| LC control no. | n 2004062342 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pritchard, Marion |
| Variant(s) | Binsbergen, Marion van Van Binsbergen, Marion |
| Located | Waccabuc (N.Y.) Washington (D.C.) Vershire (Vt.) |
| Birth date | 1920-11-07 |
| Death date | 2016-12-11 |
| Place of birth | Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue Social service Psychoanalysis |
| Profession or occupation | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Social workers Psychoanalysts |
| Found in | Making a difference, 2004: t.p. (Marion Pritchard) p. 9 (Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard; rescued Jews in Holland during the Holocaust) p. 12 (Marian van Binsbergen) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 21, 2016 (Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student who was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust, died Dec. 11 [2016] in Washington; she was 96; recognized in 1981 by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, as one of the "righteous among the nations"--those gentiles who, seeking no reward, risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Nazi dragnet that claimed 6 million lives during World War II; Marion Philippina van Binsbergen was born in Amsterdam on Nov. 7, 1920; after the war, Mrs. Pritchard became a United Nations social worker in displaced-persons camps; through those assignments, she met her husband, Anton Pritchard; the Pritchards settled in Waccabuc, N.Y., and later in Vershire, Vt.; Mrs. Pritchard continued her social service work in the United States, helping refugee families; graduated from what is now the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and ran a psychoanalysis practice for several decades; in 2006, she moved to Washington) |
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