Catalogue description Wolff, Mrs Helga

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Details of 8SUF/B/169
Reference: 8SUF/B/169
Title: Wolff, Mrs Helga
Description:

How she first met Eleanor Rathbone, via Erna Nelki (qv). What Eleanor Rathbone looked like on first meeting, in 1941. Elizabeth Macadam's management of the domestic side made single-mindedness possible. Eleanor shrewd in the areas she understood, but surprisingly gullible elsewhere. Importance of discretion in a secretary dealing with Eleanor's refugee work. How Eleanor helped to get government aid, via contacts with R A Butler, for her to train as a teacher. How Eleanor's secretarial arrangements were organised in the early 1940s. How the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees gradually broadened its functions. Exiguous funds, lack of staff, pressure of work. Eleanor's help to Mrs W even after leaving Eleanor's employment, e.g. over naturalisation. Mrs Schaerli's filing system in the refugee office. (Continues onto tape 64).
Date: 31 Aug 1977
Held by: London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: Tape 63
Language: English

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