bMS 16024

Unitarian Service Committee. Executive Director. Records, 1941-1953.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 16024
• Title: Unitarian Service Committee. Records, 1941-1953.
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
• Quantity: 7 boxes

Administrative Information:

• Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection. 

Historical Note:

The Unitarian Service Committee was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to investigate opportunities in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, The Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human rights and social justice throughout the world.

Scope and Content Note:

This collection consists of the correspondence and reports of many people associated with the Unitarian Service Committee. Among the individuals represented in this collection are: Raymond Bragg (executive director), Howard Brooks (associate director), Edward Cahill (associate director), Lotta Hitschmanova (director of the USC in Canada), Noel Field (European director of the USC), Helen French (director of the Bad Rothenfelde children's home in Germany), Helen Fogg (director of child and youth projects), Varian Fry (founder of the Centre Americain de Secours in Marseille), Seth Gano (vice-chairman of the USC's first Board of Directors), and Charles Joy (executive director). The collection documents the efforts the Unitarian Service Committee made during and after World War II to feed and clothe displaced children and adults in Europe, and to help many of them flee Europe and establish themselves elsewhere. Edward Cahill's correspondence concerns Japanese relocation efforts in the United States. The establishment of the USC medical missions is discussed in the files of Howard Brooks. The purpose of these medical missions was to send physicians and scientists overseas to share American medical and scientific techniques with doctors who had suffered from the long blackout on scientific knowledge caused by war and dictatorships.

Container List:

