Harry and Clare Lerner correspondence relating to their work with displaced persons and the UNRRA letters.
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Lerner, Harry
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Harry V. Lerner was born in Memphis, Nebraska. Prior to World War II, he was an attorney in Omaha, Nebraska. During World War II, he served in the US Army in Europe. After the war, he joined UNNRA and assisted Jewish displaced persons. In Sep 1945, he became director of UNRRRA Team 502, which was responsible for two Jewish displaced persons centers in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1946, he married Clare Lerner, who came to Germany as a volunteer worker for the Jewish Relief Unit (British). Mr. Lerner w...
United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration
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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was established in 1943. Its purpose was to provide for the relief of war victims in any area under the control of any of the United Nations. Its operations came to an end in 1946. From the description of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration records, 1943-1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 298686802 The Bureau of Services was previously known as the Bureau of Area...
American Jewish joint distribution committee
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The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded on November 27, 1914 when the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews (CCRJ) joined forces under the name of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Although JDC reflected the diversity of the American Jewish Community, the Reform-oriented American Jewish Committee faction dominated its early leadership. Conceived as a temporary agency to relie...
Elgart, Saul.
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Lerner, Clare.
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