Church of the Brethren
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Geraldine Liniger photograph album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058046690]
Identifier: 6262
Abstract
A photograph album compiled by Geraldine Liniger of Medford, Oregon to document her 1950 trip to a Brethren youth work camp in Kassel, Germany, where she helped build homes for refugees displaced by World War II. The album begins with a series of photographs showing Liniger and other young women sightseeing in Italy, Paris, and the Netherlands and attending a Brethren Service Committee conference in Germany. The remainder of the album dates from Liniger's time in at the Kassel work camp in...
Dates:
1950 - 1958
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058596496]
Identifier: 6261
Abstract
The Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family consist of 49 letters sent to Clayton P. Wenger and Suie S. Wenger, a Mennonite couple in Pennsylvania involved in charitable work among displaced and impoverished families in Austria during the years following World War II. The collection includes ten letters from Mr. and Mrs. Karl Wagner, a displaced couple living in Linz, Austria, and 36 letters from the Hubner family, a large and destitute family in Vienna. The Wengers...
Dates:
1947 - 1951
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections