The Scattergood Hostel. Redux. Refugee housing for Ukrainians, 2022
From Friends Journal, May 11, 2022
Scattergood-style hostel launches in Germany for Ukrainian refugees
Michael Luick-Thrams, a Quaker historian wrote a book about the largest Holocaust relief effort in the United States. And he and others have launched a similar effort to replicate the refugee effort in Germany to house Ukrainian Refugees.
Read about their Scattergood-Style Hostel refugee effort, here…
A QuakerSpeak Video on Quakers and the Holocaust by Michael Luick-Thrams, a Quaker historian.
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In the summer of 1938, a group of young Quakers in Iowa wrote a letter to the American Friends Service Committee, volunteering to host refugees from Nazi Germany at their summer camp. By the time Clarence Pickett, the AFSC’s executive secretary, responded to the letter, the situation had gotten even worse, and he asked the Iowan Friends if they could take refugees year-round. That led to the launch of Scattergood Hostel, the largest grassroots relief effort in the United States in response to the Holocaust.