Older boys learning skills for self-support in a machine shop in the Caucasus

PerMANENT Exhibit

Answering the Call: How America Mobilized

Discover how Near East Relief mobilized a nation in response to genocide. Through photographs, correspondence, field reports, and administrative records, this exhibit documents both the crisis and the unprecedented humanitarian effort that rose to meet it.

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Relief Worker Memorial

More than 1,000 Americans — missionaries and mechanics, nurses and teachers, veterans and conscientious objectors — served overseas with Near East Relief from 1915 to 1930. This memorial records each by name, with photographs and biographical details.

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Trebizond Boys Group, 1922
Trebizond Boys Group, 1922

Voices of Near East Relief

Experience history through the words of those who lived it. Voices of NER presents letters, diaries, memoirs, and status reports from the field – first-person accounts from relief workers, administrators, and survivors that reveal the daily realities of displacement, care, and rebuilding.

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Dispatches

Dispatches are in-depth stories from across the archive — each one explores a single place, person, or episode from NER’s history.

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