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Doreen Warriner
Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner
(16March 190417December 1972) was an English
development economist
and humanitarian. In October 1938, she journeyed to
Czechoslovakia
to assist anti-Nazi refugees fleeing the
Sudetenland
, recently occupied by
Germany
. She became the head of the
British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia
in
Prague
which helped 15,000 German, Czech, and Jewish refugees escape
Czechoslovakia
while the country was being occupied and annexed by
Nazi Germany
in 1938 and 1939. Told that she would be arrested by the Germans Warriner departed Czechoslovakia on 23 April 1939. She was awarded an OBE (
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
) in 1941. After the War, she was an academic at the
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
.
She was a
posthumous
recipient of the
British Hero of the Holocaust
award.
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Devil at My Heels. The Record of a Journey through Europe from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea in the Aftermath of War
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Warriner
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Doreen
Published in
International Affairs
(1948)
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