Letter from Herman Reissing to Elizabeth Jensen.
description: This letter is a part of series between Herman F. Ressig, the executive secretary of the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign, and Daniel & Elizabeth Jensen, American Friends who worked to assist Spanish Civil War refugees in Mexico. These letters are written at the end of and after the Spanish Civil War and they focus on activism surrounding refugees in Mexico and France and how the refugees might be evacuated from France to Mexico. Note how the letterhead features a mother and child. Children were used in fundraising as they were seen as non-partisan and indisputably worthy of protection. This letter, written in 1940, highlights the importance of fundraising for activism and finding resources to support relocation of the Spanish refugees. It also shows the amount of organizational cooperation that went into assisting Spanish exiles, and the difficulty of finding suitable situations for the thousands from Spain living in refugee camps in France.
source: Spanish Relief Campaign. Elizabeth Marsh Jensen Papers
date: Sept. 26, 1940
contributor: Richard Phillips
type: Letter