Bracey had recognised the threat to the Jews of Germany in 1933 , after Hitler became Chancellor and the Nazi party took control , " Words are not adequate to tell of the anguish of some of my Jewish friends " . After the great pogrom of '' Kristallnacht '' in 1938 , she visited Berlin and was then part of the delegation which met with the British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to convince him to expedite the acceptance of Jewish children as refugees from Germany . She then led the Quaker team which formed part of the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany . Initially , they were based in Friends House but this was overcrowded and so the Palace Hotel in Bloomsbury Street was bought to become Bloomsbury House – a centre for all the refugee organisations to work together . Bracey became secretary of the Inter-Church Council for German Refugees and led a team of 80 Quaker case-workers on the third floor . During the war , she took on further duties . In 1940 , after the fall of France caused concern about the security risk of having German refugees in Britain resulting in internment , she led the Central Department for Interned Refugees which addressed the practical and humanitarian issues arising from this policy . At the end of the war , she was still saving children . For example , in 1945 , she arranged for the RAF to fly 300 orphans from Theresienstadt concentration camp to a reception centre by Windermere
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