Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940

Identifier
MS 415
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

217 items in 2 boxes

Biographical History

Leeds Academic Assistance Committee was founded in 1933 by John Harry Jones, Professor of Economics, and others, to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany. The Committee sponsored three scholars: Dr Robert Bloch, a Jewish botanist, who was enabled to emigrate to the United States; Dr Boris Kaufmann, a Jewish mathematician, who went to Cambridge; and Dr Lothar Richter, a Lutheran and civil servant, who went to Canada as an expert on unemployment.

Acquisition

Gift of the School of Economic Studies, through Professor J.R. Crossley, December 1976

Scope and Content

Correspondence, memoranda and other papers of the Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, 1933-1940, founded to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

Access is unrestricted

Finding Aids

Related Units of Description

  • See also MS 446

Note(s)

  • In English

Sources

  • Leeds University Library

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