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Sources Guide: Refugee Scientists and Medical Practitioners
Papers of refugee doctors/scientists
Institutions
Other individuals
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Papers of refugee doctors/scientists
Professor Edith BÜLBRING, MD, MA, FRS (1903-1990) PP/BUL
Came to England in 1933 after being dismissed from a research post in Berlin because of her Jewish background. Collection relates to her career in England between 1938 and 1981 and her research on the physiology and pharmacology of smooth muscle (visceral or involuntary muscle), a field in which she became a leading authority. Includes cassettes of interviews with her about her
family and early life in Germany and her later refugee status (A.4-5)
Professor Sir Ernst Boris CHAIN, FRS (1906-1979) PP/EBC
Left Berlin in 1933: large collection of this Nobel Prize-winning scientist includes correspondence re his own departure from Berlin, and correspondence with and about Jewish refugees, National Council for Soviet Jewry, etc, 1930s-70s
Sigmund Heinrich FOULKES (formerly Fuchs) FRCPsych (1898-1976) PP/SHF
Came to Britain from Frankfurt in 1933; papers of his career as psychoanalyst and pioneer of group analytic psychotherapy
Rudolph Karl FREUDENBERG MD, FRCPsych, DPM (1908-1983) and Gerda (née Vorster) MD (1906-1995) FREUDENBERG PP/RKF
In 1935 they both lost their jobs in Berlin, and moved to Vienna, before coming to the UK in 1937 and 1938 respectively: papers related to his lengthy career in psychiatry both as the Medical Superintendent of Netherne Hospital and on various policy-making bodies, 1930s-70s
Alfred GLUCKSMANN MD (1904-1985) GC/91
Emigrated to the UK in 1933, associated for many years with Strangeways Research Laboratory (q.v.). Small collection including diaries (on microfilm) 1930-48; correspondence relating to his leaving of Germany
Professor Hans GRÜNEBERG FRS (1907–1982) PP/GRU
Geneticist, invited to come to University College London in 1933 by JBS Haldane after being dismissed from his post in Germany; correspondence with colleagues, friends, and organisations and institutions, 1922–82
Sir Ludwig GUTTMAN CBE, FRS, FRCP, FRCS (1899-1980) PP/GUT
Came to work in Oxford in 1939: material relating to his previous career in Germany, 1914-39, and subsequently in the UK at Stoke Mandeville making pioneering advances in the treatment and rehabilitation of paraplegics, the inception of sport for the disabled, etc 1940s-70s
Dr Egon KODICEK FRS (1908-82) GC/65
Fled from Czechoslovakia in 1939, to Cambridge where he worked in the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory until 1973; some biographical items but small collection, 1930s-80s, consists mainly of research material
William (Wilhelm) Guenter Paul KRAEMER FRCPsych (1911-1983) GC/23
Left Germany in 1933 to study in Siena, later practised in Edinburgh and London. Notebooks from his period in Siena, c. 1930s
Alfred MODEL (1906-1979) GP/50
Born in Freiburg, Germany, studied medicine at Freiburg and Heidelburg, graduating MD in 1932. Came to England in 1933, where he practised as a GP in Stockport, also working in child guidance. Small group of papers, 1939-68
Dr Frederick ('Freddie') MORGAN, formerly MORGENBESSER (b. 1912) GP/58/1
Transcript of interview, 2000, with Dr Stefan Cembrowicz. Born of German-Jewish parentage in Brno, now in the Czech Republic, then part of Moravia, Dr Morgan left in 1939 at the time of the Nazi invasion and came to Britain. After service in the RAMC during the War, he went into general practice in Bristol
Walter T U PAGEL MD, FRCPath, FBA (1898-1983) PP/PAG
Left Germany in 1933: pathologist and medical historian; biographical items and correspondence with colleagues and other refugees, 1920s-80s
Professor Janos PLESCH MD (1878-1958) GC/32
Emigrated from Berlin to England in 1933. Small group of correspondence, mainly with J M Keynes, 1939-46
Carl PRAUSNITZ-GILES (1876-1963) GC/33
Came to England in 1933 from Breslau: bacteriologist and immunologist; small group of papers, 1930-66
Milosh SEKULICH MD (1900-1986) GC/94
Fled from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to London in 1941. Some autobiographical material but papers relate chiefly to his work on tuberculosis, 1930s-60s
Marthe VOGT (1903-2003) PP/MLV
Vogt came to England in 1935 on a Rockefeller Fellowship but had no intention of returning to Nazi Germany. Papers relate predominantly to her work in pharmacology, neurophysiology and neuropharmacology, and some on her family, 1920s-80s
Institutions
BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY SA/BIO
Files on Egon Kodicek, Sir Hans Krebs, Max Perutz, George Popják
EUGENICS SOCIETY SA/EUG
A few files re refugees in general, organisations for the assistance of scientific refugees, and on individual refugees including R E Elkan, Max Hodann, Dora Ilse, W Mayer-Gross, 1930s
Access only with permission of the Galton Institute
PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information
LISTER INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTIVE MEDICINE SA/LIS
A number of refugees from Nazi Germany were employed in research at the Lister Institute from the 1930s
STRANGEWAYS RESEARCH LABORATORY SA/SRL
Provided research posts for a number of refugees during the 1930s; also contains some material on Belgian refugees during World War I. The archive includes papers of C Robinow, 1930s-40s, and E Brieger, 1950s-60s and n.d., as well as correspondence with and relating to other refugee scientists.
Other individuals
Dame Honor FELL FRS (1900-1986) PP/HBF
Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory (q.v.) during the 1930s and 40s; also active in the Society for Protection of Science and Learning, 1939-56, and files on this are preserved among her papers
Carl Gustav JUNG (1875-1961) MS.8088
Correspondence with H Godwin Baynes, 1936-40, includes arrangements for German Jewish refugees to attend international congress, and soliciting Baynes's assistance in arranging emigration for an individual
Sir Thomas LEWIS (1881–1945): file of testimonials and correspondence re refugee European medical scientists and practititioners, 1938–9 PP/LEW/A.4
Charles Joseph SINGER FRCP (1876-1960) and Dorothea Waley SINGER (née Cohen) (1882-1964) PP/CJS
Historians of medicine and science. Papers include Refugees Joint Consultative Commitee circulars, 1939-48, and other papers on Jewish refugees
Frederick Gordon SPEAR (1895-1980) PP/FGS
Deputy Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory (q.v): collection includes historical material on the Laboratory during the 1930s and 40s
There is, additionally, material on the effects of war on civilian populations in several other collections. Material in the Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection, RAMC includes Sir Alexander Drummond’s papers re Polish refugees in Middle East, RAMC 2008/6.
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