Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-war World

Samantha K. Knapton is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. Katherine Rossy is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Royal Military College of Canada.

Introduction: Beyond Relief and Rehabilitation: UNRRA in Historical Perspective, Samantha K Knapton (University of Nottingham, UK); Katherine Rossy (Royal Military College of Canada)
1. ‘UNRRA – You Never Really Rehabilitate Anyone’: Problems of Rehabilitation in Definition and Practice, Samantha K Knapton (University of Nottingham, UK)
2. ‘Low in Health and Spirits’: The Hygiene and Health Campaign in UNRRA Camps in Germany and Austria as a Form of Rehabilitation, Katarzyna Nowak (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria)
3. Paving the way for a new democracy? UNRRA in Italy, Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence, Italy)
4. The Muse of Rural Assistance in Greece for Relief and Rehabilitation: The Near East Foundation and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-47, Joshua Thew (The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland)
5. Relief and Rehabilitation in UNRRA/CNRRA Photographic Representations of Refugees in Post-war China, Caroline Reeves (Harvard University Fairbank Centre, USA)
6. The Forgotten ‘R’: UNRRA’s Central Tracing Bureau and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Post-war Germany, 1945-47, Katherine Rossy (Royal Military College of Canada)
7. The Pate Reports and UNRRA: The Beginning of UNICEF, 1946, Lisa Payne Ossian (Des Moines Community College, USA)
8. The UNRRA: the ambiguity of ‘rehabilitation’, suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR’s post-war assistance operation, Dan Plesch and Grace Schneider (SOAS, University of London, UK)
Afterword: UNRRA: An Overview, Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester, UK)