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A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on April...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Édouard Theis Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Theis, Edouard
Overview
Édouard Theis was a missionary and teacher in Madagascar and the Cameroons, before joining the theology faculty at the University of Paris. As a pacifist and conscientious objector to war Theis resisted Nazi violence and racism during World War II. Along with André and Magda Trocmé, Theis and his wife, Mildred, co-founded the Collège Cévenol in 1938. Theis taught French, German, and Greek, and his wife taught there as well. Theis also served as the college's first [second?] director until his...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1947-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
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- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 1
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- Theis, Édouard, 1899- 1
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