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World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian associations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Darius A. Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.57
Abstract

Papers of Darius Alton Davis, mostly relating to his YMCA career during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly his work with World War II prisoner-of-war camps. The collection also includes personal correspondence between Davis and his wife and their daughter while she was at college.

Dates: 1917-1975; Majority of material found within ( 1930s - 1940s)

International work subject files

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Identifier: Y.USA.9-3
Abstract

Subject files comprised of correspondence, reports, minutes, memoranda, and printed material concerning various aspects of YMCA work abroad, especially financial issues, boys' work, and war work.

Dates: 1869; 1889-1967

Records of YMCA International Work in Czechoslovakia

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-9
Abstract

Reports, correspondence, printed material and other records of YMCA work in Czechoslovakia, primarily during the period between World War I and the Communist take-over in 1948.

Dates: 1921-1969, 1990-1991; Majority of material found within ( 1921-1969).

Records of YMCA international work in Estonia

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-24
Abstract Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, development plans, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles and other records of YMCA international work in Estonia, especially on refugee relief work, hygiene promotion in children, the organization and administration of a school system for youth and night classes for refugees and returned soldiers, the operation of social and athletic clubs and the joint operation, with the Red Cross, of a large summer camp. Much of the later...
Dates: 1920-1946; Majority of material found within ( 1920-1936)

Records of YMCA international work in France

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-47
Abstract

Ccorrespondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, pamphlets, maps, journal and newspaper articles and other records documenting YMCA work in France, especially youth and publishing work done in France for Russian refugees.

Dates: 1869-1989; Majority of material found within ( 1920s-1970s)

Records of YMCA international work in Germany

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-48
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, books, pamphlets, maps, journal and newspaper articles and other records of the YMCA movement in Germany, covering World War II refugee relief programs, secretary training programs, development of technical vocational schools, and the development of youth hostels and villages as well as building projects in western Germany.

Dates: 1834-1998.; Majority of material found within ( 1940s-1960s).

Records of YMCA international work in Italy

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-53
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, pamphlets, maps, journal and newspaper articles and other records of North American YMCA international work in Italy, primarily in Rome.

Dates: 1897-1988.; Majority of material found within ( 1920s-1980s)

Records of YMCA international work in Latvia

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-27
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, development plans, pamphlets, newspaper articles and other records of the YMCA movement in Latvia and the Latvian YMCA movement in exile, as well as YMCA work in other parts of the Baltic region, including Lithuania.

Dates: 1920-1989; Majority of material found within ( 1922-1946)

Records of YMCA international work in miscellaneous countries

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Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-59
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, pamphlets, building plans, journal and newspaper articles and other records of the YMCA movement in Albania, Armenia, South Asia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, Gaza, Guam, Iran, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Middle East, Moluccas, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Saipan, Samoa, Western Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Scandinavia, Slovakia, Sweden, Syria, Tahiti, and Truk.

Dates: 1927-1994.

Records of YMCA international work in Poland

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.9-2-49
Abstract

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, music books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, journal and newspaper articles and other records of the YMCA movement in Poland, mostly focusing on the work of Paul Super on building projects and the state of Poland and Polish groups in exile after both German and Soviet occupation.

Dates: 1919-1992; Majority of material found within ( 1920-1960)