Schurgast, Margarete, b. 1871.
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Margarete Schurgast, born in Berlin, Germany in 1871, was a boardinghouse owner and Jewish feminist and pacifist who fled Nazi rule in 1941, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In Germany Schurgast co-founded the Aid Society for Educated Women, and was an active member of the WILPF and the League for Human Rights. She was a friend and correspondent of Carrie Chapman Catt, Karin Michaëlis, and Rosika Schwimmer.
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World War, 1939-1945
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