Margery Annie Abrahams (1896 – 1983) was a British dietitian who helped organise the Kindertransport scheme to rescue children from the Holocaust.
She was born in 1896, the only child of medical doctor Bertram Abrams and his wife Jane, née Simmons, a concert pianist.
[1] In about 1918, Margery worked at the Zion Institute as the secretary of Benjamin Cohen, who remained a lifelong friend and a benefactor of her humanitarian efforts.
[3][2] Margery was one of the first women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford when she gained an MA in history in 1920 at Somerville College.
[7] She found local accommodation for refugee children, including fostering a fifteen-year-old escapee from Czechoslovakia in her home and hosting about twenty orphans in another of her properties.