Paul Weber Jacobs collection

Paul Weber Jacobs was born in Atchison, Kansas, on September 23, 1909. He married Ruby Vandeveer on May 20, 1941, and their first son, Peter, was born on October 4, 1942. Paul obtained a masters degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1937 and worked for a Missouri Synod Lutheran orphanage in Addison, Illinois, prior to being drafted into the United States Army at the end of 1942. He served in the Army until 1945, when he joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA.) Consists of documents related to Paul Jacobs’ experience working for UNRRA from 1945 to 1946. Included among the documents are eleven black and white photographs and approximately 150 letters written from Paul Jacobs to his wife, Ruby, and son, Peter, in the United States. The letters begin with his departure from the docks in New York, N.Y., continue through events at the displaced persons camps in Europe, and end on his return to North America at Halifax, Nova Scotia.