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Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner, OBE (Long Compton, 16 marzo 1904 – 17 dicembre 1972), è stata un'economista britannica nota principalmente per il suo operato nel salvataggio dei rifugiati poco prima dello scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale.
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.
Doreen Warriner was awarded an OBE in 1941 "for services in 1938 and 1939 in connection with refugees leaving Czechoslovakia". She was also involved in humanitarian missions to Yugoslavia and Egypt. She continued her academic career following the war, becoming a leading authority on peasant economies, and (like Sir Nicholas Winton, as he became ...
18 mag 2019 · Doreen Warriner was awarded an OBE in January 1941, but it seems she never talked about her extraordinary humanitarian effort. She continued her successful academic career, eventually becoming...
Professor Doreen Warriner OBE was one of the very courageous leading women who went to Prague in 1938 to assist Social Democrat and Jewish refugees fleeing the advance of Nazism. For this she was awarded an OBE in 1941.
30 apr 2019 · A plaque to the previously little-known Doreen Warriner has just been unveiled in Prague. The Englishwoman saved the lives of hundreds of people by helping them escape to the UK just before...
13 dic 2023 · Doreen Warriner was a development economics professor at the School between 1938 and 1966 and interrupted her academic activities to travel to Prague to help refugees escape from the Nazi-occupied city. Her voluntary work earned her an OBE.
