• Passport photograph of Herbert S. Gott (1887–1954); he served as an American YMCA WPA Secretary in Russia during World War I and transferred to Narva to support the POW exchange program during the repatriation process and assist refugees in Estonia. Source: YMCA Biographical Records, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota.

Source: YMCA Biographical Records, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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