United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

UNRRA

Identifier: 001704
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

1943/1945 - 1947

History

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations. It was founded in 1943 but its main activity started after WWII in 1945. UNRRA has an aim to relief the victims of war by donating them food, fuel, medical care, shelter, clothing and other essential necessities. UNRRA cooperated with many charitable organizations and later in 1948 it was replaced by Marshall plan.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Rehabilitation_Administration

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"A Visit by Eisenhower"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503431
- English
- 1992
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of a four-page typescript, written by Eli Rock, entitled "A Visit by Eisenhower." The subject is the writer's observations of a visit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. to the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Jul. 1945.
1981 International Liberators Conference collection Saarbrücken labor camp
1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502659
- English
- 1981-1982
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains letters written by Edward C. Gustely in 1981 and 1982 concerning his liberation experiences at a labor camp near Saarbrücken, Germany, and his subsequent work as a sanitation officer with the 83rd US Infantry Division at the Bindermichl housing camp in Linz, Austria.
Albert Hutler letters relating to displaced persons in the American Zone of occupied Germany
1. Albert Hutler collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503715
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Relates to U.S. Army's military government postwar management and care of displaced persons and their repatriation, particularly in the American Zone of occupied Germany.
American OSE Committee (RG 494)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564187
- English
- 1941-1955
- 17,218 digital images, JPEG 30 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...
Arthur Greenbaum papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523537
- English
- 1946
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The Arthur Greenbaum papers consists of six documents relating to Arthur Greenbaum (Szlama Gruenbaum) and his experiences immediately following the Holocaust as a refugee and his immigration to the United States. Included in his collection are two documents for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at the Backnang Displaced Persons Camp. One document recommends Szlama for citizenship in the United States, while the other is a signed statement by Abraham Fuchs, verifying that he was with Szlama Gruenbaum in Mauthausen Concentration Camp and later in the Backnang Displac...
Articles and other documents relating to Rabbi Aladar Deutsch and the Jewish community of Prague
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502897
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of articles relating to Rabbi Aladar Deutsch, the last chief rabbi of Prague, Czechoslovakia, prior to the Holocaust, and the Jewish community of Prague. Other documents in the collection include the birth certificate of Aladar Deutsch and a letter written by Deutsch to his daughter informing her of the lift of the quarantine in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Each document is accompanied by a summary description written in English by William Dickman.
Articles and U.S. military records relating to displaced persons in postwar Europe
1. Albert Hutler collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503065
- English
- 1945
- folders 4
- Updated 1 year ago
Includes copies of military documents and other materials from various U.S. Army authorities (e.g., 7th U.S. Army, Headquarters USFET, SHAEF) in postwar Europe concerning the management, care, living conditions, and repatriation of displaced persons. Also included are two copies of the report written by Earl G. Harrison to President Truman in 1945 concerning conditions for displaced persons in Europe, together with a condensed version of the same report that appeared in the "National Jewish monthly," November 1945 issue.
Articles, clippings, and other materials relating to the UNRRA and displaced persons
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503019
- English
- oversize folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of several newspaper and magazine articles concerning Jews and displaced persons and the activities of American and British armies in the occupied zones in Europe after World War II. Included are three issues of "UNRRA," which concern the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with displaced persons after the Holocaust. Also included are issues of Jewish publications in Brazil containing articles about displaced persons and two issues of "Army talks."
Basel family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn506463
- English
- 1906-1975
- folders 6
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains two passports for Ruwen Basel, three identification cards for Fela Liebgold and Ruwen Basel, correspondence pertaining to reparation payments, and Ruwen Basel's work for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp supply officer.
Bekennende Kirche II
1. Nachlässe
2. Benfey, Bruno
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
- ED 214 / 3
- German
- 1940-1952
- Updated 10 years ago
Korrespondenz, Aufzeichnungen, Bescheinigungen Familie Bruno Benfey, 1940-1952, betr. seelsorgerische Tätigkeiten in den besetzten Niederlanden (Flüchtlingspfarrer), Befreiung von der Tragepflicht eines gelben Sterns, Arbeitsnachweise und Reisegenehmigungen Benfey in den Niederlanden, Rückkehr und Wiedereinsetzung als Pfarrer in St. Marien (Göttingen) [Kopie].
Blue leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
