Commission for Polish Relief Records, 1939-1949

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Register of the Commission for 48000 1 Polish Relief Records, 1939-1949 Register of the Commission for Polish Relief Records, 1939-1949

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Descriptive Summary Title: Commission for Polish Relief Records, Date (inclusive): 1939-1949 Collection Number: 48000 Creator: Commission for Polish Relief Collection Size: 70 manuscript boxes (29.2 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, and photographs, relating to efforts to provide relief to Poland during World War II. Also available on microfilm (52 reels). Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Language: English. Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Commission for Polish Relief Records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1948. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Register of the Commission for 48000 2 Polish Relief Records, 1939-1949 Alternative Form Available Also available on microfilm (52 reels). Access Points Commission for Polish Relief World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief World War, 1939-1945--Poland Poland United States--Foreign relations Historical Note In response to the appeal of the Polish Government in Exile -including the Prime Minister, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and the Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki -we organized the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., on September 25, 1939. The officers of the new organization were: Chauncey McCormick, Chairman; Maurice Pate, President. The Directors were Hugh Gibson, W. Hallam Tuck, Edgar Rickard, Perrin C. Galpin, Lewis L. Strauss, Theodore Abel, Frederic C. Walcott, and Mrs. Vernon Kellogg. They sacrificed important positions to answer this call of suffering. I was made Honorary Chairman of the Commission. It was my responsibility to conduct negotiations with the various governments concerned, to secure financial support, and enlist public support by making speeches and by issuing public statements. My colleagues attended to the major problems of purchase of supplies and transportation. For the Polish operations, a staff was quickly recruited in Europe by cable. Mr. William C. McDonald..., was located in Switzerland, enjoyed high confidence in Poland. He went to Berlin immediately to conduct negotiations with the Germans and then proceeded to Warsaw, where he set up arrangements for the distribution of food and medical-relief supplies. Mr. Gilbert Redfern... was recruited in London and sent promptly to Vilna, where he performed an outstanding task in carring for Polish refugees in the Baltic States. Mr. F. Dorsey Stephens, aided by his wife Zora, did equally devoted and useful work among the fifty thousand Polish refugees in France. In the New York headquarters of the Commission for Polish Relief, McCormick and Pate had the invaluable devotion and experienced work of Columba P. Murray, Jr., Colonel Joseph Krueger, and Bernard Fraser, all veterans of the American Relief Administration. Hugh Gibson and Frederic Walcott voluntarily gave generously of their time on the negotiating and diplomatic side. Mrs. Vernon Kellogg was a zealous raiser of private contributions in the United States... In the initiation of relief to Poland, we concentrated upon two programs: the supply of food and clothing to the underfed children in the congested districts and ghettos in Poland, and care of Polish refugees, now scattered over Europe. Mr. Pate set up canteens, under the care of Polish women, which provided special meals to 200,000 undernourished children and aged persons daily in Poland. The Polish Government in Exile had set up refugee relief, and our organization supplied it with food and clothing. Our route for shipments was from the United States to Sweden and thence to Hamburg or Danzig. When it was cut off because of the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, the Commission was able to ship through Genoa or Lisbon and thence by rail to Poland. To finance the relief, the Commission supported the appeals of the Polish-American organizations in the United States, from whom we received about $400,000. The Polish Government in Exile made an initial donation of $186,225. It was certain that if the Commission were to be successful in carrying out a substantial program, it would cost more than the combined resources of both charity appeals and the exiled Polish Government. Therefore, on February 29, 1940, I obtained a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and advocated a fifty-million-dollar appropriation to the Red Cross for relief for Poland. I urged Norman Davis, Chairman of the American Red Cross, to undertake this relief. When the Congressional appropriation subsequently became law, the Red Cross undertook medical aid, but our organization received no part of it for the major need: food. To stimulate charitable contributions, the Commission organized a mass meeting at New York City's Madison Square Garden on March 12 at which I spoke. It organized a mass meeting in Chicago at which I also spoke, and another in New York on April 28, where both General Joseph Haller, Minister of State of the Republic of Poland, and I spoke. In the meantime, August Zaleski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish Government in Exile in London, took a hand in the finances of the Relief Commission... Our total resources with these additions amounted to about $6,000,000, including $3,060,704 in Polish gold deposited in the National Bank of Rumania. We sent Dorsey Stephens to Bucharest to bring out the gold. The Bank of Rumania refused to hand it over. After all patience had been exhausted in negotiating with it, we attached its balances in New York and won our case on July 15, 1941, in the lower courts. Although the British blockade was in action against delivery of food to German-occupied territory, we had no difficulty in obtaining permits for relief shipments during the Chamberlain ministry. However, when Churchill succeeded Chamberlain as Prime Minister in May, 1940, he soon stopped all permits of food relief to Poland. At the outset of our Polish relief operations, I conducted negotiations with the Germans through their Embassy officials in Washington. They were most co-operative, and issued certificates of immunity from submarine attack, provided neutral vessels were used. After we were prevented by Mr.

