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

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.