Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Leeds Academic Assistance Committee, correspondence, memoranda and other papers, 1933-1940
Classmark: MS 415
Date(s): 1933-1940
Language: English
Size and medium: 217 items in 2 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5105
Description
These papers were discovered in a cupboard in the School of Economic Studies and were presented to the Library through the good offices of Professor J R Crossley, in December 1976.
The Leeds Academic Assistance Committee was founded in 1933 through the initiative of Professor J H Jones (Economics) and others to collect funds for the support of academic refugees from Nazi Germany so that they might continue their studies in England or elsewhere. The Committee was an independent venture at first but was subsequently reorganised as a local branch of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (formerly the Academic Assistance Committee in London). The Leeds Committee sponsored three scholars - Dr. Robert Bloch, a Jewish botanist from Rostock who was enabled to emigrate to the United States; Dr Boris Kaufmann, a Jewish mathematician from Heidelberg who soon went to Cambridge, and Dr Lothar Richter, a Lutheran and civil servant from Berlin who subsequently had a distinguished academic career in Canada as an expert on unemployment.
The unprinted documents listed below are all typescript (top copy or carbon or duplicated) and comprise one folio unless otherwise stated. Where the sender or recipient of an individual letter is not noted it should be assumed to have been the LAAC Secretariat (principally Mrs. Gwen Cartwright).
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Biography or 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.
System of arrangement
The MS 415 catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1979. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.
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