Register of the Commission for 48000 3 Polish Relief Records, 1939-1949 Churchill from sending overseas supplies to Poland, the Relief Commission deployed its American staff over Europe to seek food outside British control. They were able to make some purchases in the Baltic nations and in Russia, but in the end, the blockade closed in upon us, and this effort to aid Poland was ended. It was only by the incredible tenacity of Maurice Pate and our men in Europe that a meager stream of food and medical relief continued to trickle to Poland for nearly two more years. Beyond doubt, this saved thousands of lives. The further relief of Poland was now dependent on whether or not the British blockade could be relaxed for relief shipments. We did not abandon our effort to secure relaxation of the blockade, but merged this problem with those of the other small democracies. Scope and Content of Collection Correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, and photographs, relating to efforts to provide relief to Poland during World War II.

Box 1. Chairman's File, 1939-1941. Scope and Content Note Speeches, addresses, statements, broadcast, press release, drafts, writings, telegrams, letters, memoranda, reports of meetings, telephone conversations and other records relating to CPR activity and food relief, arranged alphabetically by physical form

Box 1., Folder 1 Cables Folder 2 Clippings Correspondence. Includes memoranda, reports of meetings and telephone conversations Folder 3 General Folder 4 Coulter J. L., Falconer J. I., Hobson A., McCollum E. V. Folder 5 Davison, Henry, 1918 Scope and Content Note Relates to the Committee for Relief in Beligum and the Red Cross War Council

Folder 6 Galpin, Perrin Folder 7 Hartigan, John Folder 8 Krueger, Colonel Folder 9 McCormick, Chauncey Folder 10 Parke, Norman Folder 11 Pate, Maurice Folder 12 Richard, Edgar Folder 13 Richmond, Richard Folder 14 Sikorski, Wladyslaw Folder 15 Tuck, Hallam Folder 16 Tucker, Robert Leonard Speeches and writings General Folder 17 Correspondence and memoranda regarding CPR activity and food relief. Holograph and typescript Folder 18 Drafts of by-laws, membership lists Folder 19 Address, Polish mass meeting in the Chicago stadium, 1940 February 10. Typescript Folder 20 Address, Polish National Council of New York, New York City, New York, 1940 March 12. Typescript Folder 21 Speech, Finnish Pavilion, New York World's Fair, New York City, New York, 1940 May 16. Typescript Folder 22 Speech, Opening of Belgian Pavilion at New York World's Fair, New York City, New York, 1940 May 18. Typescript Folder 23 "We as Americans...," 1940 September. Statement. Typescript Folder 24 "America and the Famine in the Five Little Democracies," address, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1940 November 15. Press release

Folder 25 "Feed Hungry Europe!" Collier's, 1940 November 23. Clipping Folder 26 "When Winter Comes to Europe," 1940 November 23. Typescript Folder 27 "The March of Hunger in Europe," address, Chicago, Illinois, 1941 February 16. Typescript Folder 28 "The Question of Peace," broadcast, National Broadcasting Company, New Haven, Connecticut, 1941 March 28. Press release Folder 29 "The Food Situation in Belgium as of July 1941." Typescript written by E. J. Bigwood with foreword by Herbert Hoover Box 2.-6. Office File, 1939-1947. Scope and Content Note Reports, correspondence, lists, histories, legal documents, agreements, subscriptions, personnel records, press releases, radio broadcasts, publications, pamphlets and programs, arranged alphabetically by physical form. See also Chairman's File/Speeches and writings/General

Box 2., Folder 1 General. Bound volume of various documents relating to operations of the CPR Folder 2 By-laws Folder 3 Certificate of incorporation Folder 4 Correspondence regarding fund-raising needs Folder 5 Filing papers Folder 6-8 History of the organization. Includes some material about chronology of events in Poland Box 3., Folder 1 Inquiries from Poles abroad regarding aid from CPR, fate of relatives in Poland, etc. Folder 2 Lease Folder 3 Letterheads and envelopes of CPR Folder 4 License Folder 5 Liquidation papers Lists Folder 6 Directors and officers Donations Folder 7 1939-1940 Folder 8 1941 Folder 9 Mailing Box 4. Personnel records Applications General Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 Female Folder 3 Secretary-Steno Folder 4 Miscellaneous Male Foreign personnel Folder 5 1940 Folder 6 1941 Folder 7 Fund raising Folder 8 Miscellaneous Box 5., Folder 1 Correspondence between members of CPR and officers of various organizations, regarding recommendations Folder 2 Decorations Folder 3 Lists Folder 4 Volunteer files Folder 5 Policy toward Poland Publicity material Folder 6 General Folder 7-10 Clippings Folder 11 Pamphlets and programs Box 6., Folder 1 Press releases

