Fritz Segall was born on August 27, 1901. He was a journalist and member of the Socialist Party of Germany. In 1935 he became head of the Jüdische Künstlerhilfe (Jewish Artists' Aid) of Berlin, also frequently known as the Künstlerhilfe der jüdischen Gemeinde (Artists' Aid of the Jewish Community) of Berlin. This organization assisted Jewish artists in emigrating from Germany. In the spring of 1939 Fritz and Dora Segall immigrated to England. Fritz Segall, like many German Jews, was interned as an "enemy alien" while his wife worked for a Jewish refugee committee. Both Fritz and Dora Segall continued to be active in political work after the war; in 1950 Fritz Segall became chairman of the Vereinigung deutscher Sozialdemokraten in Großbritannien (Union of German Social Democrats in Great Britain). Dora Segall came to work for the Leo Baeck Institute London, assisting in editorial and research work.
(Due to the lack of biographical data in this collection, a few details in this biographical note were derived from the article Der Mensch ist meist kein Held by Stefan Appellius, available online at this location .)
From the guide to the Dora Segall Material, 1927-1992, bulk 1935-1941, (Leo Baeck Institute)
