Marjorie McClelland

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Marjorie Helen McClelland (born August 17, 1913 - June 12, 1978 ; born Marjorie Helen Miles ) was an American child psychologist and savior of the Jews .

Life

Marjorie McClelland was a daughter of the experimental psychologist Walter Miles . Her mother, Elizabeth Kirk Miles, died when she was a child. She graduated from Stanford University , worked at the University of Cincinnati and Yale University in the field of child psychology and finally director was the school for child day care in Manhattanville . In 1938 she married Roswell McClelland .

Marjorie McClelland was a Quaker and friends with members of the Quaker charity American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). During the Second World War , the AFSC was looking for employees to work in Europe. The organization engaged the McClelland couple, who initially went to Lisbon for a month in August 1940 . This was followed by a one-year stay in Rome , where the McClellands set up an office for refugee aid . This had to close its doors in August 1941. The McClellands then worked for the still existing AFSC office in Marseille , where they took on various tasks.

German refugees of Jewish origin were interned in France as hostile foreigners . An action led by the US Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM) aimed to enable Jewish refugee children from the camps to travel to the United States. The AFSC should be responsible for selecting the children. Marjorie McClelland took on this task and drove from camp to camp for this purpose in the summer of 1942. This enabled around 250 children to come to the United States via Lisbon. An expansion of the program failed because of the broken diplomatic relations between the United States and France after Operation Torch , the British- American invasion of French North Africa .

The McClellands moved to Geneva in late summer 1942 , where they took over the management of the local AFSC office. In February 1943 their first of four children was born. When Roswell McClelland started working for the War Refugee Board in Bern in April 1944 , Marjorie McClelland was the sole director of the Geneva AFSC office. She had an annual budget of just $ 32,000 for this. The McClellands left Switzerland in 1949. Roswell McClelland embarked on a diplomatic career that took her to Spain , Senegal , Rhodesia , Greece and Niger .

The McClelland couple's written estate, the Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers , is in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers. Biography. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b I have come out of the night, and you fed me. American Friends Service Committee, June 4, 2010, accessed January 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b c Rebecca L. Erbelding: About Time: The History of the War Refugee Board . Dissertation. George Mason University, Fairfax 2015, pp. 354 and 493 ( digilib.gmu.edu [PDF; accessed on January 16, 2018]).
  4. ^ A b Rebecca L. Erbelding: About Time: The History of the War Refugee Board . Dissertation. George Mason University, Fairfax 2015, pp. 294 and 749 ( digilib.gmu.edu [PDF; accessed on January 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME McClelland, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McClelland, Marjorie Helen (full name); Miles, Marjorie Helen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American child psychologist and savior of the Jews
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1913
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1978