Description
Object description
Extensive collection of papers relating mainly to the welfare work carried out by the Friends Relief Service Team 100 at Belsen and in various Displaced Persons' camps in Germany, April 1945 - July 1946, comprising: Hall Williams' diary for February - July 1945 as a member of RT100; scrapbook containing photographs and ephemera of RT100's progress through Belgium and northern Germany during 1945; official reports and private letters by Team members concerning their medical and welfare work at Belsen and in DP camps in Sulingen, Brunswick and other German towns, 1945 - 1946 (in particular with Jewish and Polish DPs); a small collection of papers relating to subsequent welfare work with the civilian population of Recklinghausen (Ruhr) and with repatriated DPs in Poland; and transcriptions (64pp ts) of letters written by Hall Williams while doing social work for the Friends Relief Service in London and Liverpool during June 1943 - October 1944; included in the collection is a copy of Hall Williams' published history of FRS Team 100: `A Page of History in Relief' (William Sessions Ltd, York, 1993).
Content description
Extensive collection of papers relating mainly to the welfare work carried out by the Friends Relief Service Team 100 at Belsen and in various Displaced Persons' camps in Germany, April 1945 - July 1946, comprising: Hall Williams' diary for February - July 1945 as a member of RT100; scrapbook containing photographs and ephemera of RT100's progress through Belgium and northern Germany during 1945; official reports and private letters by Team members concerning their medical and welfare work at Belsen and in DP camps in Sulingen, Brunswick and other German towns, 1945 - 1946 (in particular with Jewish and Polish DPs); a small collection of papers relating to subsequent welfare work with the civilian population of Recklinghausen (Ruhr) and with repatriated DPs in Poland; and transcriptions (64pp ts) of letters written by Hall Williams while doing social work for the Friends Relief Service in London and Liverpool during June 1943 - October 1944; included in the collection is a copy of Hall Williams' published history of FRS Team 100: `A Page of History in Relief' (William Sessions Ltd, York, 1993).
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1993-08