Anna V. S. Mitchell

Anna V. S. Mitchell (1878–1966) was an American Red Cross worker in France during World War I, and afterwards among Russian refugees in Istanbul.

Her sister Lucy Lindley Mitchell married John Charles Molteno, Jr., a businessman and legislator in South Africa.

[4][5] As a young woman, Anna V. Mitchell was known as an "accomplished pianist" and "active in settlement work in New York and London.

[13] Her correspondence with notable family connections helped with fundraising, but she also arranged for refugees to sell their handicrafts on passenger ships in the Black Sea.

[14] In 1929, she and Alma Ruggles took leave to give lectures in the United States to raise awareness and funds for their continuing refugee work in Turkey.