Records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) (previously the Academic Assistance Council (AAC))
Extent and Medium
1 microfilm reel, 35 mm
1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- John Akker
Archival History
Bodleian Library
Acquisition
Records created by the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) (previously named the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning). The main bulk of their collection is held by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in Great Britain. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the International Program Division in April 2008, and three accretions in 2011.
Scope and Content
Contains records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) relating to assistance to academics fleeing the Fascist regimes in Europe between 1933-1955. Contains also administrative and financial files, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence with international and local refugee organizations, records assisting interned refugees, as well as a sample of personal files of scholars assisted by the Society. Includes name lists of scholars in various disciplines from many European countries.
System of Arrangement
Organization is thematic.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
Subjects
- Scholars--Europe--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Refugee assistance groups (ushmm)
- Children -- Humanitarian assistance -- Associations, institutions, etc
- Jewish committees (ushmm)
Genre
- Questionnaires.
- Document