Interesting new collection added to the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection at the University Library at California State University, Sacramento - Below is the email received from George I. Paganelis, Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection. ----- Dear Friends of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection,   I am pleased to announce that the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection has acquired the papers of  Charles Maxton Schermerhorn . The American Charles Maxton Schermerhorn (1901-1985) attended Princeton Theological Seminary in the early 1920s and became a social worker during the 1930s. In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) sent him to Greece, but he was shortly thereafter employed by the Near East Foundation in Thessaloniki and by UNICEF, where he was the only civilian (native Greek or foreigner) running humanitarian food distribution campaigns throughout 170 war-torn northern Greek towns and villages between 1946-1951 during and after the Greek...

British PATHE - Historic Film Archive - Footage Library ----- 1949  Film clip title - Click on title below for link to video GREEK KIDS MAKE OWN SHOES FROM UN LEATHER Athens, Greece Various shots of young boys in a Government Children's Village making shoes from leather supplied by UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. A boy uses a sewing machine on some leather while some men stand around and watch. A line of children queue for shoes handed to them by officials.