A Viennese professor who fled Austria in 1938 has established a fund for the education of refugee girls who fled their homes for Switzerland because of racial or religious persecution. The professor, Eugen Steinach, well known for his research in hormones, died recently leaving an estate of $70,000, the interest from which will be used for this training project.
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