The Jewish Refugees Committee, later the German Jewish Aid Committee, was founded in the early months of 1933 by Otto Schiff under the aegis of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry (CBF). Schiff was founder and director. In 1995 the CBF was renamed as World Jewish Relief.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jewish Refugees Committee / German Jewish Aid Committee / World Jewish Relief
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Otto Schiff
Otto Schiff, CBE, 1875 - 1952, founder and director of the Jewish Refugees Co...
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Edith S. Kerrison
The first woman to serve on the West Ham council and an advocate of welfare for women and children. Was offered the Mayoralty but in view of her advancing years and increasing deafness she declined...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
1 memorial
Charles Hopton
Born into a wealthy merchant family and admitted as a child to the Guild of Fishmongers. His will provided for almshouses to be built in the parish of Christchurch, Blackfrars, for poor, single men...
2 memorials
Mr William Aviss
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
John Howard
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukrain...
2 memorials
Lady Isabella Somerset
President of the British Women's Temperance Association , 1890 - 1903, founded of the first industrial farm for inebriate women and set up a home for training workhouse children. Born in London as...
1 memorial
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