Unitarian Service Committee

Identifier: 1191
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

History

The Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others to form the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps.

Sources

The Holocaust, the French and the Jews / S. Zuccotti. - New York, 1993. - p. 72, 73

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Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps
- Comité de Nimes
- CCAC
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
Founded in 1940-11

After 1940-10, the camp activities of the major Jewish welfare agencies were coordinated within the Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance under the leadership of Grand Rabbi René Hirschler. A month later, the Jewish central commission met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foun...
Fred Friedman collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500579
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a photocopied article, 25 pages plus notes and lists, titled "No Time to Waste: The Unitarian Service Committee's Activities on Behalf of Victims of Nazism," along with a cover letter to an unspecified magazine (dated 1989) by Fred Friedman, the author of this article and archivist of the U.S.C. records at Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard University.
Marcel Verzeano papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516677
- English
- 1940-1942
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of a certificate issued by Varian Fry from the Emergency Rescue Committee that attests to the service of Marcel Verzeano and a certificate issued by the Unitarian Service Committee that attests to service of Marcel Verzeano.
Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn524128
- English
- 1905-2005
- 25,993 digital images, JPEG 29 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...
Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43241
- English
- 1935-1957
- 244,026 digital images, JPEG 195 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...
UNRRA selected records AG-018-011 : European Regional Office (ERO). Subject Files
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539538
- English
- 1942-1948
- 154 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected files relating to displaced persons operations in British Zone (BAOR) and the Australian United Jewish Overseas Relief Team: correspondence, statements of accounts.
UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn596985
- English
- 1943-1948
- 149,349 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Consist of correspondence, trainning materials, statistics, memorandums, reports of operations, newspapers in DP camps. Records relete to repatriation, welfare services, trainings and education, health of displaced persons, cooperation with the international organizations, health services for military, immigration of European children to USA, and matters of Jewish and other refugees.
Vakar family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548625
- English
- 1925-2013
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...