Publications Folder 2 General Folder 3 News Bulletins Folder 4 Radio broadcasts Reports Folder 5 1940. Interim report of CPR Folder 6 1945-1947. "Report on Organization and Operation of Mission in Poland" Folder 7 Subscriptions Folder 8 Miscellaneous Box 7.-11. Cables, 1940-1941. Scope and Content Note Telegrams arranged alphabetically by name of individual working on behalf of the organization

Box 7., Folder 1-2 General Folder 3 Brown, Lei and Paul Super (Bucharest) Folder 4-5 Exportkhleb (Soviet Union) Folder 6 Friar, Millard Shaler and Hallam Tuck (Brussels) Folder 7 Hansen C. K. (Denmark) Box 8. Hartigan, John 1940 Folder 1 General Folder 2 April-May Folder 3 June Folder 4 July Folder 5 August-September Folder 9. 1941 Folder 6 October-December Folder 1 January Folder 2 February Folder 3 March-April Folder 4 Heyl, Ernst Folder 5 Hynes, John Box 10., Folder 1 Ilmetson (Norway) Folder 2 MacDonald, William C. Folder 3 Poni and Paul Super (Budapest) Redfern, Gilbert 1940 Folder 4 January-July Folder 5 August-December Folder 6 1941 Box 11., Folder 1 Shaler, Millard Stephens, Dorsey [Zora] Folder 2 1940 Stephens, Dorsey [Zora] (Contd.) 1941 Folder 3 January-April Folder 4 May-December Folder 5 Wilson, Randolph C. Box 12.-33. Correspondence, 1939-1947. Scope and Content Note Letters sent and received by the Commission for Polish Relief office. Includes correspondence with individuals, Local Committees, Polish societies in United States, organizations, consulates and embassies. Includes some other types of material. Arranged alphabetically by subject

General, 1940-1945

Box 12. A-C Box 13. D-G Box 14. H-L Box 15. M-P Box 16. Q-S Box 17. T-Z Box 18. Individuals, 1940-1943 Folder 1 Adams, Stacy, 1940-1941 Folder 2 Agar, William M. Folder 3 Allen, Richard F., 1942 Folder 4 Beckelman, M. W., 1941 Folder 5 Biddle, Anthony D., 1940 Folder 6 Brener, Mina, 1942-1943 Brown, James W. Folder 7 1940 Folder 8 1941 Folder 9 Brown, Milton, 1941 Folder 10 Cassel, Barry W., 1941 Castle, William R. Folder 11 1940 Folder 12 1941 Folder 13 Cevey, Paul Ernest, 1941 Folder 14 Ciechanowska, Marie, 1941 Folder 15 Churchill, Winston, 1941 Folder 16 Cudahy, John, 1940 Box 19. Darnall, John P. Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 Folder 3 De Stoop, John, 1941-1942 Donovan, William J. Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Folder 6 DuBois, Arthur Wood, 1940-1941 Frese, Herman B. General Folder 7 1940 Folder 8 1941 Folder 9 Reports Individuals (Contd.) Folder 10 Frisse, Hans, 1941 Folder 11 Gamble, Arthur, 1940 Box 20., Folder 1 Goldstein, Isidor, 1942-1943, 1947 Folder 2 Goudvis, Theodore L., 1941, 1944 Folder 3 Gregg, John P., 1940-1941 Folder 4 Grove, William R., 1940-1941 Hartigan, John Folder 5 Broadcasts, 1940 Correspondence General 1940 Folder 6 January-June Folder 7 July-December Box 21., Folder 1 1941 Folder 2 Personal Folder 3 Report on trip to Poland, 1940 October 29-November 3 Folder 4-5 Heyl, Ernst, 1940 Folder 6 Horner, Charles F., 1941 Folder 7 Humphrey, Grace, 1941

Box 22. Hynes, John, 1940 Folder 1 January Folder 2 February-March Folder 3 April-August Folder 4 September-December Box 23., Folder 1 Kwapiszewski, Michael, 1941-1942 Folder 2 Lehman, M. C., 1941-1943 Folder 3 MacAlarney, Robert E., 1941 MacDonald, William C. Folder 4 General Folder 5 1940 Folder 6 1941 Folder 7 Majewski, Tomasz, 1941 Folder 8 Moen, Lara, 1941 Folder 9 Paderewski, Ignacy, 1940-1941 Folder 10 Rajchman, Ludwik, 1940-1941 Redfern, Gilbert 1940 Folder 11 January-April Box 24., Folder 1 May-September Folder 2 October-December Folder 3 1941 Folder 4 Richmond, Raymond, S., 1941 Folder 5 Rieber, Torkild, Captain, 1940 Folder 6 Ronikier, Adam, Count, 1945 Folder 7 Ropp, Stephan, 1941 Individuals (Contd.) Folder 8 Segal, Simon Folder 9 Shaler, Millard, 1940-1942 Folder 10 Smith, James V., 1940-1944 Box 25., Folder 1 Shattuck, Edwin P., 1940 Folder 2 Sparrow, Edward, 1941 Folder 3 Spielrein, Jan Stephens, Dorsey Correspondence Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Folder 6 1942 Folder 7 Personal papers Super, Paul Folder 8 Correspondence, 1939-1941 Folder 9 Publications. Pamphlets about history of Poland Reports of the Polish Y.M.C.A. on its activities in Europe, 1941 Folder 10 First report, February Folder 11 Second report, March Folder 12 Third report, May Folder 13 Szoszkies, Henry, 1941 Folder 14 Topping, Tom, 1941 Folder 15 Tresidder, Donald B. Box 26. Wilson, Randolph C. Correspondence Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 Folder 3 Report of relief activities in Europe, 1940 October 31 Folder 4 Zbudowski, Helen Local Committees, 1940 Folder 5 Belmont, Massachusetts Folder 6 Boston, Massachusetts. Includes Massachusetts mailing list

