Joseph P. D'Andrea WWII refugee resettlement papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Joseph P. D'Andrea WWII refugee resettlement papers
- Date
- 1936-2017 (inclusive)
- 1936-1951 (bulk)
- Creator
- D'Andrea, Joseph P., 1912-2001
- Extent
- 0.25 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Europe
- Concentration camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish children
- Jewish diaspora
- Jewish refugees
- Jews -- Migrations
- Nutrition
- Refugee camps
- Refugees -- Europe
- Refugees -- Housing
- Refugees -- International cooperation
- Resettlement.
- Social workers
- War refugees
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject.
- Preferred Citation
- 2017ms002: [identification of item], Joseph P. D'Andrea WWII refugee resettlement papers, 1936-2017, bulk 1936-1951, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Joseph P. D'Andrea was born September 26, 1912 in Patton, Pennsylvania. As one of the first welfare officers to arrive in Europe after World War II, Joseph P. D'Andrea directed relief efforts for the tens of thousands of displaced persons and political refugees living in camps following the war. From 1945 to 1947 he served as Principal Welfare Officer for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the U.S. zone of Austria. When the International Relief Organization (IRO) replaced UNRRA in 1947, he was appointed as Chief of Welfare, Care and Maintenance for Land Upper Austria. From 1950 to 1952 he served as Austria IRO Headquarters Officer for installations, housing, chronic sick amd rehabilitation.
- By 1952, as most of the refugees had immigrated and established new lives in other countries, D'Andrea returned to the United States, operating first a family retail business and then returning to social work until his retirement. He died in Pennsylvania on August 23, 2001.
- Scope and Content
- The Joseph P. D'Andrea WWII refugee resettlement papers(dated 1936-2017, bulk 1936-1951; 0.25 cubic feet; 1 box) comprises records and publications related to D'Andrea's work as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) social worker in Austria after WWII.
- The first portion of the collection contains biographical materials about D'Andrea, such as letters of recommendation and his resume. There are also printed pages, possibly written by D'Andrea or the UNRRA, that describe the conditions of Jews during and after WWII in Austria, as well as a summary that describes the political conditons in Austria post-WWII and the attitudes of native Austrians towards the displaced people in their country following the war. The second part of the collection are records of D'Andrea's work with the UNRRA, and contain information about rations and diets for different groups of displaced persons. There are also monthly operational reports from August 1951, containing data from various cities in the U.S. zone of Austria; each report includes numbers and countries to which refugees were being resettled or repatriated. Also in the collection are German language publications, presumably used by D'Andrea during his time in Europe.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Joseph P. D'Andrea biographical materials, 1951-2017
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration records, 1951
Deutsche Sprachlehre fuer Auslaender (German language study for foreigners) by Hans Schulz and Wilhelm Sundermeyer; published by Deutschen Instituts fuer Foreigners an der Universitaet Berlin, 1936
Vom Bild zum Wort (From image to word, German language learning book) by Leo Kober; Universum Verlagsges, m.b.H., Wien, 1946, 1946
The Story of the UNRRA pamphlet, 1948
SOS A Call from 100,000 of Your Neighbors in Distress pamphlet by the International Refugee Organization, 1950
The Facts About Refugees pamphlet by the International Refugee Organization, 1948
Problems of Aliyah and Absorption by J. Raphael, address delivered at the tenth Convention of the Hapael Hamizrachi, 1949
Israel 2 magazine, 1950
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