Collection, 1931-1954.
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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.
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Pitter, Přemysl, 1895-1976.
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Přemysl Pitter; Christian pacifist, educator; educated poor children in Czechoslovakia; sheltered Jewish children from the Nazis; after World War II, educated Czech, Jewish, and German refugee children together; forced to leave Czechoslovakia in 1951 because of refusal to conform to Communist ideology; fled to Germany, where he opened Camp Valka; later lived in Switzerland, where he died in 1976; assisted in his efforts by a Swiss educational theorist, Olga Fierz. From the descripti...