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III.21 Security­Classified War Refugee Board (WRB) & Other Messages
Relating to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) Program & The
Activities of the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee
Organization, July 1944–June 1948 (Entry 475)
This series includes incoming and outgoing telegrams, chiefly from
American legations in Bern and Stockholm and the Secretary of State,
Washington, DC, detailing the complex negotiations leading to the early
release and transport of Mauthausen and other concentration camp inmates.
(Box 853, location: 390/39/18/03)
RECORD GROUP 220, RECORDS OF TEMPORARY
COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS, AND BOARDS
III.22 Records of the War Refugee Board (WRB)
The WRB was established in January 1944 to develop plans for rescuing and
temporarily relocating victims of aggression by the Axis Powers. Textual
records of the WRB include Correspondence of Roswell D. McClelland,
WRB representative in Bern, Switzerland. Researchers are directed to this
series for further documentation on food relief and early evacuation oper­
ations from Mauthausen and other German­controlled concentration
camps. WRB textual records are in the custody of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York 12538. E­
mail: roosevelt.library@nara.gov
RECORD GROUP 226, RECORDS OF THE
OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES (OSS)
III.23 The OSS was established under the Joint Chiefs of Staff in June 1942
to conduct overt and covert intelligence operations in support of the war
against the Axis Powers. It was charged with collecting and analyzing raw
intelligence, disseminating finished intelligence to appropriate government
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