A survivor's tale in its own right, in which Joseph Berger --- a veteran reporter for The New York Times --- reflects on the immigrant experience precipitated and inescapably shadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust. A Polish-Jewish boy living with his parents in New York in the 1940s, Berger's childhood remembrances illuminate the challenge of integrating the dual worlds of the "displaced person" growing up in America after the Holocaust --- the safe yet unfamiliar land of opportunity vs. an unwelcoming homeland forever associated with unimaginable loss and atrocity. Marked by the kind of honest but not overly sentimental prose characteristic of a journalist, DISPLACED PERSONS is a long overdue testament to the precarious and extraordinarily courageous existence of the 140,000 refugees that escaped to the United States between 1946 and 1953.