us-005578-irn596985
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-cb/004872
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1943-01-01
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scope and content: 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.
title: UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services
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record resource structure: Selected records arranged in six sub-series: 1. Executive Office, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1248 to S-1249]; 2. Division of Repatriation and Welfare, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1252 to S-1258]; 3. Displaced Persons Division, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1259 to S-1262]; 4. Camps Division and the Bureau of Areas, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1263 and S-1264]; 5. Office of Voluntary and International Agency Liaison OVIAL, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1265 to S-1270]; 6. Health Services, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1271 to S-1273]. Note: See the finding aid of detail arrangement of selected files.
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type: RecordSet
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has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1948-12-31
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn596985/alternateIDs/1
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section
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conditions of use: Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section
biographical history: 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 of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations through the provision of food, fuel, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities, medical and other essential services" Its staff of civil servants included 12,000 people, with headquarters in New York. Funding came from many nations, and totaled $3.7 billion, of which the United States contributed $2.7 billion; Britain $625 million and Canada $139 million. The Administration of UNRRA at the peak of operations in mid-1946 included five types of offices and missions with a staff totaling nearly 25,000: The Headquarters Office in Washington, The European Regional Office (London), the 29 servicing offices and missions (2 area offices in Cairo and Sydney; 10 liaison offices and missions in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Trieste; 12 procurement offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and later Peru, Cuba, India, Mexico, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela; 6 offices for procurement of surplus military supplies in Caserta and later Rome, Honolulu, Manila, New Delhi, Paris, Shanghai), the sixteen missions to receiving countries (Albania, Austria, Byelorussia, China, Czechoslovakia, the Dodecanese Islands, Ethiopia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia), and the Displaced Persons Operations in Germany. UNRRA cooperated closely with dozens of volunteer charitable organizations, who sent hundreds of their own agencies to work alongside UNRRA. In operation only three years, the agency d…
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record resource extent: 149,349 digital images, JPEG
has or had some members with language: eng
identifier: irn596985