A Balkan story

John Corsellis tells the story of a life-saving Quaker intervention in Austria in 1945

by John Corsellis 21st June 2013

The four hundred people who attended the brilliant Quaker Service Memorial inauguration earlier this year did so in ignorance of what was, probably, historically the most significant and dramatic single incident in the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) story in either world war. This was the saving, in 1945, of the lives of 6,000 defenceless refugees and, in reality, many thousands more.