Folder 7 Chicago, Illinois Folder 8 Cleveland, Ohio Folder 9 Hartford, Connecticut Folder 10 Hollywood, California Folder 11 Houston, Texas Folder 12 Idaho State Committee Box 27., Folder 1 New Haven, Connecticut Folder 2 New Jersey State Committee Folder 3 New York Committee. Contains partial list of Committee members Folder 4 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Folder 5 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Folder 6 Poughkeepsie, New York Folder 7 Princeton, New Jersey. Includes statement of receipts and disbursements Folder 8 San Fernandino, California Folder 9 San Francisco, California Folder 10 South Amboy, New Jersey Syracuse, New York Folder 11 List of persons present at meeting on 1940 January 17 for the purpose of forming a Committee for Polish Relief Folder 12 Report regarding the Formation of a Local Committee in Syracuse, New York, 1940 January 19 Folder 13 Utica, New York. Report regarding the formation of a Local Committee in Utica, New York, 1940 January 19 Folder 14 Washington, D.C. Organizations, consulates, and embassies, 1939-1947 Folder 15 Allied Relief Fund Folder 16 American Express Company. Foreign Remittance Department Folder 17 American Friends of Polish Democracy American Friends Service Committee Folder 18 1939 Folder 19 1940 Box 28. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Folder 20 1941 Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 American Red Cross Folder 3 1940 Folder 4 1941-1942 Folder 5 Amtorg Trading Corporation, 1940 Folder 6 Bermuda. Imperial Censor, 1941 Folder 7 Brazilian Committee for Polish Relief Folder 8 Central Bureau for Registered Addresses Folder 9 Committee of Mercy Folder 10 Finnish Relief Fund Folder 11 German Red Cross Folder 12 Germany. Auswartiges Amt Box 29. Germany. Botschaft (United States) Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 Folder 3 Germany. Konsulat (New York) Great Britain. Consulate (New York) Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Great Britain. Embassy (United States) Folder 6 1940 Folder 7 1941 Folder 8 Huisking and Company, re codliver oil purchases Folder 9 Industrial Mercantile Corporation

Folder 10 International Red Cross Kosciuszko Foundation Folder 11 1940 Folder 12 1941 Folder 13 Mennonite Central Committee (American Mennonite Agency for Foreign Relief) Folder 14 National Catholic Welfare Conference National Committee on Food for Five Democracies Folder 15 General Folder 16 Press release, 1941 March Box 30., Folder 1 National Industrial Conference Board. Reports, 1941 Folder 2 National Information Bureau Folder 3 Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief Paderewski Testimonial Fund Folder 4 General Folder 5 Correspondence re fundraising needs Folder 6 Polish Central Relief Committee Folder 7 Polish Relief Fund, London Folder 8 Polish Women's Relief Committee Rada Polonii Amerykanskiej (Polish-American Council) 1940 Folder 9 January-July Folder 10 August-December Box 31., Folder 1 1941 Folder 2 Scottish Relief for Polish Prisoners Folder 3 Shuttuck, Bangs and Davis Corporation Company, 1941-1947 United States. Department of Agriculture Folder 4 General Folder 5 Reports United States. Department of State Folder 6 General. List of registrants Folder 7 1939 Box 32., Folder 1 1940 Folder 2 1941 Folder 3 United States. Department of Treasury Folder 4 United States. Embassy (Germany) Box 33. Polish societies, 1940-1941 Folder 5 Y.M.C.A. American Folder 1 California Folder 2 Connecticut Folder 3 Iowa Folder 4 Illinois Folder 5 New Jersey Folder 6 New York Folder 7 Massachusetts Folder 8 Michigan Folder 9 Minnesota Folder 10 Ohio Folder 11 Oregon Folder 12 Pennsylvania Folder 13 Rhode Island Folder 14 Washington Folder 15 Wisconsin Folder 16 Foreign

