This collection comprises papers and correspondence regarding individual children, who came or were hoping to come to Leeds on one of the Kindertransporte. There is also some general correspondence and papers.

Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison ...

The ROK was an organisation that facilitated reunions and communication between former child survivors of the Holocaust who managed to escape Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia via organised transports for mainly Jewish children prior to Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. The genesis of the group began as an idea by Bertha Leverton- a former Kind herself- to organise a reunion in 1989, ...

Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. Shortly before Christmas 1938, Winton was planning to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. He decided instead ...

Joan Schwab (1926-2016) was born Ingeborg Nussbaum to Toni (nee Sichel) and Israel Nussbaum. She and her twin brother Hans were sent by their parents from Berlin, Germany on a Kindertransport to the United Kingdom. They arrived separately in May (Ingeborg) and August (Hans) 1939, and lived in London with the Denham family. Their parents were deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt in July 1942 and then ...

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Tirat Zvi
 
 Background material:
 
 1. Regarding the film "Children in Strangers' Arms", dealing with the Kindertransport;
 2. Suggested list of books dealing with the subject of the Kindertransport;
 
 Kibbutz Tirat ...

The collection consists of a suitcase and a blouse used by Anne Lehmann on a Kindertransport in December 1938.

Consists of ten letters and three postcards written by Charlotte (Lotte) Berndt Wolff to her daughter, Ilse Wolff, between 1940-1944. Charlotte and her husband, Herman, emigrated to Shanghai in 1939, while Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium and spent the war in various children's homes. Herman Wolff passed away in September 1940, and the collection also includes a copy of Charlotte's death ...

Rabbi John Rayner, previously Hans Rahmer, came to Great Britain from Berlin with his sister, Erica, on the Kindertransport

Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

Gustav Rosenduft had been on the Kindertransport and was subsequently deported to Canada as an enemy alien internee.

The collection consists of a knapsack and a suitcase used by Erika Schulhof when she was sent from Vienna, Austria, to Great Britain in 1938 on the Kindertransport.

The collection consists of an identification tag and documents relating to the experiences of Henry Schmelzer who was sent from Austria to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938.

Contains twenty-five letters and postcards, nine legal documents, forty-two black and white photographs, and two color photographs concerning Trude Gruber's experiences as a Kindertransport child.

The collection includes two photographs of students at Jewish school on Lützowstrasse in Cologne, Germany, including Josef Aretz prior to his departure on a Kindertransport.

The papers consist of correspondence pertaining to Lillyan Rosenberg's escape from Germany on a Kindertransport to England and the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz.

The collection consists of two steamer trunks that were sent to England to Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport

Contains 26 letters, six legal documents, three Canadian Pacific cards, and one menu from the Canadian Pacific pertaining to the experiences of Ilona Penner and her twin brother, Kurt Penner on a Kindertransport.

Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.