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1. We kept our heads
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0347 | RG Number: RG-02.201
Subtitle:
personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England
…personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England…
2. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… work camp but fled with his brother, Erich, via Belgium, France, and Spain (spending time in internment camps in France and Spain) to England. He joined…
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 … Jacques and Hedi Grootkerk’s marriage in Amsterdam, Jacques’ flight to England via Spain and service in the Princess Irene Brigade, and Hedi’s flight to…
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3. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Czechoslovakia to England in 1939, worked in fashion and design, and married Karl Gerhard Margosches (1911-1993) in 1942. Karl was born in Brünn (Brno, Czech…
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 …, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United…
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4. Dorit B. Whiteman papers
2009.294.1 Box 11 Folder 6 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2009.294.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2009
bulk: 1987-1993
… accomplished pianist, and proprietor of a renowned girls' boarding school. In 1938 her family escaped to England, where her mother sustained the family by…
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 … girls’ boarding school. In 1938 her family escaped to England, where her mother sustained the family by working as a maid. Dorit attended boarding school…
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5. Anna and Leo Bluethe letters concerning Kristallnacht in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0157 | RG Number: RG-02.099
Date:
1939
… Germany to England.…
6. Ilse Schoenholz biographical sketch
1995.A.0403 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0403
Date:
creation: circa 1990
…' store was boycotted when the Nazis came to power, and she was sent to England on a Kindertransport in August 1939. Her parents were deported to the Riga…
7. Bianca Perlmutter papers
2018.580.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2018.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… liberation in 1945. After liberation she was sent to the Niederlangen DP camp. From the camp she wrote letters to her uncle Dick in England. She did not know…
8. Frank J. Morris diaries
1988.20.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.20.1 | RG Number: RG-10.277
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The collection consists of three diaries written by Frank J. Morris while on military duty in England, France, and Germany during World War II. One…
9. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
… Breclav, and the family's immigration to Vienna. After the Anschluss, Magda was able to immigrate alone to England. Her family soon returned to…
10. "Lost and Waiting to be Found"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.450.1
Date:
2011
…, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning…
11. Peter Mansbacher papers
1998.A.0148 Box 1 Folder 39 Folder 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0148
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1991
inclusive: 1934-1991
… parents secured him a place on a Kindertransport to England in December 1938 where he passed through several refugee camps in 1939, spent a brief time at…
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 … Museum Abstract: The Peter Mansbacher papers document Mansbacher’s efforts to obtain a visa to the United States, his passage to England on a…
12. Elise Schapira papers
1991.157.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1991
… testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and parents in the…
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 … brief testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and…
13. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… Gita decided to send their two children to England on a Kindertransport and hoped to follow them soon. One of Elias’ business colleagues helped arrange…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
14. John Honig family papers
2018.490.6 Book Enclosure1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2018.490.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2014
bulk: 1938-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… immigrated to England and made arrangements for John to go to England. In September 1938 he flew to England and his aunt and uncle brought him to stay at the…
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 … Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England…
15. Schifferes family papers
2003.134 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2003.134
Date:
1930-1939
… and worked in Stuttgart in 1938, spent several weeks in Dachau following Kristallnacht, moved to England in 1939 on a training permit, and immigrated to…
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 … immigration records, and subject files documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese, and Stephan Schifferes in Austria, Germany, England, and the United States and…
16. "Zigi's Story"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.186.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2008
… accidental British bombing of another boat also containing prisoners. He was liberated by the British Army and settled in England, where he married and raised…
17. "Krulik's Story"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.186.2
Date:
creation: 1995
… remained until the final weeks of the war, when he was sent to Theresienstadt, from which he was liberated. He was sent to England to recover, married and…
18. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"
2014.485.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.485.2
Date:
creation: circa 1939
… London, Dr. Hertz, who aided their passage to England. Georg and Martha arrived in England on March 31st, 1939, leaving their families behind in Germany…
19. "With Only a Toothbrush"
Document | Accession Number: 2011.183.1
Date:
creation: 2004
… family efforts to flee Amsterdam when the Germans invaded and the Dutch Royal Family fled, and their escape by boat to England, where they found employment…
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 … for England. The two parts of the family, my parents in the Clio Straat and the rest in the Jeker Straat, could not contact each other - the telephone…
20. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Morgenstern on a children’s transport (Kindertransport) in Vienna and she went to England. She lived with a foster family. During the war, she joined the Women…
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 … materials include identification papers of Regina Morgenstern, who took a Kindertransport from Vienna to England in 1938; letters from her parents Taube and…