Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany / Organization: American Friends Service Committee - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.06 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary" describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .2 linear ft. (4 folders)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of two folders of the papers of Agnes Tierney, related to her time working with the American Friends Service Committee, especially in Germany. The majority of the collection is composed of Tierney's correspondence while in Germany, but the collection also includes pamphlets, notes, and extracts of meeting minutes.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of the personal correspondence of Thomas C. Potts. Many of the letters are written from Potts to Ethel, his wife, while he was traveling with the American Friends Service Committee in 1920.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))
Abstract:: This collection includes letters written by J. Edgar Rhoads to his family while he was in Germany administering war relief after WWI. Also included are the diaries of his grandfather, Jonathan E. Rhoads, from 1908-1910. These provide a record of daily appointments and expenses.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.75 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Abstract:: The collection, primarily of correspondence of Quaker Beulah Hurley (1886-) relating principally to her relief work after World War I in Europe and Russia under the auspices of several Friends' groups and the photographs of Quaker P. Alston Waring (1895-1978) taken in Europe, East Asia, California, Central America and mainly in India between 1915 and 1954.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes )
Abstract:: Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World War II and later.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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