Fischer, Greta.

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Greta Fischer (formerly Grete Fischerova) was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who spent the years of World War II in London. In Jun 1945, she entered Germany as a member of UNRRA team 182 to study and work with lost, unaccompanied, and orphaned children. She served at the First International Children's center, which she set up at the former orphan asylum Kloster-Indersdorf in the suburbs of Munich. In 1948 she brought a group of children from Marseille to Toronto, and subsequently worked in Montreal as a social worker. Ms. Fischer died in Israel.

From the description of Greta Fischer papers relating to Kloster-Indersdorf displaced children's center and to UNRRA's postwar work in Europe letters reports name lists photographs map memoranda. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 122515652

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Kloster-Indersdorf (Germany : Displaced persons camp)
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Displaced persons
Displaced persons camps
Emigration and immigration
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Refugees
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