Harriet Cohen

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Harriet Cohen was a prominent pianist in the 1920s until her death in 1967, but her influence stretched beyond that of the music world, strongly publicising the plight of German and Austrian Jews in the 1930s and even performing a concert with Albert Einstein in 1934 in order to raise funds to get Jewish Scientists out of Germany. 

She lived on Farm Walk from the 1920s until just before the Second World War. 

Photograph, HGST89
Harriet Cohen
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