Box 33.-41. Membership File, 1939-1947. Scope and Content Note File relating to directors and officers. Telegrams, letters, lists, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, statistical data and other records arranged alphabetically by names of directors and officers

General Folder 17 Correspondence Folder 18 Form letters Folder 19 Letters of thanks Box 34., Folder 1 Membership lists. See OFFICE FILE/Lists/Directors and officers Minutes of meeting Folder 2 1939 Folder 3 1940 Folder 4 1941 Folder 5 1942-1947 Folder 6 Abel, Theodore, 1940-1941. Correspondence Folder 7 Cooper, Merian C., 1940. Correspondence Galpin, Perrin. Correspondence Folder 8 1940 Folder 9 1941 Gibson, Hugh Cables 1940 Folder 10 April-May Box 35., Folder 1 June-August Folder 2 September-December 1941 Folder 3 January-February Folder 4 March-April Box 36., Folder 1 May-December Correspondence Folder 2-3 1940 Folder 4-5 1941 Folder 6 Kellogg, Vernon, 1939-1940. Correspondence Box 37., Folder 1 Krueger, J. W., Colonel, 1941. Correspondence McCormick, Chauncey. Correspondence 1940 Folder 2 January-March Folder 3 April-December Folder 4 1941 Folder 5 McCracken, Henry Noble, 1940. Correspondence Murray, Columba Folder 6 Cables, 1941 April - 1942 July Folder 7 Chronological record of CPR activities Correspondence Folder 8 1940 Box 38. 1941 Folder 1 January-May Folder 2 June-August Folder 3 September-December Folder 4 1942 Box 39., Folder 1 1943-1947 Reports on trips to Poland Folder 2 1940 August 1941 Folder 3 January Folder 4 September

Folder 5 Miscellaneous Pate, Maurice Folder 6 Cables, 1939-1941 Correspondence Folder 7 1939-1940 Box 40., Folder 1 1941 Folder 2 1942 Folder 3 1943-1944 Folder 4 Letters against and for relief. Includes letters of thanks Folder 5 Report to the Polish American Council, 1941 Folder 6 Rickard, Edgar, 1940-1941 Folder 7 Satterlee, Herbert. Correspondence, 1940 Folder 8 Sawtelle, Raymond. Correspondence, 1940-1943 Box 41., Folder 1 Strauss, Lewis. Correspondence, 1940-1941 Tuck, Hallam Folder 2 Cables, 1940 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1941 Folder 4 Walcott, Frederic C. Correspondence, 1940 Box 41.-47. Shipping Records, 1939-1947. Scope and Content Note Records, bulletins, lists, protocols, distribution plans, receipts, financial documents, summaries concerning shipments of food, cloths and medications to Poland, arranged alphabetically by subject and geographic area (primarily countries)

General Folder 5 General Folder 6 Agents Export control schedule Folder 7 General Folder 8 Control bulletins, 1942 (incomplete) Folder 9 Export license Folder 10 Export subsidy Food shipments General. Genoa shipments General Folder 1 SS Guilia Folder 2 SS Manhattan Folder 3 SS Washington Protocols Lublin Folder 4 Distribution plan Folder 5 Primary receipts Folder 6 Secondary receipts Radom Folder 7 Distribution plan Folder 8 Primary receipts Warsaw Folder 9 Distribution plan Folder 10 Primary receipts Folder 11 Summary of food shipments to Poland Oil Folder 12 General Box 43. Cod liver oil General Folder 1 SS Canis Folder 2 SS Jalderen Folder 3 SS Vesta Herring Receiving warehouses

Krakow SS Canis Folder 4 General Folder 5 Financial documents Folder 6 SS Vesta Herring Warsaw Folder 7 SS Canis Folder 8 SS Vesta Herring Box 44., Folder 1 Insurance Folder 2 International transport Folder 3 Medical shipments Shipping companies Folder 4 General Folder 5 American Bureau of Shipping. Bulletins, 1940-1941 Folder 6 American Export Lines Folder 7 American Express Company Folder 8 Italian Lines Folder 9 Leggett and Company Folder 10 Moore-McCormack Lines Folder 11 Trans-Atlantic Associated Freight Conferences Folder 12 United States Lines Folder 13 Miscellaneous Bulgaria Folder 1 General Receiving warehouses Folder 2 Krakow Folder 3 Warsaw Lithuania General Folder 4 Letters Folder 5 Telegrams First shipment Folder 6 General Folder 7 Insurance Receiving warehouses Folder 8 Krakow Folder 9 Lublin Folder 10 Radom Folder 11 Warsaw Folder 46. Second shipment Folder 1 General Receiving warehouses Folder 2 Krakow Folder 3 Warsaw Soviet Union Folder 4 General Receiving warehouses Krakow Folder 5 General Folder 6-7 Receipts. Includes cover letters Box 47. Warsaw Folder 1 General Folder 2 Protocols Folder 3 Receipts United States Folder 4 Car arrivals. List Clothing Folder 5 General

