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Toni (Antonie) Stolper née Kassowitz was born in Vienna in 1890. She studied law in Vienna and Berlin, graduating in 1917. From 1921 to 1925 she wrote for the Austrian weekly "Der österreichische Volkswirt". In 1921 she married the journal's co-editor Gustav Stolper. Confronted by the unstable economy of post-war Austria, the Stolpers moved to Berlin in 1925, where Gustav Stolper founded "Der Deutsche Volkswirt" in 1926. The new publication quickly became one of the Weimar Republic's most respected liberal economic journals. Toni Stolper regularly contributed articles on developments in the British Empire and the Soviet Union, as well as other topics. The Stolpers left Germany in July 1933 and arrived in the United States in October 1933. - In the US, Toni Stolper remained active in journalism and social politics. As one of the founding members of the emigree relief organization "Selfhelp" and later a member of the "American Council for Emigrees in the Professions" she played a leading role in emigrant assistance programs. An avid writer, she remained in regular contact with German and American scholars and political personalities. Toni Stolper died in Alexandria, Virginia in 1988.

The photographer Lotte Meitner-Graf was born in Vienna in 1899. After emigrating to England in 1937, she became known as one of the best portraitists of academics, actors, musicians, and scientists.

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Toni Stolper, Leo Baeck Institute, F 12248.