Doreen Warriner

Doreen Warriner
OBE
Doreen Warriner (1940s)
Born
Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner

16 March 1904
Long Compton, Warwickshire
Died17 December 1972 (aged 68)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Economist, scholar
Known forRescuing anti-Nazi Czech refugees
Memorial plaque to Warriner in Prague (unveiled in April 2019)[1]

Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner OBE (16 March 1904 – 17 December 1972) was an English development economist and humanitarian. In October 1938, she journeyed to Czechoslovakia to assist anti-Nazi refugees fleeing the Sudetenland, recently occupied by Germany. She became the head of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia in Prague which helped 15,000 German, Czech, and Jewish refugees escape Czechoslovakia while the country was being occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and 1939. Told that she would be arrested by the Germans Warriner departed Czechoslovakia on 23 April 1939. She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1941.[2][3] After the War, she was an academic at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.[4]

She was a posthumous recipient of the British Hero of the Holocaust award.

  1. ^ Text of Czech Broadcast, 05/18/2019.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Winton, Barbara (21 May 2014). "My father, 'the British Schindler'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. ^ Oldfield, Sybil. "Warriner, Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia (1904–1972), rescuer of refugees and development economist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 11 Jan. 2024.