History at the Hub - The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration with Sharif Gemie
сб, 27 лип.
|Newport
The work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the 1940s. With Sharif Gemie, author of 'The Displaced'.
Time & Location
27 лип. 2024 р., 14:00 – 14:40
Newport, 170 Commercial St, Newport NP20 1JN, UK
About the Event
Sharif Gemie will be giving a talk on the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which opperated in the 1940s, introducing the UNRRA's mission, covering the lives of the workers and actions they took during the second world war.
Following from this, he'll be talking is through his novel, The Displaced, which concerns a British couple who volunteer to work for UNRRA in 1945.
Bydd Sharif Gemie rhoi darlith ar y gwaith o'r United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration a weithredodd yn y 1940's, gan cyflwyno'r cenhadaeth UNRRA, gorchuddi'r bywyd o'r gweithwyr a gweithredoedd yn ystod yr ail rhyfel byd. Yn dilyn hyn, bydd yn siarad trwy ei nofel, 'The Displaced', am ynghylch cwpl Prydain sy'n gwirfoddolwr am y UNRRA yn 1945.