Folder 6 SS Rex Shipment Folder 7 SS Vasaholm Shipment Box 47.-53. Financial Records, 1939-1949. Scope and Content Note Accounts, audits, insurance documents, payments, rates, receipts and disbursements, statements, statistics, bank records, arranged alphabetically by physical form

Accounts Poland Folder 8 1940 Folder 9 1941-1943 Folder 10 Portugal (Lisbon) Audits General Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company General Folder 11 1940 Folder 12 1941-1942 Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company (Contd.) Reports Folder 13 1941 Folder 14 1942 Folder 15 Miscellaneous Haskins and Sells Folder 16 Report, 1940 Box 48. Insurance documents Folder 1 General, 1939-1943 Folder 2 Johnson and Higgins Marine Insurance, 1940-1943 Folder 3 Marsh and McLennan insurance Folder 4 Payments Folder 5 Rates Receipts and disbursements Folder 6-7 General Box 49., Folder 1 General Folder 2 Lisbon Folder 3 Madrid Statements General General Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Folder 6 Audited Folder 7 Deloitte, Plender, Griffins and Co., 1944 Box 50. Cities Folder 1 Budapest Folder 2 Miscellaneous Local Committees Statistics Folder 3 1939-1940 Folder 4 1941-1942 Box 51. Subject file Chase National Bank Folder 1 General, 1939 Correspondence Folder 2 1940 Folder 3 1941 Receipts and statements Folder 4 1940

Folder 5 1941 Folder 6 Treasury bonds, 1942-1944 Folder 7 Paris Branch Box 52. Deutsche Bank Folder 1 General Folder 2 Pending Federal Reserve Bank Folder 3 General, 1940-1942 Folder 4 Regulations Folder 5 Irving Trust Company, 1940 Folder 6 Public National Bank United States. Department of the Treasury. Internal Revenue Service Folder 7 General, 1941-1948 Box 53., Folder 1 Coupon interests on Treasury bonds Folder 2 Tax exemptions, 1939-1949 Box 53.-68. Subject File, 1939-1945. Scope and Content Note Telegrams, letters, lists, minutes of meetings, articles, bulletins, memoranda, statements, press releases, broadcasts, balance sheet of food, estimates of calories, self-sufficiency ratings, food rations, data, maps, reports, agreements, records, summaries, diets, statistics, statements, settlement documents, legal documents, registration forms, protocols, bills, records, mimeograph, printed matter, publications, textbooks, arranged alphabetically by subject

Belgian-American Educational Foundation General Folder 3 1940 Folder 4 1941 Folder 5 Cables Folder 6 Belgian Relief Survey. Minutes of meetings, 1941 January 19-23 Folder 7 Czechoslovakia. Issues of News Flashes from Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination, New York, 1941 Food General Folder 8 Articles, memoranda and statements pertaining to the approaching famine in European countries. Includes press release from the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1940 July 24 Folder 9 Balance sheet of food in continental Europe, 1941 Box 54., Folder 1 Clippings Folder 2 Estimates of foreign food supplies needed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Central Poland (estimates of the proportion of such supplies to German consumption requirements) Folder 3 Data Folder 4 European self-sufficiency ratings, 1939-1941 Folder 5 Map of food districts Folder 6 Question and answer sets Radio broadcasts pertaining to the Hoover's Feeding Plan Folder 7 1940 Folder 8 1941 Folder 9 Report by Herman Frese, "The European Food Problem and the Hoover Proposals," 1941 Folder 10 Summary of the net trade in food stuffs and feedstuffs of 23 continental European countries (yearly averages for the 1934-1938 period) Folder 11 Trade agreement between continental European countries Folder 12 Miscellaneous The Balkans Belgium Folder 2 General

Folder 3 Chronological record of visit to Belgium of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1941 January 19-24 Folder 4 Diet of the Belgian population at the end of 1940 and forecast for 1941 by E. J. Bigwood Food conditions Folder 5 Articles Folder 6 Broadcast, 1941 February Folder 7 Memorandum Folder 8 Press release, 1941 February 1. Draft Folder 9 Reports Folder 10 Food rations Folder 11 Estimate of calories in the daily food diet that can be offered to Belgian consumers out of Belgian native produce Folder 12 Printed matter Folder 13 Bread grain crops of continental Europe, 1941 Folder 14 Condensed milk and cod liver oil Folder 15 Denmark Folder 16 Diets Folder 17 Exports and imports of European countries Folder 18 Famine Box 56. Finland Folder 1 General Folder 2 Vitamins and drugs Folder 3 Flour, Dark rye Folder 4 Foodstuffs Folder 5 Food ministry Folder 6 France Germany Folder 7 General Folder 8 Fat resources Food rations Folder 9 General Folder 10 Changes Folder 11 Food reserves Folder 12 Self-sufficiency Great Britain Folder 13 General. Bulletins from Britain, 1941 January 22. (Supplement Number 21) Reports Folder 14 "Britain and the Famine Situation," n.d. Folder 15 "British Blockade Loopholes," by H. B. Frese, 1941 January 16 Folder 16 Greece Folder 17 Italy Folder 18 Netherlands Norway Folder 19 General Folder 20 Relief, 1940-1941 Occupied countries Folder 21 Reserves of food Folder 22 Supplies needed Folder 23 Packages Box 57. Poland Folder 1 General. Food packages Folder 2 Central Poland Folder 3 Western Poland Folder 4 Rations of food Folder 5 Romania Soviet Union Folder 6 General

