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Gerda Mayer, the Glossary

Gerda Kamilla Mayer (9 June 1927 – 15 July 2021) was an English poet.^[1]

52 relations: Aldeburgh Festival, Auschwitz concentration camp, Austria, Bedford College, London, Bertha Bracey, Birkbeck, University of London, Boarding school, British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, British nationality law, Carol Ann Duffy, Channel 5 (British TV channel), Chatto & Windus, Chingford, Croydon Airport, Czechoslovakia, Doreen Warriner, Dorset, Eastern Front (World War II), Elaine Feinstein, Greenwood Publishing Group, Hakhshara, Haslemere, Home Office, Jews, Karlovy Vary, Kibbutz, Kindertransport, Lviv, Mandatory Palestine, Nicholas Winton, Nikolaus Pevsner, Nisko Plan, Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945), Odveig Klyve, Oxford University Press, Peter Porter (poet), Pevsner Architectural Guides, Poetry Book Society, Prague, Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Quakers, Self-pity, Stoatley Rough School, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sudetenland, Surrey, Swanage, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Trevor Chadwick, University of London, ... Expand index (2 more) »
Czechoslovak emigrants to England
Writers from Karlovy Vary

Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Bedford College, London

Bedford College was founded in London in 1849 as the first higher education college for women in the United Kingdom.

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Bertha Bracey

Bertha Lilian Bracey (1893–1989) was an English Quaker teacher and aid worker who organised relief and sanctuary for Europeans affected by the turmoil before, during and after the Second World War.

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Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia

The British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia (later the Czechoslovak Refugee Trust) Reference: HO 294.

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British nationality law

The primary law governing nationality in the United Kingdom is the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983.

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Carol Ann Duffy

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Channel 5 (British TV channel)

Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK and Australia division.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten.

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Chingford

Chingford is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

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Croydon Airport

Croydon Airport was the UK's only international airport during the interwar period.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Doreen Warriner

Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner (16March 190417December 1972) was an English development economist and humanitarian.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. Gerda Mayer and Elaine Feinstein are 20th-century English poets, 20th-century English women writers, 21st-century English poets, 21st-century English women writers, English women poets and Jewish poets.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hakhshara

Hakhshara (הַכְשָׁרָה; also transliterated Hachsharah, Hachshara or Hakhsharah) is a Hebrew word that literally means "preparation".

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Haslemere

The town of Haslemere and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around south west of London.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, formerly also spelled Carlsbad in English) is a spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Kibbutz

A kibbutz (קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ,;: kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.

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Kindertransport

The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Nicholas Winton

Sir Nicholas George Winton (19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue Jewish children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74). Gerda Mayer and Nikolaus Pevsner are Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom.

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Nisko Plan

The Nisko Plan was an operation to deport Jews to the Lublin District of the General Governorate of occupied Poland in 1939.

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Odveig Klyve

Odveig Klyve (born 29 January 1954) is a Norwegian writer and film director.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Peter Porter (poet)

Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM (16 February 192923 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet.

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

The Pevsner Architectural Guides are four series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles.

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Poetry Book Society

The Poetry Book Society (PBS) was founded in 1953 by T. S. Eliot and friends, including Sir Basil Blackwell, "to propagate the art of poetry".

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Self-pity

Self-pity is an emotion in which one feels self-centered sorrow and pity toward the self regarding one's own internal and external experiences of suffering.

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Stoatley Rough School

Stoatley Rough School was a school founded in 1934 by Dr Hilde Lion in Haslemere in England.

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Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon, commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England.

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Sudetenland

The Sudetenland (Czech and Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Swanage

Swanage is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England.

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Theresienstadt Ghetto

Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia).

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Trevor Chadwick

Trevor Chadwick (22April 190723December 1979) was a British humanitarian who was involved in the Kindertransport to rescue Jews and other refugee children in Czechoslovakia in 1938–1939 before World War II.

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University of London

The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom.

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Václav Havel Airport Prague

Václav Havel Airport Prague (Letiště Václava Havla Praha), formerly Prague Ruzyně International Airport (Mezinárodní letiště Praha-Ruzyně), is an international airport of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Mayer

, Václav Havel Airport Prague, Victoria County History.

Gerda Mayer, the Glossary

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See also

Czechoslovak emigrants to England

Writers from Karlovy Vary

References