Thus, despite Gemma's intimate connection with a powerful American politician, who was then director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ), it took two years to be cleared and sent to the United States.

LaGuardia was the director general for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) in 1946.

Already in 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) was founded to provide relief to areas liberated from Germany.

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) was an international relief agency, largely dominated by the United States but representing 44 nations.

UNRRA was headed by a Director-General, and governed by a Council ( composed of representatives of all state parties ) with a Central Committee representing the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union.

Although the UNRRA was called a " United Nations " agency, it was established prior to the founding of the United Nations.

UNRRA Headquarters was in Washington, D. C., and the European Regional Office was set up in London.

Hitchcock 2008 concludes that UNRRA was not perfect, for it was troubled by inefficiency, poor planning, shortages of supplies, and some incompetent personnel.

The camp was supervised by the UNRRA.

The United Nations Refugee Relief Administration ( UNRRA ) was established to help them and assist in their resettlement.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of UNRRA in 1946 and held senior posts in the International Monetary Fund and other international organisations in 1946 and 1981.

Landeck was also the site of a UNRRA displaced person camp in the French sector of Allied-occupied Austria.

Though he enrolled in a law degree at UNRRA University, he was sent to a displaced persons camp, and subsequently migrated to Tasmania in 1948.

In 1945-47 Li was named Deputy Director-General of the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( CNRRA ) in Shanghai, to work with the United Nations ( UNRRA ) in managing the postwar relief and recovery effort in China.

The camp enjoyed the confidence and support of the UNRRA, and was accordingly permitted to print its own bank notes.

Towards the end of World War II, there was a UNRRA refugee camp at Philippeville which was known as Camp Jeanne d ' Arc.

After the war, Morgan served as Chief of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) in Germany until his position in Germany was eliminated following publication of " off the record " comments concerning incompetence and corruption within UNRRA, including diverting the resources of UNRRA to the support of Zionist ambitions to further political ambitions.

* UNRRA Archives are held at the United Nations Archives

* A popular photograph collection at the UN Archives documents the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ). The collection consists of 3, 530 black and white photographs covering UNRRA activities in 28 countries across six continents. XML Document

By chance, she begins working for Mrs. Murray at the same UNRRA camp where her son had been processed.

She is also the author of Wild Place, a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons ( DP ) camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after WWII.

From 1946, he worked for UNRRA at its Shanghai office.

Events in the British – Zionist conflict in the British Mandate for Palestine made Morgan feel conflicted between his role in assisting Jewish refugees at UNRRA, whom he regarded as special victims of the Nazis for being persecuted solely for their race, and supporting British policy as a British Army officer.

With his military background, Morgan was appalled at the corruption, inefficiency and political diversion of UNRRA.

Samuel Jacob Rodman ( born c. 1898, date of death unknown ), an American double-agent during World War II, was employed by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) and spied for the Soviet Union at the same time.

* The Search ( Director: Fred Zinnemann, Starring: Montgomery Clift ) 1948 Filmed in post-war Berlin: A story which brings to life UNRRA work in 1945 Germany.

Ruth Rivkin was an American who worked for the predecessor agency which later became the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) during World War II.

A pen portrait of the situation facing the town in mid 20th century appears in Francesca M. Wilson's book Aftermath in which she describes her work with UNRRA in 1946, a year after the end of the Second World War.

Trains bring homeless children ( Displaced Persons or DPs ), who are taken by Mrs. Murray ( Aline MacMahon ) and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) workers to a nearby transit camp, where they are fed and cared for.

Allegations of fraud or corruption in UNRRA were rare, but there were allegations of misappropriation of the aid by the Kuomintang ( Chinese Nationalist Party ) ( see Formosa Betrayed ).

The next morning, the children are interviewed by UNRRA officials to try to identify them and reunite them if possible with their families.

Supplementing the relief supplied by the army, by UNRRA, and by UNRRA ’ s successor agency — the International Refugee Organization — JDC distributed emergency aid, but also fed the educational and cultural needs of the displaced, providing typewriters, books, Torah scrolls, ritual articles, and holiday provisions.

An attempt to clarify his position " off the record " failed, and Morgan's position in Germany was eliminated by UNRRA Director Fiorello La Guardia.

In the wake of the destruction caused by the Second World War, the historical peace churches in the United States ( Church of the Brethren, the Society of Friends or " Quakers ," and the Mennonites ) sponsored relief missions to war-ravaged Europe, typically in cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ).

This camp was led by a member of the UNRRA and had the number 701A.

They were used by the UNRRA, and the Marshall Plan in the rebuilding of Western Europe after the Second World War, and today remain a common technique for delivering developmental assistance.

UNRRA provided billions of dollars of rehabilitation aid, and helped about 8 million refugees.

UNRRA cooperated closely with dozens of volunteer charitable organizations, who sent hundreds of their own agencies to work alongside UNRRA.

UNRRA operated in occupied Germany, primarily in camps for Displaced Persons, especially the 11, 000, 000 non-Germans who had been moved into Germany during the war, but did not render assistance to ethnic Germans.

The largest recipients of UNRRA commodity aid, in millions of US dollars were China, $ 518 ; Poland -- $ 478 ; Italy --$ 418 ; Yugoslavia -- $ 416 ; Greece -- $ 347 ; Czechoslovakia -- $ 261 ; Ukraine ( USSR ) -- $ 188 ; and Austria -- $ 136.

" The Origins of UNRRA ," Political Science Quarterly Vol.

"' We Shall Rebuild Anew a Powerful Nation ': UNRRA, Internationalism and National Reconstruction in Poland ," Journal of Contemporary History, July 2008, Vol.

In 1943, the Allies created the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) to provide aid to areas liberated from Axis powers, including parts of Europe and China.