Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
54 (2009) 243-271
Keywords:
Schiff, Otto
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
German born, but naturalized in Britain in 1901, Otto Schiff was active in philanthropic and community work on behalf of Jewish refugees during the two World Wars, as well as in the interwar period. In 1933 he became the chairman of the German Jewish Refugee Committee (from 1936 the German Jewish Aid Committee), and in this capacity he succeeded in helping thousands of refugees from Germany and German-annexed Austria. He was instrumental in the admittance of some of the passengers of the "St. Louis" to Britain in June 1939. During the war, one of the main concerns of GJAC was providing exemptions to refugees interned as "enemy aliens". Dismisses contemporary and postwar accusations against Schiff that his organization was tardy and administratively inefficient, and that he himself was reluctant to help anybody but solidly middle-class refugees.
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