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Brown leather-like pencil case with 3 graphite pencils, 2 fountain pens, 4 colored pencils and 1 eraser recieved by Erwin Bensdorf in Germany before he emigrated to England in 1939 and used in England. One photogragh album compiled by Max Haybrook, who assisted children from Nazi-occuped Europe through the Kindertransport (4 loose photos inside), 3 photographs (one framed), one document with compilation ...

Letters written between 1938 and 1941 by members of the Gittler family of Breslau, Germany. The majority of the letters were written by Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler and their son, Franz Gittler, and were sent to Ilse Gittler Muller (daughter of Wilhelm and Gertrud), who, with her husband Hans (later changed to Harold), had immigrated to the United States in 1938. The letters describe family matters ...

Edith Simon Babich (1922-2005) was born Edith Simon on July 1, 1922 in Cloppenburg, Germany to Karl Simon (1884-1943) and Selma Simon (née Katz, 1894-1943). Her father was a cattle merchant, and she had three sisters: Ruth Simon (later Ruth Heinemann, b. 1925), Hildegard "Hilde" Simon (later Hilde Gernsheimer, 1926-2019), and Ilse Simon (1928-1943). During Kristallnacht in November 1938 Karl and his ...

Letter written by child on Kindertransport to his parents. Rectangular form constructed of paper; printed on recto at upper right side is image of small bearded man wearing blue hat standing under a tree reading a letter; below image is pre-printed blue lines with handwritten text in graphite and on left side is pre-printed blue lines; on verso at upper left side is pre-printed blue lines with handwritten ...

Contains of materials related to the experiences of Alice Mimi Schleissner (Mimi Ormond), originally of Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. Includes photographs of Mimi's immediate and extended family, photographs of her life on the Hachshara after arriving in England on a Kindertransport, and her 1944 wedding photograph from her marriage to Ed Ormond, an American GI. Also includes Mimi's wartime recollections ...

Contains four vintage photographs and two copy prints illustrating the pre-war life of Sali Friedler (donor's husband) and his immediate family in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Sali, born in 1930, was sent on Kindertransport to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 with his older brother Leo. Their parents, Charlotte and Bernhard, were deported to Riga, Latvia and Auschwitz-Birkenau respectively. Charlotte was deported ...

Collection of letters written by Heinz Ludwig Wertheimer (b. May 22, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany). He was sent by his parents Dr. Max and Rosel Wertheimer to England on the Kindertransport. The parents joined their son Lutz in August 1939 and a year later they immigrated to the US. using a false identity of Edith Adler (b. 1924 in Ulm, Germany) issued under the name "Edith Aubert" who was a member of ...

Louis Satvsky collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the efforts of Otto and Gitla Waga to immigrate to the United States from Vienna, Austria with the assistance of their cousins, the Stravsky family. The documents include letters written to the Stravsky family in the United States requesting assistance in securing an affidavit of support, copies of correspondence with the American ...

Consists of one photograph album containing pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the extended Kliger family, originally of Germany and Austria. Includes correspondence and documentation regarding Evelyn Kliger, who was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939, while her parents, Josef and Katherina Kliger, escaped from Vienna to Switzerland. Includes letters from Evelyn in England to her ...

Red Cross letters from father in Berlin  to children in UK, 1940s