LITHUANIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY

In summer of 1944 the board of Lithuanian Red Cross Society (LRC) moved to Germany and in May 1945 reactivated their practices. The society's departments were established in all DP camps with higher number of lithuanians. A total of 85 divisions united 4710 members. General representatives were appointed to coordinate movements in the occupied zones. Aiming to expand the practice the LRC established a Supreme Women Committee, which consisted of 35 divisions.

Although nor UNRRA, nor IRO (International Refugee Organization) did not officially adjudicate LRC, they were yet obliged to collaborate. Since 1946 BALF ( United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America) worked alongside with LRC and pursued financial as well as material aid through it.

LRC financially supported students, nursing schools, hospitalized or temporary in poor circumstances stranded countrymen, who lost the protection of UNRRA or IRO. Material goods were divided by zones, depending on the number of persons there and their material situation. The Board of LRC was looking for ways to cumulate more resources, so it sought contacts with various relief organizations in Germany, also played a significant role in representing the Lithuanian situation to official UNRRA and IRO commissioners. LRC supervised that information would be placed in the press, also prepared and published an information publication “Hearken the Judge”.

Lietuvos Raudonojo Kryţiaus draugijos ástatymas ir Lietuvos Raudonojo Kryţiaus draugijos statutas
[Statute of Lithuanian Red Cross Society]. Tubingen, 1950
Lithuanian National Library A(LKA)93/950
Members of Lithuanian Society's and Lithuanian Red Cross Society's Flensburg chapter.
In: Dienos be tëvynës : Flensburgo lietuviř metrađtis [Chronicle of Flensburg Lithuanians]. Flensburg, 1946.
President of United American Lithuanian Fund (BALF) J.B. Končius with the members of Lithuanian Red Cross and (VLIK) in Schloss Lichtenđtein. 1950
Lithuanian Cultural Institute in Germany (LKI)
Congress of Lithuanian Red Cross representatives in Hanau.1946
Lithuanian Cultural Institute in Germany (LKI)
Bulletin of the Lithuanian Red Cross. Reutlingen, Nr. 5
Lithuanian National Library LD494
Pađilaitis, Juozas. Hearken then judge : sidelights on Lithuanian DPs. Tübingen, 1947
Lithuanian National Library C(LKA)angl.1/947