Dorothy L. Jones Miller collection

Identifier
irn608271
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Barbara, C. Richard, and G. Robert Miller, children of Dorothy L. Jones Miller. Accretions of additional material were added to the collection in 2016 and 2017.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, dolls, UNRRA patches, name bracelet, metal pins, dolls, doilies, other woven and embroidered items, wooden boxes, pewter set, silver pins and spoon - gifted to Ms. Jones or purchased by her at DP market; Drawings and caricatures; two photo albums founds by Ms. Jones in the building where UNRRA was housed - the albums belonged to German officers and date 1940 and 1941. Oil painting by Nora Drapche, a DP from Latvia, of a washer woman. Blouse, poster, photographs, correspondence, ration card, Christmas cards.

Genre

  • Collection
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