Omslagtitel: Goedkoopste retours naar: London, en de voorn. stations in Engeland en Schotland via Vlissingen & Hoek-Harwich. 64 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 727, Part 2C. Release date, 12/12/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Young Refugees Reach Britain" Harwich, England. 206 German-Jewish youngsters, whose parents fill Nazi concentration camps, arrive on peaceful shores with their meager belongings to start life anew in comfortable quarters and in safe surroundings. Young Jewish refugees arrive in ...

German identification and travel documents issued to Ernst Guttmann in Breslau, Germany, from where he emigrated in 1939 on a Kindertransport. Documents include a child's identification card and a standard identification card, the latter marked with the letter "J." Also included are identification card issued to Guttmann in Harwich, England, August 1939, and railway and steamship ticket for travel ...

Meneer heeft tijdens de oorlog aan de Vlaardingerdijk gewoond, waar zijn vader een kapperszaak had. Hij had een jongere broer die kort voor de oorlog werd geboren. Het gezin behoorde tot het Apostolisch Genootschap. Anders dan zijn broer leed hij fysiek onder de armoedige omstandigheden tijdens de hongerwinter. In december 1945 werd meneer uitgezonden naar Engeland. Hij verbleef eerst in een kamp in ...

Consists of two testimonies written by Rosemarie Palliser, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes one testimony, 2 pages, entitled "Our Flight From Germany, 1939," in which Ms. Palliser describes her father's role as the director of a vocational school for Jewish boys and his determination to have all the children immigrate to safety. In August 1939, Ms. Palliser and her family, along with the boys ...

<p>Ilse Hyman was born Ilse Beres on 23 December 1924 in Vienna to Max (b. Brody, 17/12/1881), an export merchant, and Rosa (née Goldstein, b. L’viv, 10/07/1898). She arrived in Harwich on a Kindertransport on 12 December 1938. Her foster parents were Mr and Mrs Lesser. Ilse settled in Birmingham, where she worked as a tailor. She married David Hyman, a 27-year-old draper, in Birmingham and became ...

First boatload of 200 German Jewish children arriving from Holland coming down gangplank each wearing tag around neck which is checked. Good CUs as first girls then boys come down. Photographers and journalists take pictures. Shot of ship "Prague." Children board buses for Dovercourt holiday camp. 01:03:34 Arrival at camp, kids carry in their luggage. INT, kids playing ping pong. Children eating in ...

<p>Ruth Gertrude Peschel was born in Jauer, Silesia, in 1923. She was the daughter of shoemaker Otto Peschel (b 1898) and his wife Helene (b 1894, née Jakobowitz), who married in 1920. Due to Nazi legislation Ruth had to leave school early in 1937 and was unable to train as a seamstress. In 1938 she moved with her parents to Breslau.</p><p>Ruth Peschel emigrated on a Kindertransport to England in June ...

Eva Abraham-Podietz (born Eva Rosenbaum) was born on May 22, 1927 to Ernst and Else (Jacobus) Rosenbaum in Hamburg, Germany. Her father worked in the import-export business. She had one brother, Heinz-Peter Rosenbuam born in 1924. During the summer of 1938 Eva's father moved to England and made preparations for the family to join him. Heinz-Peter followed him in September 1938, after being sponsored ...

Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) was born on March 16, 1926, in Deutsch Krone, Germany (Walcz, Poland), to Julius and Hertha Cohn Dobriner. Max had two older brothers, Robert, born in. 1921, and Herbert, born in 1924. They were an observant Jewish family. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. By July, the Nazi dictatorship was firmly in place and restrictive Jewish policies ...

<p>This collection comprises the personal papers of Herbert Elliott (formerly Eisenthal), a former Kindertransportee from Vienna who escaped Nazi persecutions in 1938. His sister emigrated to Palestine. His father was unable to leave Vienna but survived his imprisonment at Terezin concentration camp, where he was held for almost three years.</p><p>Personal papers including Herbert Elliott's school ...

Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...

This collection relates to the lives and emigration attempts of the Stettner family. As the family members were all born in different countries—Maximilian and his daughter Ilse in Czechoslovakia, Kathe in Austria, and Walter in Italy—they were under different refugee quotas and had different opportunities for immigration. The collection illuminates the hardships imposed by circumstances of birth and ...