Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1941-1952.

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Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1941-1952.

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This collection documents many aspects of the relief work that the Unitarian Service Committee conducted in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Holland, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Several different agencies and organizations are represented, such as the Council of Relief Agencies Licensed for Operation in Germany (CRALOG); the Child Projects Department of the USC, which included the American Youth for World Youth and a home for children in Olesovice, Czechoslovakia; and general reports that describe the relief work that the USC was doing with refugees in France and other countries. Many of these reports describe the conditions of the refugees, and outline the needs of the USC, which include money, clothing, and medical supplies. Individual correspondents include Helen Fogg, Raymond Bragg, Arthur Lee (director in France in 1948), Charles Joy, Noel Field, Ernst Papanek, and Herman Ebeling and Friedl Reifer, who were the two assistant directors from the New York office. Some files on work camps in the United States and overseas are also included.

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Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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The Unitarian Service Committee (USC) was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to investigate opportunities in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human right...