Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980

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Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980

Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422850981

The photographs in this collection document the work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees in a number of countries throughout the world. Some of the photographs depict the work of the Service Committees in Europe during and after World War II. These photographs document relief efforts in France and Germany, and, on a more limited basis, in countries such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The Unitarian Service Committee administered 10 homes for displaced and unaccompanied children in the British Zone of Germany, in cooperation with the International Relief Organization of the United Nations and the British Control Commission. Also participating in the running of the homes was the Arbeiter Wohlfahrt, an anti-Nazi German workers' organization that had been suppressed under Hitler. The Service Committees were also very active in France, offering medical help and shelter to many victims of war in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Meillon, Monnetier, Modane, St. Goin, St. Jean de Luz, and Toulouse. This collection also includes photographs of many key USC members, such as William Emerson, Duncan Howlett, Elizabeth and Robert Dexter, Persis Miller, Gustav Ulrich, Helen Fogg, Charles Joy, and Noel Field. It also includes photographs of some of the children rescued by Martha Sharp; the Diamant sisters, 1942; Mercedes Brown, 1940; and the Theis sisters, 1940.

14 boxes (4.9 linear feet)

Harvard University, Divinity School Library