Jacob Trobe, who died last Wednesday at age 93, helped resettle Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in the wake of World War II.

Assigned to Germany on behalf of the American Joint Distribution Committee in 1945, Trobe was the first representative of a Jewish relief organization to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In the chaotic early days after the war, even getting adequate food to survivors was difficult.

Having lost their homes, many Jews were forced to stay in the very camps where they had been held prisoner. On October 1, 1945, Trobe was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying, “In General Patton’s realm in Bavaria places can be found with signs forbidding displaced persons to enter towns.”

Not surprisingly, many of the surviving Jews in Germany wished to emigrate, and Trobe helped them to locate relatives in other countries. He later coordinated relief efforts in Italy and had shorter assignments on behalf of survivors in Luxembourg, Libya, and Turkey.

Trobe’s work in Europe ended in 1948. In 1968, he traveled to Vietnam to assess the condition of refugees for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Trobe grew up in Beaver Falls, Pa., and studied at the Jewish Social Works School in New York. He was director of the Jewish Children’s Home for Essex County (N.J.) until 1944. Af ter his experience with war refugees, Trobe continued to work with Jewish agencies in the New York area, retiring in 1977 as executive vice president of the Jewish Child Care Association of New York.

In retirement, Trobe took classes at the New York Law School and became interested in communications technology. He initiated a series of 434 videotaped interviews with experts in the field that were archived at the law school’s media center.

After moving to Haverford, Pa., he helped set up computer classes in his retirement community and organized a series of “cabaret nights” for relatives.

Trobe is survived by a daughter, Toni, a son, Robert, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.