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Description:Pictured is a "Notkirche" (church built from rubble) at Mannheim-Waldhof, American zone of Germany, at the time of cornerstone-laying ceremonies.Creator:Thorrelson. (photographer)Subject names:World Council of Churches., Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Church buildings--Germany., Cornerstone laying--Germany., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Germany., Interdenominational cooperation--Germany., Missions--Interdenominational cooperation--Germany.Geographic subjects:Germany--Buildings, structures, etc., Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147289
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Title:Description:Private First Class A.C. Maynard, on patrol near a rubber plantation about 40 miles north of Saigon, keeps his Bible dry by strapping it to his helmet with an elastic band.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Maynard, A. C.Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Jungle warfare., Soldiers, Black--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh CityGeographic subjects:Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147155
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Title:Description:U.S. infantrymen pray in the Vietnam jungle, Dec. 9, during memorial services for comrades killed in the Michelin Rubber Plantation Battle.Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualities., Prayers for the dead--Vietnam., Soldiers--Vietnam.Geographic subjects:Bình Dương (Vietnam : Province)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147077
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Description:Hilfswerk worker welcomes disabled German war veterans to the home in the American zone.Creator:Thorkelson. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Missions--Interdenominational cooperation., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany., Disabled veterans--Germany., Humanitarian assistance, American--Germany.Geographic subjects:Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147004
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Description:Oliver Davis Collins, of Latham, New York (L), an United States Army Infantry Squad Leader who participated in liberating Dachau on April 29, 1945 talks with Julian Noga of Utica, New York a former slave laborer at Flossenburg Concentration Camp at an Albany Interfaith prayer service sponsored by the Polish-American Congress Central District of New York State. The occasion marks the 35th Anniversary of the liberation of Dachau.Creator:Saidel, Rochelle G. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Dachau (Concentration camp), Polish American Congress., Noga, Julian, -1921., Collins, Oliver D., Norden, Martin., Silton, Paul B.Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.Geographic subjects:Albany (N.Y.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146986
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Description:The Japanese Relocation Center in Manzanar, CA.Creator:Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)Subject names:Manzanar War Relocation Center.Topics:Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States., Incarceration camps--United States., Japanese Americans--Missions.Geographic subjects:Manzanar (Calif.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146378
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Title:Description:Campus Pepper, Vol. II, No. 1, September 28, 1943. Written and published bi-monthly by Manzanar High School journalism students at the Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Manzanar, California.Subject names:Oltmans, Sarah Clarke, 1889-1991--Archives., Manzanar War Relocation Center.Topics:Asian American students--Pacific Coast (U.S.), Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945., World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians., World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California., Japanese Americans--Missions., Student newspapers and periodicals--California--Manzanar., Japanese Americans--Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945., Incarceration camps--California.Geographic subjects:Manzanar (Calif.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146376
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Description:Blood petitions made by North Korean prisoners of war who did not want to return to Communist North Korea following the armistice in 1953. Features an explanatory letter written by Charles A. Anderson to Rev. Harold Voelkel, a chaplain to POWs during the war.Subject names:Anderson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1962., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.Topics:Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Prisoners of war--Korea., Fingerprints.Geographic subjects:Korea.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145118
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Title:Description:Plaque sent to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as an expression of appreciation to the church for missionaries who ministered to them in Prisoner of War camps during the Korean War. Metal from beer cans. Includes explanatory plastic sign: "Plaque made from tin cans by North Korean prisoners of war presented to the Board of Foreign Missions in appreciation of services of Chaplain Harold Voelkel."Subject names:Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.Topics:Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Church work with prisoners of war--Korea.Geographic subjects:Korea.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142509
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Title:Description:Plaque sent to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as an expression of appreciation to the church for missionaries who ministered to them in Prisoner of War camps during the Korean War. Metal from beer cans. Includes explanatory plastic sign: "Plaque made from tin cans by North Korean prisoners of war presented to the Board of Foreign Missions in appreciation of services of Chaplain Harold Voelkel."Subject names:Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.Topics:Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Church work with prisoners of war--Korea.Geographic subjects:Korea.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142508
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Title:Description:Plaque sent to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as an expression of appreciation to the church for missionaries who ministered to them in Prisoner of War camps during the Korean War. Metal from beer cans. Includes explanatory plastic sign: "Plaque made from tin cans by North Korean prisoners of war presented to the Board of Foreign Missions in appreciation of services of Chaplain Harold Voelkel."Subject names:Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.Topics:Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons., Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Church work with prisoners of war--Korea.Geographic subjects:Korea.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:142507
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Description:Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."Creator:Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)Topics:Civil rights--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116438
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Description:Interview conducted as part of Bauer's preparation of the report "An Historical Study of Past Denominational Responses to Social, Political and Economic Crises."Creator:Neigh, Kenneth Glenn, 1908-1996. (interviewee), Bauer, Richard Waldron, 1930- (interviewer)Topics:Vietnam War, 1961-1975., Civil rights--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116436
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Description:Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.Creator:Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)Topics:Persian Gulf War, 1991.Geographic subjects:Palestine., Iraq., Kuwait.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116408
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Description:Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.Creator:Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)Topics:Persian Gulf War, 1991.Geographic subjects:Kuwait., Iraq., Palestine.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116403
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Description:Peacemaking conference presentation by Bob Smylie and Palestinian human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab on the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.Creator:Smylie, Robert F. (Robert Frank), 1929- (speaker), Kuttāb, Jūnāthān. (speaker)Topics:Persian Gulf War, 1991.Geographic subjects:Kuwait., Iraq., Palestine.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116401
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Description:Dr. Johan Galtung, research fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, speaks at the International Peacemaking Consultation of Reformed Churches, Stony Point, May 17-21, 1987.Creator:Galtung, Johan Vincent, 1930- (speaker)Topics:Peace movements., War.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116395
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Description:Dr. Johan Galtung, research fellow at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, speaks at the International Peacemaking Consultation of Reformed Churches, Stony Point, May 17-21, 1987.Creator:Galtung, Johan Vincent, 1930- (speaker)Topics:Peace movements., War.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116393