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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Unsung heroine who saved refugees from Nazis honoured in Leeds

Esther Simpson
Esther Simpson and the Academic Assistance Council saved 16 Nobel prize winners from Nazi-occupied Europe. Photograph: Leeds University

An unsung heroine who helped save the lives of hundreds of scholars seeking refuge from Nazi-occupied Europe is to be celebrated with a blue plaque in her home city of Leeds.

Esther Simpson was, from 1933, the assistant secretary to a charitable British organisation called the Academic Assistance Council (AAC).

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