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Eighty years ago today, The New York Times reported on the founding of an organization that would grow into today's International Rescue Committee. The committee was formed in 1933 at the suggestion of Albert Einstein to assist Germans suffering under Hitler.
Eighty years ago today, The New York Times reported on the formation of an organization that would grow to become the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
An American branch of the European-based International Relief Association was founded in 1933 at the suggestion of German-born physicist Albert Einstein to assist those suffering under Hitler.
Eight decades later, the IRC continues to respond to the world’s worst humanitarian crises. We work in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S.