• bMS 16024/1 (1) Bragg, Raymond, 1942-1944.
• bMS 16024/1 (2) Bragg, Raymond, 1945.
• bMS 16024/1 (3) Bragg, Raymond, 1948.
• bMS 16024/1 (4) Bragg, Raymond. Personal, 1950.
• bMS 16024/1 (5) Bragg, Raymond. Speaking, 1950.
• bMS 16024/1 (6) Bragg, Raymond, 1950-1951.
• bMS 16024/1 (7) Bragg, Raymond. Radio manuscript, 1951.
• bMS 16024/1 (8) British Unitarian Service Committee, 1944-1945.
• bMS 16024/1 (9) Brooks, Howard, 1949-1950.
• bMS 16024/1 (10) Brooks, Howard. Correspondence, New York, 1953.
• bMS 16024/1 (11) Brooks, Howard. Indonesia.
• bMS 16024/1 (12) Brooks, Howard. Southwest area organizational chart.
• bMS 16024/1 (13) Brooks, Howard. Speaking engagements, Fall.
• bMS 16024/1 (14) Brooks, Howard, 1941-1945.
• bMS 16024/1 (15) Brooks, Howard, 1941-1946.
• bMS 16024/1 (16) Brooks, Howard, 1942.
• bMS 16024/1 (17) Brooks, Howard. Service squad, 1942.
• bMS 16024/1 (18) Brooks, Howard. Italy background, 1944.
• bMS 16024/1 (19) Brooks, Howard. Medical mission, 1944.
• bMS 16024/2 (1) Brooks, Howard, 1945.
• bMS 16024/2 (2) Brooks, Howard. Report on tour of inspection, 1948.
• bMS 16024/2 (3) Brooks, Howard. Citizens' Committee on Displaced Persons, 1949.
• bMS 16024/2 (4) Brooks, Howard. Family, 1950.
• bMS 16024/2 (5) Brooks, Howard. Halle, Knut, 1950.
• bMS 16024/2 (6) Brooks, Howard. Personal, 1950.
• bMS 16024/2 (7) Brooks, Howard, 1950-1951.
• bMS 16024/2 (8) Brooks, Howard. Personal, 1951.
• bMS 16024/2 (9) Brooks, Howard. European tour, 1952.
• bMS 16024/2 (10) Brooks, Howard. Personal, 1952.
• bMS 16024/2 (11) Brooks, Howard. Indonesia, 1953.
• bMS 16024/2 (12) Brooks, Howard. Israel, 1953.
• bMS 16024/2 (13) Brooks, Howard. Personal, 1953.
• bMS 16024/2 (14) Brooks, Howard. Resignation, 1953.
• bMS 16024/2 (15) Brooks, Howard. Personal, 1953-1954.
• bMS 16024/2 (16) Brooks, Judge Lawrence, 1950.
• bMS 16024/2 (17) Brundage, Percival, 1941-1944.
• bMS 16024/2 (18) Brundage, Percival, 1945.
• bMS 16024/2 (19) Brundage, Percival, 1946.
• bMS 16024/2 (20) Brundage, Percival, 1950.
• bMS 16024/2 (21) Burnstan, Rowland, 1948.
• bMS 16024/2 (22) Burnstan, Rowland, 1950.
• bMS 16024/3 (1) Burton, Senator Harold, 1942-1944.
• bMS 16024/3 (2) Burton, Senator Harold, 1945.
• bMS 16024/3 (3) Cahill, Edward, 1944.
• bMS 16024/3 (4) Cahill, Edward, 1944-1945.
• bMS 16024/3 (5) Cahill, Edward, 1945.
• bMS 16024/3 (6) Cahill, Edward. Personal, 1945.
• bMS 16024/3 (7) Cahill, Edward, 1947.
• bMS 16024/3 (8) Cahill, Edward, 1950.
• bMS 16024/3 (9) Canada. Cables.
• bMS 16024/3 (10) Canada. Hamilton branch.
• bMS 16024/3 (11) Canada. Hitschmanova, Lotta, letters from, 1947-1948.
• bMS 16024/3 (12) Canada. Hitschmanova, Lotta, letters to, 1947-1948.
• bMS 16024/3 (13) Canada. Miscellaneous.
• bMS 16024/3 (14) Canada. Reports.
• bMS 16024/3 (15) Canada. Shipment letters.
• bMS 16024/3 (16) Canada. Vancouver.
• bMS 16024/3 (17) Canada, 1947.
• bMS 16024/3 (18) Canada. Annual report, 1947.
• bMS 16024/3 (19) Canada. Hitschmanova, Lotta, 1950.
• bMS 16024/3 (20) Canada. Reports, 1948.
• bMS 16024/3 (21) Canada. Reports, 1950.
• bMS 16024/3 (22) Confidential correspondence, 1947-1948.
• bMS 16024/4 (1) Alpert, Katya, research director. Correspondence, 1946-1947.
• bMS 16024/4 (2) Davies, Dr. A. Powell, 1950.
• bMS 16024/4 (3) Dexter, Robert, 1941-1947.
• bMS 16024/4 (4) Dexter, Robert. Personal, 1944.
• bMS 16024/4 (5) Ebeling, Herman, 1950.
• bMS 16024/4 (6) Emerson, William, 1945-1946.
• bMS 16024/4 (7) Emerson, William. Progress report, 1946.
• bMS 16024/4 (8) Emerson, William, 1950.
• bMS 16024/4 (9) Field, Noel. Correspondence.
• bMS 16024/4 (10) Field, Noel. Newspaper clippings.
• bMS 16024/4 (11) Field, Noel, 1941-1944.
• bMS 16024/4 (12) Field, Noel. Hungary, 1945.
• bMS 16024/4 (13) Field, Noel. Minutes, 1946-1947.
• bMS 16024/4 (14) Field, Noel, 1949.
• bMS 16024/4 (15) Field, Noel, 1950.
• bMS 16024/4 (16) Findly, John K., 1945.
• bMS 16024/4 (17) Fisher, Carleton.
• bMS 16024/4 (18) Fogg, Helen, 1947.
• bMS 16024/4 (19) Food collection.
• bMS 16024/4 (20) Foreign mail received, 1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (1) French, Helen, 1950.
• bMS 16024/5 (2) Fritchman, Stephen, 1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (3) Fry, Varian M., 1941-1944.
• bMS 16024/5 (4) Fry, Varian M., 1941-1944.
• bMS 16024/5 (5) Gano, Seth, 1944.
• bMS 16024/5 (6) Gano, Seth, 1944-1945.
• bMS 16024/5 (7) Gano, Seth, 1946.
• bMS 16024/5 (8) Gano, Seth, 1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (9) Gano, Seth, 1950.
• bMS 16024/5 (10) Germany. Publicity for relief operations, 1946-1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (11) Haspl, Kavel, 1948.
• bMS 16024/5 (12) Hata, Mari. Speaking engagements, 1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (13) Hitschmanova, Lotta, 1946-1947.
• bMS 16024/5 (14) Hitschmanova, Lotta. Europe, 1948.
• bMS 16024/5 (15) Hitschmanova, Lotta, 1949-1950.
• bMS 16024/5 (16) Hitschmanova, Lotta, 1950-1951.
• bMS 16024/5 (17) Holt, Dr. Evelyn. UNRRA, 1945.
• bMS 16024/6 (1) Hooper, Mrs. Harry, 1949.
• bMS 16024/6 (2) Hooper, Mrs. Harry, 1950.
• bMS 16024/6 (3) Hungary. Ivanyi Field, 1947.
• bMS 16024/6 (4) International education reconstruction.
• bMS 16024/6 (5) International youth work projects.
• bMS 16024/6 (6) Jones, Dorothea, 1947.
• bMS 16024/6 (7) Joy, Charles, 1942.
• bMS 16024/6 (8) Joy, Charles. Dexter controversy, 1943.
• bMS 16024/6 (9) Joy, Charles. Personal, 1943-1944.
• bMS 16024/6 (10) Joy, Charles. Personal, 1944-1945.
• bMS 16024/6 (11) Joy, Charles, 1945.
• bMS 16024/6 (12) Joy, Charles. Cables, 1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (1) Joy, Charles. Overseas correspondence and reports, 1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (2) Joy, Charles. Overseas correspondence and reports, 1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (3) Joy, Charles. Reports, 1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (4) Loyal Americans of German Descent, Franz Schoenberner, ca. 1941.
• bMS 16024/7 (5) Miller, Persis, 1953.
• bMS 16024/7 (6) Miller, Persis. Correspondence, 1953.
• bMS 16024/7 (7) Personnel, 1944.
• bMS 16024/7 (8) Personnel, 1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (9) Personnel, 1946.
• bMS 16024/7 (10) Personnel. Applications for employment to USC, 1947-1948.
• bMS 16024/7 (11) Personnel. Applications for employment to USC, 1947-1948.
• bMS 16024/7 (12) Personnel, 1949.
• bMS 16024/7 (13) Spain, 1942-1945.
• bMS 16024/7 (14) World Service material (tributes to the work of the USC).

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