League of Nations Archives (at the UN Office in Geneva Library)

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

UNRRA Photo Collection

International Refugee Organization (IRO)

• IRO Archives at Archives Nationals

United Nations War Crimes Commission - To view in New York, please contact us to request access to the Charge Files series. Records are also available (with no access restrictions) in Washington, D.C. at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A reflection on past war crimes and today’s crimes against humanity

High Commissioner Dialogue with Ben Ferencz

Listen to The Lid Is On podcast with Ben Ferencz (one of the prosecutors of the Nuremberg war crime trials)

In 2015 when the UN Archives did an exhibition for the 70^th Anniversary of the United Nations, we displayed some archives of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Included among them was a picture of young Peter Tannenbaum, and a letter from his father to the Director of UNRRA. The Tannenbaums had survived the Holocaust, and were living in an UNRRA-administered refugee camp in Grugliasco, Italy, where Peter had just been born.

• International Tracing Service's "Request for persons persecuted by National Socialism, their families and representatives" in Bad Arolsen, Germany

• The Red Cross tracing service, via your local Red Cross chapter

• Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names in Jerusalem, Israel 

• The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, USA

• The US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center in Washington, DC, USA

• International Refugee Organization Archives at Archives Nationals in Paris, France

• The Routes to Roots Foundation, an online database for Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe

Many of these organizations provide services over the web as well as in person. 

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was established by agreement of 44 nations on 9 November 1943; operations came to an end in the latter part of 1946, with the last staff appointment terminating 31 March 1949. The purpose of UNRRA was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations through the provision of food, fuel, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities, medical and other essential services". 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Documents, Film and Audio

World Health Organization

Digitized Documents at the Hathi Trust Digital Library

Columbia University Library

Series related to UNRRA at the US National Archives

Robert E. Asher papers at the US National Archives

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Register of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration China Office at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

UNRRA Clothing Collection at the University of Melbourne