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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Samaritans
Formed by Chad Varah at St Stephen Walbrook Church to befriend the suicidal and despairing. The Samaritans gives a good history of the organisation including how it was named: "Chad Varah had achi...
2 memorials
Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust
Housing action trusts were non-departmental public bodies, set up to redevelop some of the poorest council housing estates in England's inner-city suburbs.
1 memorial
Sailors' Home - Ensign Street & Dock Street
A group of philanthropists, led by Rev. George Charles ‘Boatswain’ Smith (1782–1863) founded the Destitute Sailors' Asylum in 1827, based in a converted warehouse in Dock Street and providing shelt...
1 memorial
The Engine Room
From their website: "The Engine Room helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact."
1 memorial
Mr J Minchin
Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
1 memorial
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