Now known as the World Jewish Fund. Established in 1933 as the Central British Fund, the charity rescued over 100,000 Jewish people from Germany before WWII and was also largely responsible for organising the Kindertransport, bringing over 10,000 unaccompanied, mainly Jewish children, from Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief
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Kindertransport - Meisler
Such a sad and touching subject, these children can't fail but bring to mind ...
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St Olave Hart Street - church
Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street. Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here a...
3 memorials
St Mary Lambeth
A wooden church is recorded here in 1062. In the twelfth century a later stone church functioned as the church to the Archbishops' London lodgings next door, at Lambeth Palace. Largely rebuilt 185...
1 memorial
Rodney Smith
Evangelist. Born in a gipsy tent in Epping Forest, Wanstead. He began to hawk clothes pegs and tinware made by his father and became known as 'The Singing Gipsy Boy' because of his eagerness to sin...
1 memorial
Agnes George
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Dr Richard Price
Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French and America...
1 memorial
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