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The collection documents the experiences of Emil Spiro, originally of Butzbach, Germany, who survived the Holocaust in Switzerland after arriving there in 1939 on a Kindertransport. The collection primarily consists of Swiss documents, immigration paperwork, and correspondence. Biographical materials include immigration paperwork, restitution files, and documents related to Emil’s life as a refugee ...

Het archief bevat stukken betreffende de organisatie van de post, protocollaire zaken endossiers over de ontwikkelingen in het ressort Bazel op het gebied van juridische en sociale zaken, economie, cultuur, onderwijs en wetenschap. Te vinden zijn onder meercorrespondentie en rapporten inzake handelsrelaties, de Rijnscheepvaart, de opening van de KLM lijn op Bazel, kindertransporten, de opheffing van ...

The identity of the author of this prayer is unknown. The translator was the donor's mother, who was born in Breslau in 1888 and lived in Berlin. She was a psychologist, the first woman to graduate in Jena in about 1920. She came to Great Britain in 1939 and became a Quaker. Her two children came on a Kindertransport.

The collection consists of a tefillin set and storage pouch, two tallits, a tallit storage pouch, a stole, publications, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Pfifferling, who left Germany for the United States in 1939, and of documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of his wife, Ruth Liebermensch (later Knox), and her sister, Hanna Liebermensch (later Lewin), ...

Refugee boys from Berlin arrive at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in the town of Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. He and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish ...

Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", ...

Contains documents about Inge M. Rosenthal's escape to Germany on a Kindertransport, letters from Alfred and Margarete Sachs (1939-1943), deportation notice for Alfred and Margarete Sachs, death notice for Alfred and Margarete Sachs, documents related to Max and Herta Moser's emigration from Germany to Shanghai, transcribed letters from Carl Heinrich Mayer, and 21 black-and-white photographs. An accretion ...

Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) ...

Alfred Bader was born April 28, 1924, in Vienna Austria. His father's family was of Czech Jewish descent, while his mother was a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat. Escaping Nazi persecution, he fled from Austria to England at age 14 in 1938 via the Kindertransport. He arrived in Canada as an interned refugee during WWII. Denied admission at McGill University, Alfred Bader went on to attend Queen's University ...