The collection includes the original manuscript of "Surrender on Demand", Mr. Fry's account of his wartime experiences, which was later rewritten for young readers as "Assignment Rescue" (New York, Four Winds Press, 1968). Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, J. Edgar Hoover, and Herman Wouk. In addition to the material relating to the Emergency Relief Committee (later known as the International Rescue Committee), the collection includes correspondence and papers concerning Fry's work as a writer on foreign affairs as well as copies of his books.
[On microfilm MN#2000-2029]
Series V is comprised of a wide range of documents on refugee issues, including discussions of visa requirements; letters from groups seeking to help particular groups of refugees (such as children or Spanish refugees); and correspondence on technical problems, such as transportation issues. Files are arranged alphabetically by name or topic.
This subseries is comprised of newspaper articles about Poletti's actions as chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Political Refugees. Clippings are arranged chronologically.
Hectograph copy of typescript of "Plight of the Russian Refugees in Germany", by O. V. Anisimov; and mimeograph copy of typescript of "Otchet Gamburskogo komiteta po delam bezhentsev."
The reports and correspondence relating to UNRRA were arranged according to the nine administrative divisions of that organization that generated the documents: Bureau of Administration (26 reels); Office of the Diplomatic Adviser (4 reels); Office of the Director General (20 reels); Office of the Economic Adviser (4 reels); Office of Far Eastern Affairs (9 reels); Office of the General Counsel (19 reels); Office of the Historian (16 reels); Office of Public Information (1 reel); and Secretariat Executive Office (3 reels). Within each division, subsidiary bodies are typically separated into subject and country files.
Mi︠a︡kin's memoirs discuss his journalistic career; acquaintances, including the Suvorins and the actress Nadezhda Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡; the Civil War; the emigration, including the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Yugoslavia; horse racing in Russia; and his experiences as a displaced person in Austria after World War II.
Papers include manuscripts, subject files, protocols of the Association's general meetings (1946-50), and for meetings of its board (1946-50), and printed materials.
Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files, and printed materials. Much of the correspondence and other materials relate to the United Committee to Aid Russians in Europe, which helped displaced persons; Kapat︠s︡inskiĭ chaired this body. Other materials concern the Russkoe Obʺedinennoe Obshchestvo Vzaimopomoshchi v Amerike (Russian Consolidated Mutual Aid Society of America -- ROOVA). Cataloged materials consist of 2 letters by Sofii︠a︡ Panina and 1 by Igor ́Sikorskiĭ.
Typescript copy of Glasse's diary which deals with the interwar USSR, World War II, his emigration to western Europe during the war and his life there afterwards.
Current results range from 1838 to 2010