Ever since the departure of Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy for the United States in 1937, Jack Pritchard had continued to provide accommodation for refugees from Fascism by letting them occupy empty flats between lets, free of charge. His efforts on their behalf were tireless; making introductions, securing employment and, once the war had begun, writing to the chairman of the tribunal in support of their applications for exemption from internment as ‘enemy aliens’. Those refugees who were fortunate enough to enjoy the hospitality of Lawn Road Flats were, like the Kuczynskis, in the main, highly-educated left-wing Jews. One such refugee, Dr Kurt Rothfels, a judge in Germany, had fled in the clothes he stood up in; Pritchard went to great lengths to help him settle in England. On 12 January 1939 he wrote to a solicitor friend of his, Fredrick Graham Maw, a director of Isokon, asking him to spare Dr Rothfels ‘a few minutes’ to see what could be done for him. ‘I understand,’ he wrote, ‘that it is doubtful if his legal qualities will be of much use here, but he has turned out to be an exceedingly nice man, clearly reliable, trust-worthy, and I understand that he is prepared to do anything.’ He also wrote to Robert Furneaux Jordan, President of the Architects' Czech Refugee Relief Fund, with a similar request.