Register of the Aleta Brownlee papers

Finding aid prepared by Keith A. Jantzen.

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

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Title: Aleta Brownlee papers

Date (inclusive): 1945-1950

Collection Number: 69059

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 9 manuscript boxes (3.8 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Memoirs and office files, relating to UNRRA and IRO relief work for displaced children in Austria at the end of World War II.

Creator: Brownlee, Aleta

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

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1969.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Aleta Brownlee Papers , [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical History.

Aleta Brownlee began her employment with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration as a Welfare Specialist on the Yugoslavian Mission in 1945. Later that year she was transferred to Vienna and promoted to Director of Child Welfare in Austria. In that position, both with UNRRA and with the International Refugee Organization (which superceded UNRRA in 1947), she worked with displaced children. The Child Welfare Agency had the responsibility of locating and reestablishing, either through repatriation or resettlement, children who had been moved from their homelands during the war. Ms. Brownlee continued this work until 1950 when the International Refugee Organization ceased its activities.

The collection consists almost exclusively of UNRAA and IRO documents. Of these, a small number relate to the Welfare Program in Yugoslavia directly after the war. The overwhelming majority of documents, however, concerns the location and reestablishment of orphans and children separated from their parents. Approximately 35% of the collection is comprised of case files, complete with the children's histories and their eventual placement. Occasionally there is follow-up correspondence from the children. The remainder of the UNRRA and IRO documents concern the problems of finding children absorbed by the Third Reich and what should be done with them once found. The correspondence, memoranda and transcripts of meetings relating to the specific problems of Polish, Yugoslavian and Russian refugees are the most complete. Included in the collection is documentation relating to the roles played by various national chapters of the Red Cross and by the French, American, British and Soviet military governments. Considered all together, the UNRRA and IRO documents chronicle both the operations and the results of the Child Welfare Program in Austria from 1945 to 1950.

Also included in the collection is a manuscript, "Whose Children?," written by Aleta Brownlee ca. 1950-1951 concerning her experiences with UNRRA and IRO. In addition there is a very small miscellany file.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees

International relief

World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief

World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria

World War, 1939-1945 -- Children

Child welfare -- Austria

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

International Refugee Organization

OFFICE FILE 1945-1950

Scope and Contents

Memoranda, reports, correspondence, interview transcripts, etc. pertaining to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's welfare mission in Yugoslavia and the International Refugee Organization, arranged alphabetically by subject.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration -Welfare

Displaced Persons Program

box 1

Letters, reports, memoranda and interviews, 1945-1946, compiled by A. Brownlee. Includes calendar of documents (3)

box 1

Yugoslavian Mission, 1945

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration/International Refugee Organization

box 1

Displaced Persons

Children

box 1

Argentinian, 1946

box 1

Austrian, 1946-1949

box 1

Belgian, 1946-1949

Case loads, analyses of monthly reports

box 1

June 1949-December 1949

box 1

January 1950-June 1950

Cases

box 1

Fragmentary

box 1

"A"

box 2

"B" (5)

box 2

"C"

box 2

"D" (2)

box 3

"E"

box 3

"F" (2)

box 3

"G" (2)

box 3

"H" (2)

box 3

"J"

box 3

"K"

box 3

"L"

box 4

"M" (2)

box 4

"N"

box 4

"P" (2)

box 4

"R"

box 4

"S" (3)

box 4

"T"

box 4

"U"

box 4

"V"

box 5

"W"

box 5

"Z"

box 5

"Child Welfare in the Displaced Persons Programme." Report, 1947

box 5

Children receiving assistance, 1947-1950

box 5

Correspondence, 1946-1950

box 5

Czechoslovakian, 1946-1949

box 5

Danish, 1946

box 5

Dutch, 1946-1948

box 5

Ethnic German ( Volksdeutsche), 1945-1949

box 5

German, 1946-1948

box 5

Greek, 1947-1948

box 5

Hungarian, 1946-1950

box 5

Italian, 1947-1948

box 5

Jewish, 1946-1949

box 5

Legal status, 1947-1949

box 5

"List of Children Repatriated, Resettled, or Otherwise Reestablished by UNRRA or IRO, 1946-1950." Report, 1951

box 5

Non-Austrians living in Austria, 1946-1950

Policy

box 5

General, 1946-1949

Adoption

box 6

Undated, 1945

box 6

1946

box 6

1947

box 6

1948

box 6

1949

box 6

1950

box 6

Eligibility, 1946-1950

box 6

Procedures, 1946-1948

box 6

Repatriation, 1946-1950

box 6

Resettlement, 1947-1949

box 6

Standards of care, 1946-1949

Polish

box 6

Undated

box 6

1945

box 6

1946

box 6

1947

box 6

1948

1949

box 6

"Master List of Polish Children Processed by Lebensborn and Heimschule in terms of Directive 67/I compiled by the Documents and Intelligence Section of I.T.S., Child Search Branch," April 1949

box 6

1950

box 6

Polish Ukrainians, 1946-1947

box 6

Resettlement

box 6

General, 1946-1950

box 6

Australia, 1949-1950

box 6

Canada, 1947-1950

box 6

Chile, 1948

box 7

France, 1948

box 7

Great Britain, 1947-1949

box 7

Handicapped, 1948-1950

box 7

New Zealand, 1949

box 7

Paraguay, 1946-1948

box 7

Sweden, 1948-1950

box 7

Transportation, 1948-1949

box 7

United States

box 7

Undated

box 7

1946

box 7

1947

box 7

1948

box 7

1949

box 7

1950

box 7

Rumanian, 1946-1949

Russian

box 7

Undated

box 7

1946

box 7

1947

box 7

1948

box 7

1949

box 7

1950

Tracing

box 7

Undated

box 7

1946

box 7

1947

box 7

1948

box 8

1949

box 8

"Lebensborn Report - An Outline of the Structure and Practices of Lebensborn for Guidance in Child Search," 1948

box 8

"Nazional-Sozialistische Volkswohlfahrt" (National Socialist Welfare Agency) Copies and translations of official NSDAP documents relating to the appropriation of foreign children as German citizes, 1938-1944

box 8

"S.S. Lebensborn Activities in Upper Austria," by Wilhelmina Van Dop, ca. 1947

box 8

Turkish, 1947

box 8

"UNRRA Closure Report on United Nations Unaccompanied Children in Germany," June, 1947

Yugoslavian

box 8

Undated

box 8

1945

box 8

1946

box 8

1947

box 8

1948

box 8

1949

box 8

1950

box 8

Miscellaneous, 1946-1950

box 8

Citizenship, Austrian, 1945-1950

box 8

Policy - General, 1946-1950

box 8

"Psychological Problems of Displaced Persons." Report, 1945

Operations

American Zone

Children's Home

box 8

Undated

box 8

1946

box 9

1947

box 9

1949

box 9

1950

box 9

Youth Center, 1948-1950

British Zone

box 9

General, 1946-1948

Children's Home

box 9

Undated

box 9

1945

box 9

1946

box 9

1947

box 9

1948

box 9

1949

box 9

1950

box 9

French Zone - General, 1946-1948

box 9

Vienna - General, 1946, 1950

box 9

Personnel, 1945-1948

WRITINGS 1950-1951

box 9

"Whose Children?" typescript circa 1950-1951

MISCELLANY 1950-1952

box 9

Comic book, Czechoslovakian, circa 1950, and printed articles