Poland exports her coal
coal, Reconstruction of Poland, shipping, industry
The greatest export in the years immediately after World War II in Poland was coal. Ships leave for various European destinations from the ports of Gdansk, Gdynia, and Szczecin.
Alex Chen
Poland of Today, December 1946 Issue. p. 14
1946
Photograph
Saving the Future in Europe
Unitarian Service Committee, Relief work
This is the cover of a publicity pamphlet, most likely distributed to USC donors. The pamphlet entered the Harvard University Library collection on October 31st, 1942. The ~50 page document illustrated the work of the USC's medical clinic in Marseilles up until early 1942, and is filled with pictures of patients being taken care of, used to indicate both the need for relief work and the "satisfactory" progress that the committee was making. The Polish team was organized by Noel H. Field, a communist sympathizer / spy and American citizen, who in 1942 was leading the clinic in France. It was he who brought together Dr. Bruk, Opalski, Tonia Lechtman, and Dorothea Jones in 1944 to begin the Polish medical mission in France, working in Polish DP camps.
Alex Chen.
Unitarian Service Committee, Saving the Future in Europe. (Boston, 194-, 194AD). Widener Library, Harvard University.
1941-1942
Pamphlet, Cover Design
Relief and Rehabilitation, A Study Guide
UNRRA, Reconstruction of Poland, American relief workers
This pamphlet, published by the National Planning Association and written by Spencer Coxe, is a quick introductory guide for anyone interested in relief work. The Introduction outlines some of the arguments surrounding relief work from the American perspective. Written a year into the establishment of UNRRA, the pamphlet is a great lens showing that debates regarding relief work already figured prominently in the discussion. Most of the pamphlet asks questions about relief that the reader needs to read the attached bibliography to find the answers for. The pamphlet seems to take a neutral stance towards the nature and scope of relief work that Americans should undertake.
Alex Chen
National Planning Association, Relief and Rehabilitation Study Guide, Prepared for the National Planning Association by Spencer Coxe. (Washington, DC: National Planning Association, 1944).
1944-1945
Pamphlet, Cover Design