Folder 7 Report on factors affecting food supplies Folder 8 Spain Folder 9 Switzerland Folder 10 Hoover, Herbert. Report by William Agar, "Why Hoover Is Wrong," 1941 Folder 11 Hungary, 1940-1941 Folder 12 National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies. Statement regarding the continental food problem, 1941 February 28 Box 58., Folder 1 Norway Folder 2 Orlemanski, Stanislaw, Reverend, 1944 Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief Folder 3 General Bulletins Folder 4 General, 1941 January-April (#1-3) Folder 5 Campaign bulletins, 1940 April-August (#1-27) Folder 6 Clippings Folder 7 List of members Folder 8 Mimeograph. Information and instructions for the formation of Committees, n.d. Press releases, 1940 Folder 9 January-May Folder 10 June-December Box 59., Folder 1 Printed matter Paderewski Testimonial Fund Folder 2 Bulletins, 1941 May - 1942 January (#1-5) Folder 3 List of members Poland General Publications Nowy Swiat Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Folder 6 PM Folder 7 Polish Rewiew Reports General Folder 8 1940 Folder 9 1941 CPR - Trips to Poland First trip, 1940 July 4-15 Folder 10 General Folder 11 Krakow Folder 12 Warsaw Folder 13 Second trip, 1940 October 29-November 3 Folder 14 Third trip, 1941 March 16-22 Folder 15 Statistics Box 60. Textbooks Folder 1 Kurs Jezyka Angielskiego Folder 2 Kurs Jezyka Francuskiego Folder 3 Kurs Jezyka Niemieckiego Folder 4 Kurs Jezyka Wegierskiego Folder 5 Miscellaneous Consulates, 1939-1942 Folder 6 Chicago Folder 7 New York Folder 8 Ottawa Folder 9 Pittsburg Embassies Folder 10 Great Britain United States

Folder 11 New York Washington Folder 12 1940 Box 61., Folder 1 Washington 1941 Gold. Case against the Romanian National Bank Folder 2 Account Folder 3 Audit, Final Folder 4 Brief of Court of Appeals Correspondence Folder 5 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Folder 6 Fidelity and Deposit Company Folder 7 Irving Trust Company Folder 8 Shattuck, Bangs and Davis Attornies Folder 9 History Folder 10 Legal decision Folder 11 Settlement documents Folder 12 Statements Folder 13 Termination papers Box 62. Government in exile Folder 1 General Folder 2 Relations with CPR History - Occupation, 1939-1945 Folder 3 German invasion of Poland Folder 4 Russian occupation of Poland Medical aid to Poland General 1941 Folder 5 March-September Folder 6 October-December Folder 7 1942 Folder 8 1943-1944 Box 63., Folder 1 Insurance claim Folder 2 Medical supplies. Includes report on distribution Folder 3 Prisoners of war Refugees General Folder 4 General Folder 5 Hungarian Polish Committee for Refugees Folder 6 Italy Folder 7 Outside of enemy territories Folder 8 Romania. Map of refugee relief centers Folder 9 Children Folder 10 Relief agencies. Includes registration forms Poland (Territory under German Occupation, 1939-1945) Folder 11 Private welfare. "The Structure of Private Welfare," 1940. Typescript report Folder 12 Public welfare. Includes reports on Jewish welfare, 1940 Polish Chief Relief Committee Folder 13 Krakow Folder 14 Lublin Folder 15 Warsaw. Includes memorandum entitled "Food in Central Poland" by H. B. Frese, 1941 March 12 Box 64. Polish Self-Help Committee Folder 1 General Folder 2 Forms Folder 3 List of participants, 1940 Folder 4 Memorandum on the activities of the Committee in Warsaw, n.d. Reports on activities