1. Michel Shadur family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517550
- English
- 1945-1947
- overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Dark blue leather wallet used by Michel Schadur (later Shadur) in Belgium, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced to flee once more. Traveling by private car, they eventually made their way to Lisbon, Portugal. They sailed for New York on board the SS Exe...
Brown leather billfold used by a Latvian Jewish refugee and aid worker from Nazi Germany
1. Michel Shadur family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517549
- English
- 1935-1947
- overall: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wallet used by Michel Schadur (later Shadur) in Belgium, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced to flee once more. Traveling by private car, they eventually made their way to Lisbon, Portugal. They sailed for New York on board the SS Exeter on February 21...
Carl Atkin papers
1. Carl Atkin collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518917
- English
- 1945-1946
- folders 19
- Updated 1 year ago
The Carl Atkins papers comprise documents and photographs related to the his work as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration director of the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1945 and 1946. Materials include an illustrated song book, clippings from the camp’s newspaper, Deggendorf Center Revue, and a memory book created by members of the camp for Carl upon his departure in 1946. Several of Atkin’s identification cards are also included here, as are biographical materials, including a resume and partial memoir. The photographs in this collection include images of ...
Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha
- Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
- UNRRA
- Národní archiv
- 313
- English
- 1943-1951
- 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.
- Updated 6 years ago
In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...
Charles R. Lord papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn544714
- English
- 1946-1947
- boxes 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection contains photographs and correspondence documenting Charles R. Lord’s trip aboard the SS Carroll Victory “Cattleboat I” to deliver livestock to Greece as part of a relief mission by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from November 1946 to March 1947. The correspondence is primarily between Charles and his wife Josephine. The photographs document the livestock delivery as well as trips to villages and cities in Greece, Palestine, and Africa. An itinerary of the SS Carroll Victory is also included.
Charles Rosenbloom Dachau collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504521
- English
- 1945-1947
- 4 linear in., 23 microfiche,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains photocopies of camp prisoners' newsletters, proceedings and minutes of meetings, communiques, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and a scrapbook relating to Charles Rosenbloom's work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Team 115 at Dachau concentration camp shortly after World War II and his involvement with the International Prisoners' Committee in Dachau.
Civilförsvarsstyrelsen
- Swedish Civil Defence Board
- Krigsarkivet
- Civilförsvarsstyrelsen
- English
- 1944-1986
- 467 linear meters of mainly textual records.
- Updated 7 months ago
Among the documents are letters to and from authorities, correspondence, activity reports, as well as documents relating to the operations in Lübeck and in camps in Sweden. The documents also include reports from inspections of refugee camps. In one of the archive's series (D), there are registers of refugees (and survivors). In another series (F 7), there are a large number of documents regarding the reception and initial care of survivors from concentration camps in Nazi Germany who were evacuated to Sweden in 1945. In these documents, there are also details about the conditions in the va...
Commemorative ribbon worn by a director of the Deggendorf DP camp
1. Carl Atkin collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn538650
- English
- overall: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Commemorative ribbon worn by Carl Atkin for a reception dinner for Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion held in Los Angeles, California, in 1951. Following Israel’s War of Independence (1947-1949), Ben-Gurion turned to American Jewish leaders to help him raise funds by issuing bonds. After the launch of these bonds, he traveled to Los Angeles, California, in 1951, where he was hosted by the Los Angeles Committee for the State of Israel Bonds and the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel, where Carl Atkin worked. Prior to the end of World War II in 1945, Carl accepted...
Dana I. Alvi memoir
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504117
- English
- 1990
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Relates to Dana Alvi's experiences as a child in Warsaw, Poland during World War II; her family's involvement in protecting and hiding Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto; the activities of her uncle, Wladyslaw Wisniewski, in helping Warsaw's Jewish population; the events of the Warsaw Uprising; the Soviet occupation of Warsaw; postwar internment in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany.
David Jakubowski papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514266
- English
- 1940-1949
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of documents and letters relating to Dr. David Jakubowski's time in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a physician before and during the uprising and also relating to his time of medical service with several refugee aid agencies after World War II.

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