Margarete Schurgast papers, 1918-1945 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Margarete Schurgast papers contain correspondence; writings, including a European travel diary in German (1924, 1941); legal and identification documents; printed matter concerning the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Carrie Chapman Catt, and Karin Michaëlis, and clippings about Schurgast; photographs of both Schurgast and her friend Ellen Key; and one file of materials concerning Alexander Deutsch, a German émigré and friend. Schurgast's correspondence, mainly in German, reflects her status and concerns as a refugee, and documents her attempts to obtain the release of Eugenie Friedlander, held in Theresienstadt concentration camp