International Federation of University Women

The International Federation of University Women ( IFUW ) is an international organization which aim is to promote the education of women.

The IFUW was founded in 1919 by Virginia Gildersleeve, Caroline Spurgeon and Rose Sidgwick.

She has national organizations in many countries such as Australia, Canada and Germany for the Germans Akademikerinnenbund.

Foreign members of IFWU rendered during the Third Reich numerous scientists crucial assistance in the legal emigration and illegal escape from Germany and the occupied territories into the open abroad by worried them the financial means to leave, vouched for their livelihood in the host country, they worried jobs vouched for their political safety and facilitate the social integration in exile. These beneficiaries were, for example, Charlotte Leubuscher, Alice Masaryková, Lise Meitner, Kate Paris, Alice Salomon, Georgette students, Hertha Sponer and Frieda Wunderlich.