American Friends Service Committee

Identifier: 004872
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

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Memoirs of Irene Arnold
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn501196
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Memoirs of Irene Arnold consist of a 71 page testimony in which she describes her childhood and upbringing in New York, work with the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as part of a team sent to Lisbon under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM) in 1942, and postwar work with UNRRA in Europe.
Oral history interview with Gabriele Derenberg Schiff
1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn506744
- English
- 4 sound cassettes (60 min.),
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Helene Barac
1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504797
- English
- 2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Hugh Jenkins
1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history volunteer collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507557
- English
- 2 sound cassettes (74 min.),
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Ralph M. Hockley
1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn533039
- English
- 1 digital file, MPEG-4
- Updated 1 year ago
Peter Feigl papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn76089
- English
- 1930-1994
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl’s wartime experiences in summer camps, children’s homes, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon‐sur‐Lignon (Haute‐Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Correspondence includes letters from Peter and his parents in Fr...
Rosenbaum family collection
1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn530426
- English
- 1941-1945
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Documents, correspondence, and photographs, including nametag #34 given to Kurt Rosenbaum by the American Friends Service Committee as he sailed from Lisbon on board Portuguese ship SS Mouzinho and arrived in New York on June 21, 1941 as part of the first transport of the US Committee for the Care of European Children. Kurt travelled to Portland, OR and was subsequently adopted by the Goldsmith family. In September 1945, he was drafted into the US Army and sent to Okinawa, Japan. Includes an honorable discharge certificate for the US Army, and copy of German birth certificate issued to Kurt.
Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
1. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn80304
- English
- 1940-1995
- boxes 3
- Updated 1 year ago
The Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers contains a unique set of correspondence and documents related to the American Friends Service Committee’s work in Rome, Marseilles, and Geneva during World War II, and the work of the War Refugee Board in Switzerland from 1944-1945. The collection includes photographs and copies of photographs of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland after their 1938 wedding; in Rome in 1940; of AFSC workers in France in 1941-1942; of the Gurs and Les Milles camps; of Roswell with their sons Barre and Kirk in 1945; and of the entire family in Switzerland ca. 1949. Copies...
Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43241
- English
- 1935-1957
- 244,026 digital images, JPEG 195 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...
Susan Warsinger papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn538565
- English
- 1934-1949
- folders oversize folders 13 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...
UNRRA selected records AG-018-002 : Controller and Public Information (S-0554)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn601607
- English
- 1943-1949
- 4,948 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel, 16 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
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.
UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn595588
- English
- 1945-1948
- 49,018 digital images,
- Updated 1 year ago
Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.
UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn596985
- English
- 1943-1948
- 149,349 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Consist of correspondence, trainning materials, statistics, memorandums, reports of operations, newspapers in DP camps. Records relete to repatriation, welfare services, trainings and education, health of displaced persons, cooperation with the international organizations, health services for military, immigration of European children to USA, and matters of Jewish and other refugees.
UNRRA selected records AG-018-039 : Germany Mission
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610285
- English
- 1919-1949
- 532,068 digital images, JPEG 238 microfilm reels (partially digitized), 16 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, circulars, newspapers, incoming and outgoing cables, intelligence reports, and reports relating to legal matters. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: interpretations, drafts, and revisions of U.S., British, French, and military agreements; military government laws affecting displaced persons and civilians; assistance for displaced persons; voluntary agencies; legal assistance and protection for displaced persons and stateless persons; unaccompanied children; emigration and repatriation of displaced persons; supplies and tr...