• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610286
• English
• 1932-1949
• 51 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected files of the UNRRA Washington DC Headquarters: files on the European Mission, the Displaced Persons Division, the Welfare Division and Branches, history of the UNRRA; files of personnel recruitment, status, regulations, trainings, salary and causalities, decorations and awards, staff visits to Europe, China and Middle East; files on the UNESCO Staffing and Fellowship Programs, the voluntary agencies, economic recovery and educational rehabilitation, finance and administration, clothing and food collection, minutes of meetings of various Committees and UNRRA Council sessions, report...

• 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652256
• English
• 1943-1949
• 6,031 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence, reports, transport lists, and forms of individual case of repatriated persons. Records relate to repatriation of Chinese nationals, Czechoslovakian, German and Polish Jews, Poles, Greek nationals, and unaccompanied children. Contains correspondence, reports, transport lists, and individual cases of repatriated German Jews.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652259
• English
• 1945-1947
• 1,106 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of monthly reports, statistics, financial records and correspondence relating to assistance to displaced persons, repatriation cases, tracing of war victims, and welfare activities of the Danish Red Cross and other voluntary agencies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652253
• English
• 1944-1949
• 3,267 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the UNRRA Central Registry Files and Subject Files relating to relief and rehabilitation, welfare inquires, and displaced persons and refugees on the Dodecanese and Rhodes area.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543510
• English
• 1943-1949
• 3,893 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected records of the UNRRA Offices in France: correspondence between London and Paris, 1944-49, subject files, reports, and medical office files, 1944-48, monthly mission reports, daily bulletins, displaced persons reports, organizational charts, field operations, statistical reports of emigrants including unaccompanied children.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652252
• English
• 1944-1949
• 48,743 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Correspondence, press releases, individual stories, monthly and annual reports, field trip reports, statistics, and working materials on training courses. Records relate to the UNRRA assistance and relief to war refugees, displaced Jews, child welfare, food supplies for hospitals and orphanages. Includes files of displaced persons organized by regions.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652257
• English
• 1944-1949
• 5,263 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652255
• English
• 1944-1949
• 2,082 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652254
• English
• 1943-1949
• 4,810 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn532704
• English
• 1945-1946
• 1,321 digital images, TIFF
• Updated 1 year ago

Cables, miscellaneous correspondence, statistics, lists of unaccompanied children, search requests, minutes of meetings, and status reports from the UNRRA Swedish Mission Office relating to efforts to assist the Displaced Persons camps in Sweden after the war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539541
• English
• 1944-1949
• 2,302 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn652260
• English
• 1946
• 378 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Consist of general files relating to displaced persons.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539540
• English
• 1944-1949
• 477 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539539
• English
• 1944-1949
• 511 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected files of the Latin America Procurement Offices: Correspondence of the government officials of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador; financial reports and budget planning; displaced persons matters and press information.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539535
• English
• 1944-1949
• 1,228 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610285
• English
• 1919-1949
• 532,068 digital images, JPEG 238 microfilm reels (partially digitized), 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, circulars, newspapers, incoming and outgoing cables, intelligence reports, and reports relating to legal matters. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: interpretations, drafts, and revisions of U.S., British, French, and military agreements; military government laws affecting displaced persons and civilians; assistance for displaced persons; voluntary agencies; legal assistance and protection for displaced persons and stateless persons; unaccompanied children; emigration and repatriation of displaced persons; supplies and tr...

1. Isidor Urbach family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn607940
• English
• 1910-1995
• folders oversize box 6 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Urbach family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a scrapbook documenting the family of Jewish dentist Isidor Urbach from Poznań, the family’s survival in ghettos and in hiding during World War II, and the two girls named Masza Zunszajn and Roza Zaltz the family hid during the war. Biographical materials include a birth certificate, vaccination record, identification documents, permits and passes, work documents, and a list of products the Urbachs offered at their soup kitchen in Włodawa following liberation. Correspondence includes prewar family post...

1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn49816
• English
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents relating to Ursula Cohn, later Lichtenstein (donor's maternal aunt). The documents include birth certificates of Sally Cohn and Klara Heymann (donor's maternal grandparents); correspondence relating to reparations claims for imprisonment, physical harm and loss of property. Ursula Cohn was born on September 20, 1924 in Berlin. In June 1942 she was deported together with her mother Klara and sister Ruth, to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. They worked in mica factory which saved them from further deportations. Collection of documents relating to Herbert Lichtens...

1. Ursula Levy collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn526667
• English
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Max and Lucia Levy and their children George and Ursula Levy, from Lippstadt, Germany. Max, a World War I veteran was arrested in 1938 with his brother Ludwig and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; they both perished as a result of their imprisonment. Lucia sent her children in 1939 to Holland where they were taken in by Joseph and Agnes van Mackelenbergh and then in St. Jacob's convent in Eersal, Holland. George and Ursula were denounced and deported to Vught and Westerbork concentration camps and then to ...