Trees and Life for Vietnam Records

This collection is comprised of photographs, pamphlets, clippings and personal correspondence from Trees and Life for Vietnam. It is a one file collection. The collection contains photographs and clippings of an unknown meeting that took place with Vietnamese officials and a Trees and Life for Vietnam representative, postcards and a bank book and several pamphlets. There is a small biography of Toby Brooks attached to the North Viet delegation clipping. The postcards were sent by or to Toby Brooks. The bank book shows the remaining balance in the Trees and Life for Vietnam account when closed in 1990. The pamphlet is promotional material used by the organization to solicit donations from the public. There are four newsletters in the collection – two from the organization, one sent to the organization and one published after the organization ended. The first one from the organization, called the People’s Peace Treaty in the newsletter at the time, states that the B’nai B’rith Hillel Federation of Boston endorsed the People’s Peace Treaty. The second one states the political position of the PPT. The Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation to Paris sent a newsletter to Trees and Life for Vietnam to highlight what—in terms of relief aide—had been done and was still needed to be done in each Vietnamese province. The last newsletter—sent in 1990 by a Vietnam veteran to Toby Brooks—shows how this veteran continued the work of Trees and Life for Vietnam many years later. Much of the correspondence is letters to and from Toby Brooks—dealing with the finances of Trees and Life for Vietnam, a Vietnamese orphanage and a sponsorship of a Vietnamese student in a Canadian university. Included are letters from another member of Trees and Life For Vietnam, Rabbi Robinson and the Jewish Peace Fellowship. Four correspondences exist in the collection not affiliated with Toby Brooks. Three of them deal with Trees and Life for Vietnam finances. Two are from the Mid-Atlantic Federation of Temple Youth and one is from a group only identified by the address 2111 Florida Avenue, Washington D.C. The remaining correspondence is from a Vietnamese man thanking Rabbi Robinson for his donation of $2000.