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Kartei und Unterlagen des Forschungsprojekts "Pädagogisch-Politische Emigration 1933-45 (PPE)", darin unter anderem Unterlagen zu: Quäker-Schulen, Recco-Schule, Pestalozzi-Schulen, Kinderheimen, Landschulheim Florenz; Sammlungen zu unterschiedlichen Projekten, Ausstellungen und Veröffentlichungen, zum Beispiel zu: Schulen im Exil, Landeserziehungsheimen, Stockbridge School (USA), jüdisches Kinder- ...

Consists of one manuscript entitled, "See you soon Caroline!" by Bernard Wilson. The manuscript is a fictionalized account of a family researching the history of a grandfather, who was born at Rivesaltes and later adopted. The manuscript highlights the work of the American Friends Service Committee in southern France, particularly the work of Irish Quaker Mary Elmes (referred to in the manuscript as ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of the Sturmthal and Löwenstein families from Bad Pyrmont and Steinheim respectively, Germany, who fled to England with the help of the Quakers in 1939.</p>Family papers including birth, marriage and death certificates, German passports (1754/1-3), Dina Löwenstein's certificate of naturalisation and correspondence from Steinheim Town Council regarding ...

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in this World War II drama. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. One of the caracters is a junior officer roaming the ship in search of homosexual adventures.

Contains photocopies of a personal narrative by Hugh Jenkins describing his experiences in Bergen-Belsen as well as British Red Cross and British military documents relating to the camp after liberation. Also contains photocopies of two photographs depicting the burning of structures at Bergen-Belsen.

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.

<p>Selma Mills (1923-2011) née Klau was born into a Jewish family in Munich. The family leather goods business, Erlanger and Liste, was aryanised in 1937. Selma came to Great Britain aged 16 on one of the last Kindertransports before the outbreak of war. She lodged with a Quaker family in Birmingham where she trained to be a nurse. After the war she went to the USA, where she had an uncle. She became ...

Contains the remembrances of Lily Zelenka in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, as a victim of deportation, prisoner in several concentration camps, and survivor of the Holocaust. "Little Lily" covers a general span of time from 1900 through the 1950s. "Little Lily" was written by Claire Ramsay as told to her by Lily Zelenka in 1981.

In de Onafhankelijke Contactcommissie voor Vredeswerk werkten samen: Algemene Nederlandse Vredesactie, Doopsgezinde Vredesgroep, Federatie Vrije Socialisten, Geloofsgemeenschap van Christen Anti-Militaristen "Kerk en Vrede", Nederlands Syndicalistisch Vakverbond, Onafhankelijk Verbond van Bedrijfsorganisaties, Vredesbeweging "De Derde Weg", Het Genootschap der Vrienden (Quakers), Vereniging "De Vrije ...

<p>This collection contains the family papers of the Jewish family of Victor and Marianne Strauss and their sons Helmut and Kurt. The family emigrated from Germany in 1939 to excape Nazi persecution. Includes transcripts and translations of a selection of Helmut Strauss's letters.</p><p>Included are correspondence and papers relating to Helmut's school education in England and internment in the UK ...

Correspondence, reports, circulars, alphabetical registration files of internees, transfer lists and medical records of internees, alphabetical lists of Jews under house arrest, related to internment camps in France, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien and Polo-Beyris in Bayonne. Also contains records relating to financial aid of Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), the Red Cross, the Quakers, ...

Alwin Goldschmied, was arrested in April 1938 by the Gestapo and eventually perished in Auschwitz having reached there via Drancy. The daughter, the depositor, Ellinor, came to England in 1939 with the assistance of the Quakers. Maria Goldschmied seems to have spent the majority of the war in a small town called Stiefern with relatives some 90 km from Vienna. In August 1946 she came to England.