Relief Work materials in Haverford College Special Collections (HC)

Douglas Steere helped to organize Quaker relief efforts in Finland, Norway and Poland after World War II, and throughout the 1940s to 1960s the Steeres traveled under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee to oversee relief work around the world.

Katharine and Howard Ekington worked with the AFSC in Germany in 1938-1940 at the Berlin office. They helped a number of Jewish women to resettle in Australia.
Theodora and Thomas Waring went to Finland in 1947 to do relief work there; they worked with refugees and built houses.

White was an AFSC administrator during and after World War II. Materials in the collection include administrative documents and reports from various relief efforrs.

Huntington worked on the foreign staff of the AFSC 1945-1949 in France, Hungary, Germany, and Italy, and was the Commissioner in Europe 1947-1949.

Cary served as head of American Quaker Relief Operations in Europe from 1946 to 1948, during which time he oversaw post-war relief operations in ten countries.

Dan Wilson's experiences as a staff person for the American Friends Service Committee in relief projects following world War II.

Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, went to Germany in 1919 under the aegis of the American Friends Service Committee to work in child feeding. In 1925, he arranged the first peace conference between Poland and Germany, again under the auspices of the A.F.S.C. During the 1930s, MacMaster was active on behalf of Germans in prison and Jews in concentration camps. In 1946, he organized sending food parcels to Germany for Quakers and others.

Wood was a member of the International Rescue Committee in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Materials in this section include a “resettlement campaign for exiled professionals” and other attempts to resettle people from communist countries.

Emma Cadbury Jr. worked at the AFSC Friends Center in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued to collect materials relating to conditions in Europe and the war even after she left Vienna.

Clarence Pickett was the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1929 to 1950.

Single volume scrapbook of Josiah P. Marvel, which includes Nazi documents, such as certificates and letters, from Marvel's time in occupied France during the summer of 1940 while working with American Friends Service Committee.

Gilbert and Minnie Bowles had worked in Japan prior to World War II, and they returned to Japan and worked with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) on relief projects in Japan and Korea.

Howard Brinton was the representative of the American Friends Service Committee in Japan from 1952-1954. Anna Cox Brinton was appointed the AFSC Commissioner for Asia in 1948. The Brintons lived in Japan during the early 1950s.

Esther Rhoads was the head of the Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for more than fifty years and worked with the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia. Included in the collection are many letters on Japanese education, relief efforts after World War II, and information on Quakerism in Japan.

Rich traveled to China and India in 1943 with the AFSC.

The Bowles were Quaker missionaries in Japan before World War I, and in 1941 they moved to Hawaii to work with imprisoned Japanese-Americans.

Esther Rhoads was the head of the Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for more than fifty years, both before and after World War II. From 1942-1945 she worked with Japanese-Americans in California.

This collection is comprised of the papers of Herbert Nicholson. It includes sections of a manuscript, possibly "Valiant Odyssey: Herbert Nicholson in and out of America's concentration camps," letters to Herbert Nicholson from individuals he met in Japan, some thanking him for his efforts to aid Japanese-Americans in the U.S. after World War II began.

This collection is comprised of the single volume memoir by George L. Townsend, entitled "Service of the War Relocation Authority." The manuscript describes Townsend's recruitment by and work with the War Relocation Authority, a civilian agency established to provide care and services for Japanese Americans moved to Army Relocation Centers.

Haverford College's Relief and Reconstruction program was established in early 1943 to provide training to students interested in relief and rehabilitation work in Europe during World War II. Directed by Douglas Steere, the program offered both undergraduate and graduate coursework and was open to male and female students. Many of the male undergraduate students were religious conscientious objectors. This collection includes reports and announcements, application materials, correspondence, student work, instructional materials, survey responses, and newsletters.

Lois Virginia Stanton (née Plumb) earned her master's in Relief and Rehabilitation through Haverford College's Relief and Reconstruction program. In this typescript, she describes her experiences training to perform relief work at Haverford and travelling to Europe with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) between 1945 and 1947.