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The children Erika and Herbert emigrated separately to England on Kindertransports in 1939. Their parents Arthur and Emma Muehlstein fled to Belgium where they survived the Second World War. The couple had two more children during the war who were taken to a convent to ensure their safety.<div><br><div><div>Erika Burgell (born 1932, née Muehlstein) and Herbert Muehlstein (1930-1996) were the children ...

The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards ...

The collection consists of family letters written to George Rosenberg after he fled his family home in Offenbach am Main, Germany to Brussels, Belgium on a Kindertransport in 1938, where he lived with relatives in the Orbach family. The letters include one photocopy of a letter to George from his parents Emil and Fanny Rosenberg and sister Liesel Rosenberg in 1938. The other correspondence consists ...

<p>The Waldmann-Mandels were a blended family. Maurice Donat Waldmann was a Jew from Berlin who came to the UK in about 1938 to avoid persecution. In April 1940 he married Helena Mandelbaum, but this marriage was dissolved. Together they had a daughter. </p><p> Maurice married Rita Munter in February 1947. Rita was from a village in Bartenstein. However, after being expelled for refusing to give the ...

<p>Francis and Anna Wahle came to Great Britain on a Kindertransport organised by the Quakers from their home city, Vienna, in 1939. Whilst both children were raised as Catholics, they qualified for inclusion as their parents, Karl and Hedwig, had converted from Judaism. Anna grew up to become an ordained nun and a member of the order ‘Our Lady of Sion’ (specifically dedicated to Christian-Jewish understanding) ...

Feodora Singer (1924‐2010) was born in Mannheim to Julius Reinhold (1890‐1956) and Rosa Beer Reinhold (1888‐1931). Julius Reinhold was a baker who had purchased his bakery and apartment from his wife’s mother, Flora Beer (1856‐1941). The bakery was destroyed and part of the apartment damaged during Kristallnacht. In January 1939 Feodora Singer arrived in England on a Kindertransport, joining her sister, ...

Edith Rothschild (born 1925) and her sister Trude (born 1924) grew up in Frankfurt am Main. They were the children of Gustav Rothschild (1879-1957), a merchant of musical instruments, and his wife Martha (née Lindheimer, 1898-c1942). Gustav was arrested in 1939 and released from concentration camp provided that he emigrated within 10 days. The family tried in vain to obtain visas to emigrate to the ...

Ralph Steinhart was born Rolf Steinhart on 5 September 1928 in Bochum, Germany to Fritz and Käthe Steinhart. His father Fritz (later Fred Steinhart, 1890-1960) was born on 17 March 1890 in Leipzig, Germany. His mother Käthe was born Käthe Rosenberg (later Kate Steinhart) on 17 January 1897 in Münster, Germany. Ralph had one brother, Karl Heinz Steinhart (1924-1994). His family lived in Hannover, Germany ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to book a reading terminal to access a digital version of this archive</strong></span></p><p>Correspondence from the family of Ruth Balint, dealing in the main with family matters but also organizational arrangements for emigration from Nazi Germany.</p><div>German</div> <p>During the war years Ruth received the letters in this collection from her ...

Eugen Wolf (born in Rhein-Hesse in 1893) initially trained as a banker in Mainz and worked for the Dresdner Bank in Dresden, Saxony, for two years. After the death of his father he took over the family farming and wine-growing business. He married Johanna Mann (born 1895) from Guntersblum in 1919 and continued the farming business of his father-in-law. They had one daughter, Marianne, who was born ...