Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1938-1965 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund was established in 1938 by Ernest Jones to help psychoanalysts and their families to escape Austria following the Nazi invasion and to establish new lives elsewhere. The fund, originally called 'The Austrian Fund', was initially run by Ernest Jones and his secretary Miss Taylor, but Eva Rosenfeld was soon appointed honorary secretary and administered its affairs until 1965.
Following the war, the fund was renamed the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund and previous recipients of grants from the fund were asked to repay the money they had received in order to send financial assistance to psychoanalytic colleagues living in communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The fund also provided occasional books and journal subscriptions and financial assistance to allow psychoanalysts to attend Congresses of the International Psychoanalytical Association. A further appeal began in late 1954 to raise funds from analysts in the UK, USA and other countries in order to send care packages to colleagues in Hungary.
The fund was later divided into two organisations, with the Psychoanalytic Assistance Fund Inc established in the USA in 1957 to manage larger sums of money. From 1965, it appears that the work of the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund was largely discontinued.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Records of the Ernest Jones Rehabilitation Fund, including financial records and correspondence with donors and beneficiaries.
The Fund assisted psychoanalysts leaving Austria after the Nazi invasion of 1938 and later provided support to colleagues in communist regimes, including sending relief parcels to analysts in Hungary.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The material is arranged into five series:
P33-A - Original actions
P33-B - Hungarian action
P33-C - Other supplies and funding
P33-D - Financial records
P33-E - Transfer to archives
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Language of material
- English
- French
- German
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
The collection catalogue is published online.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Further records related to the emigration of analysts from Europe can be found in the John Rickman collection (ref. P03-C-A-03), the Ernest Jones collection (ref. P04-C) and the records of the British Psychoanalytical Society (ref. S-M-04).
Publication note
Material from this collection was used as the basis for an exhibition at Freud Museum Vienna titled 'Organized-Escape - Survival in Exile. Viennese-psychoanalysis 1938 and beyond.'
An online version of the exhibition is available to view at Freud Museum Vienna's website: https://www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitions-program/exhibition-details/articles/organized-escape-survival-in-exile-viennese-psychoanalysis-1938-and-beyond
The exhibition ran between 2021-11-12 and 2022-04-18.
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Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Information taken from correspondence in this collection (P33-E).