Harry Jarvis: family papers

The depositor, Harry Jarvis, was, at the age of 16, sent by his father, Adolf Jaslowitz to Great Britain to stay with relatives, on account of growing anti-Semitism in Romania. Harry's parents and sister, Sonja, remained and spent much of the war years in various concentration camps and internment camps. They managed to survive this experience only for Sonja to be killed as the result of a British bombing raid. Adolf died shortly afterwards and Lotte came to Great Britain to be with her son. Whilst training to be a barrister she wrote a number of short stories (1617/3).</p><p>Samuel Nissen was a distant cousin of the depositor who was handed over to the Gestapo by the French in Tours, sent to Drancy internment camp and deported to Auschwitz where he survived the war (1617/5).</p><p>Mike Ovitz (1617/7), cousin of depositor, was an agent to many celebrities in the USA and later became vice-president of Universal Studios.</p><p>Hermann Jaslowitz was the depositor's grandfather. This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011. Open