Folder 5 Radom Warsaw Folder 6 1940 Folder 7 1941 Polish Information Bureau Folder 8 General Folder 9 Facts and Figures Folder 10 A News Bulletin on Eastern European Affairs, 1941 March-December Folder 11 Polish Institute of Arts and Science in America Polish National Council of New York Correspondence General. Includes some documents relating to the PNC of America Folder 12 1940 Folder 13 1941 Box 65., Clothing Folder 1-7 Polish Red Cross Folder 8 General Folder 9 Protocols Folder 10 Statistics on stocks in warehouse Polish Relief Council in Warsaw Folder 11 General Folder 12 List of members and main officers Rada Polonii Amerykanska (Polish-American Council) Bulletins Folder 13 1940 Box 66., Folder 1 1941 Folder 2 Reports, 1941 Folder 3 Romania, 1940-1941 Folder 4 Secours d'Hiver Folder 5 Slavic countries. Issues of Slavonic Bulletin, New York, 1941 Folder 6 Soviet Union Folder 7 Spat, Emil - Jewelry Stanford Food Research Institute Folder 8 Memoranda and reports Printed matter Folder 9 General Publications pertaining to the food situation Folder 10 General Folder 11 Wheat Studies, 1939-1941 Box 67. United States. Congress Folder 1 Congressional bills regarding financial relief to Poland and other countries Folder 2 Congressional matters, 1940 Folder 3 Excerpts from Congressional Record on food situation in Europe World War, 1939-1945 Foreign Correspondence Folder 4 1940 Folder 5 1941 Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletins, 1940 Folder 6 January-February Folder 7 March Box 68., Folder 1 April Folder 2 May Folder 3 June Folder 4 July Folder 5 August Folder 6 September-December Folder 7 Overseas News Agency, New York, 1940

Box 69.-70. Photographs, 1940-1941. Scope and Content Note 383 prints and 19 negatives taken by CPR representatives, arranged by subject

General Folder A-C 45 prints depicting CPR representatives Arthur Gamble and Columba Murray, Jr., during their first inspection trip to Poland (Garwolin, Krakow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw), 1940 July 6-12, accompanied by members of the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Central Relief Committee for Occupied-Poland, Polish Red Cross, Polish Self-Help Committee; local relief committee officials; German Red Cross representatives and other German officials; Catholic priests; Jewish Self-Help Committee, Jewish Senior Committee, Jewish Gemeinde and Judischer Ober Altestenrat representatives. Includes description of photographs Folder D 3 prints depicting CPR representatives Arthur Gamble, John Hartigan, and Columba Murray giving an interview to the National Broadcasting Company, 1940 August Folder E-F 25 prints depicting CPR representatives John Hartigan and Columba Murray, Jr., on their second inspection trip to Krakow and Warsaw, 1940 October 29-November 4, accompanied by members of the Polish Chief Committee, Polish Self-Help Committee, Rada Glowna Opiekuncza, St. Vincent de Paul Society; Jewish Gemeinde officials; representatives of the German Red Cross and other German officials. Includes description of photographs Folder G-H 48 prints depicting Wm. C. McDonald on the third CPR inspection trip to Poland, 1941 March-April. Group includes members of Polish Central Relief Committee, Polish Self-Help Committee, Polish Chief Relief Committee and other Polish and German officials. Includes description of photographs Folder I 29 prints depicting CPR representative Columba Murray and M. C. Lehman of the American Mennonite Committee, and scenes of relief activity in various places in Warsaw, 1941 September 25-30. Group includes Polish and German officials. Includes description of photographs Folder J-N 84 prints taken by the Polish Chief Relief Committee and Self-Help Committee, depicting the distribution of relief supplies in Poland received from CPR Folder O 1 print depicting Colonel William J. Donovan, President of the Paderewski Fund for Polish Relief, and Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Assistant General Chairman of the New York Campaign Polish provincial cities Folder P Biala Podlaska, 2 prints Folder Q Chelm, 1 print Folder R Hrubieszow, 1 print Folder S Jaroslaw, 6 prints Folder T Konskie, 2 prints Folder U Lublin, 17 prints Box 70., Folder V Okocim Gorny, 3 prints Folder W Ostrowiec, 6 prints Folder X Ostrow Mazowiecki, 2 prints Folder Y Piotrkow, 19 prints Folder Z Przeworsk, 1 print Folder AA Siedlce, 1 print Folder AA Siedlce, 1 print Folder AB Skierniewice, 3 prints Folder AC Starachowice, 2 prints Folder AD Zakopane, 1 print Folder AE Zamosc, 3 prints Polish refugees Folder AF 7 prints depicting Polish soldiers arriving in Budapest Folder AG 15 prints depicting the Bucharest Branch of the Commission for Polish Relief Folder AH 1 print depicting the Health Unit in Pernio, Finland Folder AI 4 prints depicting Polish refugees in Portugal

Folder AJ 5 prints depicting refugees in Vilna Folder AK Warsaw Ghetto, 16 prints Folder AL Miscellaneous Negatives Folder AM 12 negatives depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Folder AN 7 negatives (4 plates) depicting the Jewish Isolation Center in the city of Radom Folder AO 1 album of 30 prints depicting the city of Lublin