This Is Your Life: Evelyn Bark

Evelyn BARK OBE (1900-1993)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Evelyn Bark, Director of International Affairs for the Red Cross, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

Evelyn joined the British Red Cross at the outbreak of the Second World War, initially undertaking voluntary duties in a London maternity hospital. She later joined the Foreign Relations department which assisted civilians across Europe to communicate with relatives anywhere in the world via the International Red Cross Tracing Agency in Geneva.

At the end of the war Evelyn established a tracing service for missing persons, and as one of the first to enter Belsen concentration camp with the Red Cross team, helped make it possible for camp survivors to be reunited with families and friends. She went on to hold several posts within the organisation, including Commissioner in Germany, Foreign Relations Adviser, and Director of International Affairs. Her organisational ability and gift for friendship and sympathetic understanding of different cultures, earned her a world-wide reputation.

programme details...

Edition No: 242
Subject No: 241
Broadcast date: Thu 23 Jan 1964
Broadcast time: 8.50-9.15pm
Recorded: Mon 9 Dec 1963 8.00pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 9
Edition: 16

on the guest list...

George Mikes
Nora McGuinness
Arthur Auren
Daphne Lockyer
Henrietta the skeleton
Liliane Manteau
Baron Jan de Geer
Hennie Smend
Rudolf Smend
Lady Limerick
Fred Bark – brother

production team...

Directors: Michael Goodwin, Mark Patterson
Producer: Vere Lorrimer
Executive Producer: T Leslie Jackson

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