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Export of People and Goods
George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee in London, has long sought to arrange a meeting in Berlin to discuss facilitating the transfer of assets of Jewish emigrants. The Reich government is only [...]Rabbi Schneersohn’s Rescue
The rescue of Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, spiritual leader of a major denomination of Chassidic Judaism, is achieved thanks to the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, established by the Évian Conference.In [...]
Australia
* 8 September 1902 Melbourne † 3 July 1981 East MelbourneIn 1927, after attending the prestigious Scotch College and studying at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, Stirling joins the law firm of the [...]
Belgium
* 23 March 1893 Geraardsbergen † 15 August 1960 BrüsselRobert Herman Alfred de Foy is the son of the civil servant Léon de Foy, who is admitted to the nobility in 1934. After earning a doctorate in law, [...]
Haiti
* 5 June 1894 Gonaïves /Haiti † unknownGeorges Auguste Léon Robert Thébaud is born into a French aristocratic family originally from Brittany. He resides in northern Haiti, where he receives a [...]
Netherlands
* 12 January 1882 Surabaya † 19 May 1980Verwey is born in the Dutch East Indies, where his father works as a teacher. He studies civil engineering in Delft and joins the civil service in 1908 after working [...]
United States of America
* 9 March 1902 New York, NY † 2 August 1969 Bennington, VTAfter studying at Harvard and in Paris, and working as a journalist, Robert Pell becomes the private secretary to the US ambassador to France in [...]