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The Refugee in Contemporary Imagination
The Definition and Meaning of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Twentieth-Century Warfare and World War I- the Prelude to World War II
An Enormous Problem and an Enormous Response
Relocation to the United States
Useful Terms, Important People
Documents
Letter from H.A. Reinhold to John J. Burke on German Refugees, October 23, 1936
Letter from Bishop Rummel to General Secretary Ready with enclosed "Report of the Episcopal Committee for the Care of Catholic Refugees from Germany", May 11, 1937
"An Appeal for Catholic Refugees from Germany", October 1938
Letter from Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli to the US Bishops, January 9, 1939
"Catholic Refugees in Lisbon," September 1941
Letter from Howard J. Carroll to Apostolic Delegate Cicognani, with memorandum on Lithuanians in France, May 23, 1945
Letter from NCWC Executive Director Patrick O'Boyle to US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, with enclosed memorandum on American Policy on Displaced Persons, March 20, 1946
Proposal: A Vatican Commission on Displaced Persons," March 1946
Letter from Bishop Noll to Cardinal Stritch, April 1, 1946
Letter from unnamed NCWC staff person to Apostolic Delegate Cicognani, with enclosure "A Technique for Fighting Communism in the USA"
Letter from General Secretary Carroll to Apostolic Delegate Cicognani with Proposal on a Catholic Committee for the Resettlement of Displaced Persons, October 22, 1946
Letter from Apostolic Delegate Cicognani to General Secretary Carroll, with enclosure, Letter to Cicognani from the Vatican Secretariat of State, September 26, 1947
Letter from Secretary John O’Grady to Most Rev. C.H. LeBlond, with enclosure, “Resolution Passed by the Directors of Catholic Charities at their Annual Meeting, October 9-10, 1947.”
Letter from Swanstrom to Carroll, November 1, 1947, with enclosed memorandum “The Displaced Persons Problem and its Implication for the Catholic Church in the United States.”
Letter from Cardinal Spellman to Archbishop McNicholas, with an enclosed excerpt from a confidential letter received in Vienna on December 15, 1947
Memorandum of Understanding between the Vatican Emigration Office and War Relief Services- NCWC (no author), 1947.
John J. O’Grady, Executive Secretary of the NCCC, “Address Before the Syracuse Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, Hotel Onondaga, Syracuse, New York: The Challenge of Displaced Persons to the People of the United States,” January 10, 1948
Letter from Swanstrom to Carroll, with enclosure, the Parish Resettlement Kit, March 16, 1948
Minutes of the National Catholic Resettlement Council meeting in Buffalo, New York, July 14, 1948
Apostolic Letter from Pope Pius XII to John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Cinncinnati, December 24, 1948
Inter-Office Communication of the NCWC from Bruce Mohler to Msgr. Carroll, November 28, 1949, with enclosure, letter from Father Killion to Bruce Mohler, November 21, 1949
Minutes of a Joint Meeting of the National Catholic Resettlement Council and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, October 24, 1951
Chronology
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Refugees and Displaced Persons Before, During, and After World War II
Catholic Refugee Organizations and Jewish Refugee Organizations
Family Structures in Migration and Resettlement
Occupation, Region, and Agriculture vs. Academia
The Church, the State, and Transnational Organizations
Cultural Negotiation and "What It Means to be an American"
The Cold War and Displaced Persons as "Victims of Communism"
The Church's Mission in a Globalizing World
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