us-005578-irn652254
identifier: irn652254
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1949-12-31
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/772
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…
record resource extent: 4,810 digital images, JPEG
scope and content: Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.
has record set type: Item
type: RecordSet
title: UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1943-01-01
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/843
record resource structure: Selected records arranged in four sub-groups: 1. S-1390, Central Registry. Subject File, 1945-1947; 2. S-1394, Office of the Chief Mission. Welfare and Repatriation Division: Correspondence and reports, 1945-1947; 3. S-1397, Department of Finance; 4. S-14000, Department of Supply. Distribution Division: Correspondence and reports, 1945-1947.
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn652254/alternateIDs/2
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn652254/alternateIDs/1
has or had some members with language: eng
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn652254/acquisitions/1