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...captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee to enroll in Radcliffe, The Crimson reported in February 1939. Kurt M. Hertzfeld ’41 was also sponsored by Harvard. Then an 18-year-old refugee, Hertzfeld traveled from Austria in 1937 to avoid military conscription. Alone with...
Miss Rahel Kestenberg of Prague, Czechoslovakia, first Jewish refugee to reach Radcliffe, arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. She is entering Radcliffe as a Junior and will remain for two years to study American History and Psychology...
...Miss Kestenberg stated that she polished her English seeing American moving pictures, especially those of Robert Taylor...
...Mussolini is planning great reforms in the Italian opera houses [TIME, Sept. 6]. The Ministry of Culture in Berlin has created a special music department in which Dr. Leo Kestenberg is doing important work. "I have heard from leading artists in Central Europe that there is talk of an organized effort to prevent the exodus of the best artists...
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