Trapp Family Austrian Relief
The Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc. is an humanitarian organization founded in 1947 by the Trapp family (made famous for American film '' the Melody of happiness '') to come to assistance of the people suffering from hunger in Austria. The seat of the organization is with Stowe (Vermont), with the the United States.
In January 1947, the American general Harry J. Hakes, which had been military governor with Salzburg of the Western part of Austria after the Second world war, returns visit to the Trapp family. It describes for them the suffering of the Austrians following the war. The Trapp family reacts spontaneously by melting Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc. ( assistance in Austria of the family Trapp ), and the sending of food and clothing will organize. As a founder, Georg von Trapp is named first president, Maria von Trapp is the president and Monseigneur Dr. Franz Wasner, the treasurer.
“The Nation, which offered to this world Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and “Douce night, holy night ( Stille Nacht )”, will crumble if we do not help it all together. Everyone is with the current of the conditions which reign in the large European countries, but little can think what occurs to Austria where the population is losing courage and hope. ” - Trapp Family: Call fact at the time of their concerts
The September 29th 2007 the Prix Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer will be decreed in Tizzy von Trapp-Walker in the name of the Trapp family with Braunau amndt In.
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