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The Welfare Divisions of UNRRA was organized in Feb. 1944. Its internal organization at this time consisted of an Administrative Branch and a Research and Planning Branch. At the same time there was established a Displaced Persons Division.
On 3 May 1945, the functional Divisions of Welfare, Health and Displaced Persons, originally responsible directly to the Director General, were transferred to the Bureau of Services. At the same time the functions of the Camps Division of the Bureau of Areas were transferred to the Displaced Persons Division and the Welfare Division in ERO was abolished. On 13 April 1946, the Welfare Division merged with the Displaced Persons Division to form the Division of Repatriation and Welfare, which included 3 branches: the Reports and Records Branch, the Program Planning Branch, and the Operations Branch. Myer Cohen became the Director of this newly formed Division. In Sept. 1946 the Division was shorn of its welfare functions and became the Division of Repatriation; in Dec. 1946 it was merged with the Bureau of Services.
At various times, the welfare and displaced persons functions included the following:
Provided the basic necessities of life during emergency periods, including temporary mass feeding, temporary shelter, and direct distribution of supplies.
Ensured simple and fair procedures for determining which individuals and families were entitled to receive free supplies and services; ensured that the methods of distribution provided ready access to the supplies and services for all those who were entitled to receive them.
Organized special relief and rehabilitational services for individuals, families or groups who required particular types of assistance. Such services included day nurseries, foster home placement, institutional care and services, individual or family counseling, occupational training etc.
Reviewed requests for and made recommendations concerning supplies, equipment, and other facilities needed to carry out the functions listed above.
Coordinated and regulated the activities of voluntary organizations interested in carrying out relief and rehabilitation programs overseas, in so far as these responsibilities had been delegated to the Administration by member governments.
Reviewed camp management operations and provided technical advice on the management of camps; determined supply requirements of camps and policies affecting camps.
Arranged for the identification and registration of displaced persons, and for their care and repatriation or return to place of former residence.

Photographs
S-1167 · Series · 1940 - 1954
Part of United Nations Information Organisation (UNIO) (1940-1945)

Contains B&W photographic prints and negatives generated by the UNIO documenting the activities of the Allied Forces and Axis Powers. The goal of the UNIO was to: provide information, and facilities for distribution of information, through the press, radio, film, exhibitions and other media on the United Nations, their common aims, interests and joint activities; the peoples of the United Nations, showing their fundamental unity and interdependence, their comparative activities, backgrounds, etc.

In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Central Committee on 8 April 1948, the office of Director-General of UNRRA was abolished effective 30 September 1948 and was replaced by the new office of the Administrator for Liquidation. The Controller of UNRRA was appointed to the post and assumed responsibility for administering the remaining organization and for closing its accounts and liquidating its affairs. He served until 31 March 1949, at which time all remaining functions were turned over to the United Nations as provided in an agreement between the two organizations approved by the General Assembly in October 1948 (Doc. A/665, 6 October 1948).

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)/Germany Mission: United States Zone (Pasing), Area Teams

Series consists of directives, weekly, monthly, team, military inspection, inventory and health reports, nominal rolls, personnel materials (lists, evaluations and assignments), photographs, newspapers, displaced person publications, textbooks, tracing lists, organizational charts, correspondence, and memoranda. Special emphasis is placed on Area Team 1046 (Regensburg), Team 120 (Regensburg), Team 717 (Bettenhausen), Area Team 1069 (Rosenheim), and Area Team 1070 (Bad Reichenhall). Subjects include team histories; camp publications; rations; inspections; displaced person schools; camp incidents; team deactivation; and screening. Correspondents include A. T. Berney-Ficklin, District Director; R. J. Blackmore, Field Supervisor; H. C. Bergstrom, Field Supervisor; R. D. Metzger, Field Supervisor; J. H. Whiting, Director, U.S. Zone; R. W. Collins, Chief of Field Operations; Helen Zilka, Chief, Field Operations; C. J. Taylor, Chief, Field Operations; Meyer Cohen, Chief of Operations, Germany.

Novak

Photographs and Records
S-0526 · Series · 1941 - 1964
Part of United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) (1950-1958)

The United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) was established in 1950 in order to undertake relief and rehabilitation programs in Korea. It ceased operating in 1959, and liquidation was completed in 1960.

Records include registry files, 1950-1960, containing correspondence, memos, reports, and many other types of documents concerning all aspects of the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency; also project files, 1952-1960, containing correspondence, project agreements, lists of required supplies generated by UNKRA's establishment of projects in the areas of food and agriculture, rural resettlement, transportation, communications, education, health, sanitation and welfare, natural resources, housing, technical assistance, and other projects.
Also included are files concerning personnel, finances, and other matters having to do with the administration of UNKRA, 1951-1960, and containing correspondence, legal documents, minutes, accounts, and photographs.
Historical files, 1951-1960, were assembled in order to write a history of UNKRA, and contain examples of the types of documents mentioned, as well as drafts of a history of UNKRA.

It contains PAG-4/3.0, subseries (3.0) Registry Files; (2) Project Files; (3.1) General Administration Non-Registry Files; (3.2) General Administration Photos; (4) Personnel Office Non-Registry Files; (4.1) Finance Office Non-Registry Files; (4.2) Finance Office Ledgers; (5) Historical Files.

S-0926 · Series · 1941 - 1947
Part of United Nations Temporary London Office (1946)

Series consists of incoming and outgoing cable exchanges with United Nations New York, of "Information Circulars" which were issued by the Executive Director for the staff of the Temporary London Office (Mar. to Oct. 1946), and two additional files, one of them containing the floor plans of the Church House facility (dated 1941). Arranged in the order cited, and therein chronologically.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)/Germany Mission: United States Zone (Pasing), Department of Field Operations

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, cables, directives, administrative orders, standard operating procedures (SOP), meeting minutes, organizational charts, samples of forms, population and supplies statistics, and reports including periodic statistical and narrative reports and reports from camps and teams. Subjects include: administrative matters; closure; displaced persons including material on teams and camps, children, racial, repatriation, resettlement, tracing and screening.

Bary

Working Files

United Nations Commission for Investigation of Greek Frontier Incidents: Working Files of Stanley Ryan, Press Officer of the Commission

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, incoming and outgoing cables, photographs, press clippings, press releases, information circulars, and booklets. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: Security Council resolutions; draft CommitteeTwo; travel and movement plans; appeals and proclaimations; incidents along Greek border; work in S Alonika; report of the Allied Mission to Observe the Greek elections; press accreditation and other problems. Correspondents include Colonel A. Roscher Lund, Principal Secretary of UNO Investigation Commission; Alexis Kyrou, Greek Liason Representative; Trygve Lie, Secretary General, UN Headquarters; A. Loveday; and Stanley Ryan, Press Officer.

S-1057 · Series · 1941 - 1965
Part of United Nations Office for Special Political Affairs (1955-1991)

Series documents United Nations conferences that relate to non-aggressive uses of scientific knowledge and atomic energy. The majority of files pertain to the organization and carrying out of the First United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1955), the Second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1958), and the Third United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (1964). ICPUAE documents include correspondence, reports, programs, handbooks, verbatim records of sessions, bound volumes of conference proceedings and press briefings. Also included are records pertaining to the final Conference on the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1956), as well as records pertaining to the IAEA's establishment as an independent organization. A few subject files of the Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation are included. Correspondence, working papers and reports of the United Nations Scientific Advisory Committee and of the Conference on the Application of Science and Technology (1961) are also included (documents of the latter include photographs). The series also contains records of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, the Collective Measures Committee and the Additional Measures Committee.