The Second World War and aftermath
French Quaker Relief, 1945
From 1940 a new Friends War Victims Relief Committee, which, after 1943, became Friends Relief Service (FRS), operated in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Austria, and Poland. In 1945 it followed the Western Allies into war-torn Europe to bring relief to the suffering. The Friends Ambulance Unit, first founded in the First World War and revived in 1939, also joined in the relief program in the Middle East, India, China, and northwestern Europe, its work in China and India being continued later by Friends Service Units. The FAU operated independently of the Society of Friends and recruited both Quakers and non-Quakers - many pacifists and conscientious objectors of varied beliefs served in the units.
Friends Relief Workers, 1945 Bochum,1945
Caen, 1945
