Laura Selo collection

Laura Selo was the oldest of three sisters who were brought up in a middle class assimilated Jewish family in Berlin. The family later moved to Prague and the girls came to Great Britain on one of the 'Nicholas Winton' trains. Grete Gumpel, Laura's mother perished in a mass grave in Chelmno on 15 May 1942. Laura's father managed to escape to Great Britain and was intened during the war. Laura Selo family correspondence and papers including letters from her mother Grete Gumpel to her father; also letters from the children to their father while he was interned; also documents and Red Cross letters of Else Philipps, Grete Gumpel's sister, who managed to get to Great Britain. Included is a negative of a letter by the Jewish Refugee Committee. Open