Gallery“The White House”
The "White House" of Esslingen is marked with a signboard "UNRRA Team 208."
From this building come all the important orders, bulletins, notifications and regulations concerning food rations, welfare activities, preservation of health, organization of work details, etc., as well as letters of praise, thanks, reprimands and punishments. People come and go here like busy bees carrying smaller or bigger parcels of requests and statements of their needs. Mr. R. Pinczon du Sel, director of UNRRA Team 208, calmly and patiently considers all the requests. Having thought each problem over, where to draw the line between what is allowed and prohibited,the possible and impossible, the plans to be fostered or subdued, he makes one just decision after another. His hard-working assistants diligently concentrate their efforts on figuring out how to carry-out the various suggestions and projects.
Ever since Director R. Pinczon du Sel arrived in Esslingen and started supervising the administration of Team 208, he also gave to the Latvians themselves the possibility of developing their initiative to find ways and means to overcome the various difficulties of daily life. He agreed to the idea that an administrative body from among the Latvians should be formed in this Assembly Centre.
