!!!Quäker

Quakers, "Society of Friends", religious community founded 
in the 17%%sup th/%  century. The Quakers took up their charitable 
activities in Austria in 1921 (between 1922-1939 they ran the 
International Quaker Centre in Vienna). Between 1934 and 1938 the 
Quakers supported the persecuted Social Democrats, and, after 1938, 
they helped Jews to leave Austria; after World War II they provided 
many people, primarily refugees, with relief supplies.


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