United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Calumet Public School Library
The Calumet Public School Library received the collection from the brother of Raymond Fadner who collected the material while working at UNRRA during World War II. The library donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of 31 official United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) photographs, with captions, depicting the various relief programs and actions of the organization following World War II and 23 labels describing the images that are duplicates of the photograph captions. Activities at UNRRA facilities in China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, are depicted.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Fadner, Raymond H.
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Medical aspects of war--1940-1950.
- International agricultural assistance--1940-1950.
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Bad Hersfeld (Germany)
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)
- International economic assistance--1940-1950.
- Naples (Italy)
- Wiesbaden (Germany)
- Food relief--1940-1950.
- Refugees--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Labels.
- Document