Doreen Warriner

Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner OBE (16 March 1904 – 17 December 1972) was a development economist known chiefly for her role in rescuing refugees just before World War II.[1][2]

Memorial plaque to Warriner in Prague (unveiled in April 2019)

In December 1938, Warriner started her work in Prague as a British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (BCRC) representative. However, her active role in rescuing refugees alerted the Gestapo and she left Prague on 22 April 1939. She worked for the Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain and Egypt and during 1944–46, headed the food supply division of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Yugoslavian mission. She was awarded the title Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1942. She died on 17 December 1972 after suffering a stroke.[3]

References

1. Grenville, Anthony (April 2011). "Doreen Warriner, Trevor Chadwick and the 'Winton children'" (PDF). Association of Jewish Refugees Journal. 11 (4): 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
2. Winton, Barbara (21 May 2014). "My father, 'the British Schindler'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
3. Cohen, Susan (August 2011). "Winter in Prague': The humanitarian mission of Doreen Warriner". Association of Jewish Refugees Journal. 11 (8): 4–5. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

Further reading

• Chadwick, William (2010). The Rescue of the Prague Refugees 1938–39. Troubador Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84876-504-7.
• "Warriner, Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65817. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)