Register of the Margaret Eleanor Fait papers

Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

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Title: Margaret Eleanor Fait papers

Date (inclusive): 1945-1946

Collection Number: 84040

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes, 18 envelopes (3.9 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Reports, dispatches, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to relief aid to displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, and to Jewish refugees in transit to Palestine.

Creator: Fait, Margaret Eleanor

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1984.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Margaret Eleanor Fait Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical / Historical

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration public relations officer, United States Zone, Germany, 1945-1946.

Scope and Contents

Reports, dispatches, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to relief aid to displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, and to Jewish refugees in transit to Palestine.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany

Refugees

International relief

World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief

Jews

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

SUBJECT FILE 1945-1946

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, bulletins, studies, questionnaires, printed matter and photographs, collected by M. E. Fait as Public Relations Officer, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, U.S. Zone, Germany, 1945-46.

box 1, folder 1

Aley, A., "U.N.R.R.A. - Nothing But the Truth," September 16, 1945

box 1, folder 2

Allied Expeditionary Force, Displaced Persons Registration Instructions June 1944

box 1, folder 3

American Council for Judaism

box 1, folder 4

American Red Cross activities in Western Europe 1944-47

box 1, folder 5

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Report to the U.S. Government and His Majesty's Government in the U.K., Lausanne, Switzerland April 20, 1946

box 1, folder 6

Buchenwald concentration camp

Displaced persons

box 1, folder 7

General

box 1, folder 8-9

Children

box 1, folder 10

Education

box 1, folder 11

Emigration

box 1, folder 12

Expellees

box 1, folder 13

Food

box 1, folder 14

Jews

box 2, folder 1-3

Jews

box 2, folder 4

Jewish children sent to Palestine

box 2, folder 5

Latvians

box 2, folder 6

Law and order

box 2, folder 7

Mennonite controversy

box 2, folder 8

Poles

box 2, folder 9

Polish repatriation efforts

box 2, folder 10

Postwar developments

box 2, folder 11

Questionnaires upon which the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Report was based 1946

box 3, folder 1-5

Questionnaires upon which the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Report was based 1946

box 4, folder 1

Russians

box 4, folder 2

Screening

box 4, folder 3

Tracing services

box 4, folder 4

Van Velsen, A. F.

box 4, folder 5

Displaced Persons Commission, Second Semiannual Report to the President and Congress August 1, 1949

box 4, folder 6

Displaced Persons Operation, U.S. Zone, Germany, Summary Report 6/11/45

box 4, folder 7

Fye, Colonel

box 4, folder 8

Germany, postwar conditions

box 4, folder 9

Latvia

box 4, folder 10

Meader, George, excerpt from Confidential Report to the Special Senate Committee Investigating the National Defense Program on the Preliminary Investigation of Military Government in Occupied Areas of Europe 22 November 1946

Office of Military Government for Germany (US)

box 4, folder 11

General

box 4, folder 12

Economics Division, "A Year of Potsdam - The German Economy Since the Surrender," n.d.

Supreme Headquarters. Allied Expeditionary Force.

Civil Affairs Division, Guide to Assembly Center Administration

box 4, folder 13

Displaced Persons Branch July 1944

box 4, folder 14

Displaced Persons, Refugees, and Welfare Branch, revised September 1944

box 4, folder 15

Guide to the Care of Displaced Persons in Germany May 1945

box 4, folder 16

Transfer of German population from Czechoslovakia to the U.S. Zone, Germany 1945-46

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

box 4, folder 17

Agreement as to the Relationship of UNRRA to the Commanding General USFET in the U.S. Zone of Germany 19 February 1946

box 4, folder 18

Basic Field Manual, Part II, Personnel Policy and Procedure 3 January 1946

Central Headquarters for Germany

box 4, folder 19

Public Information Office

box 4, folder 20

Weekly situation reports November-December 1945

box 5, folder 1

Committee of the Council for Europe

box 5, folder 2

Displaced persons camps, map of

box 5, folder 3

Displaced Persons Division, Handbook on Procedure for Registration of Displaced Persons n.d.

Displaced Persons Operation in Germany

box 5, folder 4

General

box 5, folder 5

December holidays

box 5, folder 6

Weekly report June 10-16, 1945

European Regional Office

box 5, folder 7

General

box 5, folder 8

Personnel Field Regulations December 10, 1945

German Operations

box 5, folder 9

1945

box 5, folder 10

Public Information Section

box 5, folder 11

Grigsby, Robert, Team 55, "Applied Economics for Displaced Persons," n.d.

box 5, folder 12

Statement by Director Herbert H. Lehman

box 5, folder 13

Team 303, Welfare Section

box 5, folder 14

Team 502, Stuttgart

box 5, folder 15

Team reports 1945

box 5, folder 16

United Nations Displaced Persons Operation, American Occupied Territory, Germany

box 5, folder 17

UNRRA - Organization, Aims, Progress 1944

U.S. Zone Headquarters, Wiesbaden

box 5, folder 18

General

box 5, folder 19

Polish children 1945

box 5, folder 20

Public Relations Office

box 5, folder 21

Team bulletins 1945

box 5, folder 22

Ukrainian theatrical group

box 5, folder 23

Miscellaneous

U.S. Forces, European Theater Headquarters

box 5, folder 24

Nationalities, determination and reporting of 1945

box 5, folder 25

Office of Military Government (U.S. Zone), Displaced Persons Division

box 5, folder 26

Postal service between DPs in the U.S. Zone and the United States 1945

box 5, folder 27

Procedure for care of United Nations displaced persons August 31, 1945

box 5, folder 28

Public Relations Division 1945-46

box 5, folder 29

UNRRA in the U.S. Zone, Meade Committee Report 1946

box 5, folder 30

United States War Department, Basic Field Manual - Military Government

box 5, folder 31

World's YMCA-YWCA, "Two Years With Displaced Persons," n.d.

PHOTOGRAPHS

envelope A

15 photos depicting children in displaced persons (DP) camps. Germany. undated

envelope B

34 photos depicting Aglasterhausen DP camp in Germany. undated

envelope C

31 photos depicting employment projects in DP camps in Germany. undated

envelope D

26 photos depicting education in DP camps in Germany undated

envelope E

12 photos depicting medical attention in DP camps, Germany undated

envelope F-G

49 photos depicting living conditions in DP camps, Germany. undated

envelope H

5 photos depicting administration of DP camps, Germany. undated

envelope I-J

39 photos depicting arts and crafts in DP camps, Germany. undated

envelope K

10 prints depicting a textbook project for DP camp schools, Germany. undated

envelope L

16 prints depicting DPs as students at Heidelberg University, Germany. undated

envelope M

16 prints depicting religious activities in DP camps, Germany. undated

envelope N

7 prints depicting the shipment of Jews to Palestine from DP camps, Germany. undated

envelope O

16 prints depicting Poles returning to Poland from DP camps in Germany. undated

envelope P

17 prints depicting United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) activities in Poland after World War II. undated

envelope Q

11 prints depicting UNRRA agricultural projects in Poland after World War II. undated

envelope R

3 prints depicting scenes of World War II destruction in Wiesbaden, Germany. undated