Přemysl Pitter Collection
Abstract
Includes correspondence, pamphlets and typescripts.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1926-1954
Biographical / Historical
Přemysl Pitter; b. 1895; Czech 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.
Extent
0.025 Linear Feet (0.3 linear inches)
Language
Czech
General Note
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of Přemysl Pitter.
Subject
- Pitter, Přemysl, 1895-1976 (Person)
- Pitter, Přemysl, 1895-1976 (Person)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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