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British civilian worked with refugees in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939. Organised Women's Section of Friend's Ambulance Unit in GB, 1940-1941
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REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background in Yorkshire. Recollections of life in GB, 1914-1930s: memories of First World War; knowledge of Conscientious Objectors during 1WW; attitude towards 1WW; attitude towards possibility of career; social work in London. Recollections of work with Friends in Vienna and Prague, 1938-1939: contacts with Dr Anna Selig in Vienna; helping Dr Selig to leave country in 1938; impressions of Hitler; helping refugees in Vienna including writer Felix Salten; impressions of Goebbels; work of Quaker organisations with refugees.
REEL 2 Continues: situation for refugees in Czechoslovakia, 1938; transporting refugees through Poland to Gydnia; difficulties of obtaining papers for refugees; seizure of many papers by Germans on entry into Prague, early 1939; story of tearing up passports and papers and flushing them down lavatory; types of refugees (Jewish, Sudeten Czechs etc); risks taken to help refugees; attitude towards British policy of appeasement; morale among Czech people; smuggling valuables out of country for various Jewish people; co-operation between representatives of various organisations working in Europe.
REEL 3 Continues: attempts of Jewish organisation to get Jews to Palestine; helping Anna Selig to escape to Switzerland; opinion of film, 'Schindler's List'; question of whether non-Jews falsified race in order to escape; question of recognition of work of Quakers. Recollections of work in France, Turkey and UK, 1939-1945: reaction to outbreak of war, 9/1939; work with refugees from Alsace Lorraine in France; move to Turkey to help earthquake victims, 1940; returning to GB; being asked to form women's section of Friends Ambulance Unit; work of FAU and Friends Relief Service.
REEL 4 Continues: father's (Arnold Rowntree) role in reformation of FAU, 1939; nature of her pacifist beliefs; role of George Newman in organising work for FAU; memories of Paul Cadbury; decision by FAU to form a women's section; attitude towards FAUs suggestion that women's section should be run separately from the men's; setting up training camp, Barmoor, Yorkshire; nature of training; maturity and experienced nature of women joining FAU.
REEL 5 Continues: lack of Quaker recruits; question of whether FAU recruits needed to be pacifists; question of why women joined FAU; question of help from male section of FAU attitude towards bureaucracy at Friends House; type of work give to women in FAU; class background of recruits; winding down of recruitment of women to FAU; selection of women to work overseas; contacts with FAU women once they had finished training; question of uniform; question of pay.
REEL 6 Continues: question of women's contribution to FAU; marriage to John Cadbury; formation of Allied Women's Training Courses; working with Czech, Polish and French women to prepare them for return to home countries; knowledge of Bundles for Britain campaign. Aspects of life post-war: move to US with husband; attitude towards having to renounce British background to obtain US citizenship; pacifist beliefs today