Marie Schmolka

Marie Schmolka (née Eisner; 23 June 1893 – 27 March 1940) was a Czechoslovak Jewish activist and social worker who helped political refugees and Jewish adults and children escape the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the lead-up to World War II.

In August 1939, she was sent by Adolf Eichmann to negotiate Jewish emigration from Central Europe to Paris on a JOINT conference.

Caught up by the outbreak of the Second World War, she relocated to London and continued her work for refugees as part of Bloomsbury House.

The text reads: "Marie Schmolka was the only Czechoslovak representative at the Evian conference of July 1938, which focused on the Jewish refugee crisis.

After the Munich agreement of September 1938, together with Doreen Warriner, she organised the Kindertransporte scheme that brought in Sir Nicholas Winton.

Marie Schmolka historical marker on the Holocaust Rescuers wall, Hoop Lane, Barnet, England