Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Identification tag worn by Kindertransport child. Tag was given to Margot Stern in the United Kingdom with Kindertransport. Issued to Margot Stern, December 1938.
- Date
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1938 December
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Margot Loewenberg
- Markings
- stamped, verso, in ink "Fort Medical Officer Harwich"
- Contributor
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Subject:
Margot Loewenberg
- Biography
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Margot Loewenberg was born in 1922 to Julius and Lily Stern in Frankfurt, Germany. She also had a younger brother named Werner. Her family managed a wholesale clothing store in downtown Frankfurt. As anti-Semitic laws began to take hold in Germany in the 1930s, the Hebrew schools which Margot attended were closed. She was sent to a children’s home in Cologne, where she learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many nearby Jewish synagogues and businesses were destroyed. Margot was then sent back to her family in Frankfurt, where the Germans had confiscated Julius’ business. With not many options, Margot was accepted on a Kindertransport, and was sent by herself to Holland, and took a boat to London. Once in England, she helped acquire affidavits for her brother and parents. After the family had made it to England, they acquired visas for immigration to the United States, and set sail in March, 1940. It was while living in Chicago that Margot met her future husband John, and they were married after his return from deployment in the U.S. Army. Margot passed away in 2013.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Labels
- Object Type
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Name tags (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- brown cardboard tag, string dangling from one end
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.110 inches (7.899 cm) | Width: 24.490 inches (62.205 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, colored pencil, cloth, adhesive
- Inscription
- recto: in colored pencil "STERN/MARGOT"
verso: in colored pencil "6665"
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Margot Loewenberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:45
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Also in Margot Stern Loewenberg collection
Date: 1938
John and Margot Loewenberg papers
Document
The John and Margot Loewenberg papers contain documents from the separate journeys of Margot Stern and John Loewenberg, prior to their marriage. The documents pertaining to Margot include a name and luggage tag from her travel aboard the Kindertransport, visa requests, and an identity card issued to her while she was living in England. The documents pertaining to John include personal correspondence and letters sent through the Red Cross, inquiries made towards his family and property after the war, two photographs, and a postcard of the ship he sailed on when he immigrated to the United States.
Luggage label used by a young girl on the Kindertransport
Object
Luggage label Issued to and used by Margot Stern in December 1938 for sue on the Kidertransport.