The US President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 12, 1956.
[1] The need for such a committee came about as a result of the United States' desire to provide for a share of the Hungarians who fled their country beginning in October 1956.
During this time, the Committee helped re-settle in the United States over 30,000 Hungarian refugees.
[2] The committee's small staff was funded from the Special Projects Group appropriation.
A portion of the committee's records are preserved in Voorhees' papers in Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University and are accessible online.