movements on Foreign Soil" would be registered by the Boy Scouts International Bureau.
Mona Burgin was the leader of the first team briefed to find and support Guides living in displaced persons' camps.
The Scouts' International Relief Service was active in refugee and displaced persons' camps in Northwest Europe, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Hong Kong.
From 1945 teams of women were formed to undertake medical, catering and canteen duties, establishing feeding schemes in camps; providing hospital equipment, medical supplies and disease control, as well as food and general relief supplies, saving thousands of lives.
