NER reassesses its work after mass evacuation. New Near East, Mar 1923.
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Location

Corfu

Year

1923

Item Detail

Near East Relief redefined its mission around children and refugees relocated to Greece, Syria, and Palestine. Closing the stations in interior Anatolia had changed transport routes, orphanage sites, and disease control, and senior workers use this issue to explain why the emergency had changed form rather than ended. Reports from Greece, Syria, Palestine, and the Aleppo route cover orphan care, disease, transport, education, and refugee-made goods.

Context

The New Near East was Near East Relief's monthly publication that reported on the organization’s work and mobilized financial support from American readers. Its articles preserve evidence of field conditions and institutional decisions, but they frame that evidence through Near East Relief’s own appeals for support.

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  • Holding Institution

    Rockefeller Archive Center

  • External Link
    https://dimes.rockarch.org/objects/A54iV9QYKAt5ubNWtVrb5W/view

  • Attribution

    Near East Foundation Collection, Rockefeller Archive Center

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  • Notes

    Masthead: Vol. VIII, No. 4, March 1923. Published by Near East Relief, New York.

  • Document Contents

    * “To the Women of America” asks for protection and education for displaced children.

    * “A Re-Appraisal of Our Task,” by Charles V. Vickrey, reviews six months of evacuation, which included children transferred to Corfu and 1,000 boys known from Alice in Hungerland.

    * “‘He is Not Dead,’” by William A. Lloyd, memorializes a child through the continuance of relief.

    * “Relief Work in Syria,” by Bayard Dodge, traces refugees from Asia Minor through Aleppo and the Syrian area.

    * “In the Schneller Orphanage at Jerusalem” shows boys and institutional life in the former German orphanage.

    * “Easter Darkness,” by Laird Archer, warns of disease among about one million people in flight and reports 7,000 Greeks on the road through Diarbekir toward Aleppo.

    * “Rapid Transport at Aleppo” shows motor transport and feeding operations.

    * “Courage, Gentleness and Love” prints Harry C. Moffett’s letter about children under fire at Ismid during the Greco-Turkish war.

    * “Commendation by Clerics” prints Archbishop Raphael’s letter to Howard McAfee and a second church commendation.

    * “A New Sort of Easter Card” offers refugee-made linen and needlework for sale.

NER reassesses its work after mass evacuation. New Near East, Mar 1923.