Rutgers and the President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief

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James Niessen will talk about the digitization of Rutgers' Hungarian refugee relief papers on adding records from other repositories to the digital collection. The President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief oversaw the processing of 32,000 refugees from Hungary at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey in 1956-1957. Rutgers' collection of the papers of Tracy S. Voorhees contains a key portion of the records of the committee. We have digitized these records and made them freely accessible online. We also hope to add related records from other repositories to this virtual collection.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
James P. Niessen (Photo: Courtesy of Rutgers Today)World History Librarian
Alexander Library - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
BA in History, Notre Dame, 1975
MA and PhD in History, Indiana, 1979 and 1989 MLIS, U of Texas at Austin, 1994
Librarian for History and Foreign Languages at Texas Tech, 1994-2001
World History Librarian at Rutgers since 2001
Author of 15 articles on Hungarian and Romanian history, many with a focus on modern Transylvania
Director of the Institute for Hungarian History at Rutgers, 2010-2011