Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will look at some of the encounters the women of UNRRA had with the occupying armies and with the displaced persons (this was a new word at the time) who became their responsibility within days of the war’s end. Like their male colleagues, they were faced with a massive human catastrophe: millions of workers whom the Germans had enslaved during the war were liberated and on their own, the death toll of the concentration camps was registered as small groups of Jewish survivors returned, and larger numbers of Jews drifted into the U.S. and British zones to escape from the virulent anti-Semitism in their countries of origin.