social work internationally post 1945the worldwide conflict of 1939 - 1945 had a major impact on the development of social work. Not only were individual social workers caught up in the conflict in many different ways, but the course of development of the profession as a whole was affected. Among the many individual stories of that time are exam - ples such as that of the founder of the school of social Work at the university of Warsaw, Helena Radlinska, whose own house as well as the school buildings were destroyed; two-thirds of her colleagues also were killed ( Healy, 2008b, p. 6). These event of destruction and loss were repeated in different ways in many places. At the same time social workers also played positive roles embody-ing values that have come to be seen as core to the profession, such as Irena Sendler who, amongst many others, worked at personal risk to protect the lives of Jewish children in the middle of the Holocaust (Wieler, 2006) Social work was also part of the post-war reconstruction. At a national level, in different countries, social workers participated in the rebuilding of social infrastructure. Internationally, too, social work played an important post-war role. For example, the ICSSW ( as it still was until 1955 ) was involved from the earliest days in the fledgeling United Nations (UN).It was granted consultative status with the economic and social council ( ECOSOC ) in 1947 and the various organization that grew from the ICSSW and the Permanent Secre-tariat ( IASSW, ICSW and IFSW ) have maintained
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