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From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

Routine administrative files and preliminary drafts of releases and other publicity materials, accounting files, reports and correspondence of international organizations; reports from particular missions and displaced persons camps, UNRRA administrative organization charts and statistics. Much of records were destroyed by UNRRA or later by the Archives Section.

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The Betty Drury collection regarding the Emergency Committee consists of documentation on individuals who successfully or unsuccessfully sought the Committee’s aid. In all, some 6,000 displaced scholars and professional persons from Europe appealed to the Committee. Of that number 335 were granted assistance through the Committee. Series 3 is particularly notable and contains biographical information ...

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"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and ...

Syma Crane (b. 1921) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) to Chaim and Basia Minc. Syma’s parents and sisters Sonja Minc Lipofsky and Chaya Minc Chodos perished in the Holocaust. Her brother Czalel Minc survived in hiding in Belgium. Syma and her husband Marcus Klok fled Vilnius in 1941 and used ten day Japanese transit visas obtained via the Jewish Labor Bund under the false names Syma and ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in 1943 in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for UNRRA. He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), ...