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Object description
Documents concerning Lore Michel, a 'Kindertransport' refugee who left Germany for England in June 1939, including: official letter (1p ts, in German) dated June 1939 to Lore's father from the Jewish Youth Aid organisation ('Israelitische Jugendhilfe') in Cologne, containing guidance for his daughter's inclusion in the next transport to England, with a postcard notifying place and time of assembly; Certificate of Conduct ('Fuehrungszeugnis') issued for Lore by the Jawne School, Cologne; Identity Document issued to Lore for entry to the UK; letter (2pp ms) dated 1938 from Lore's prospective 'adoptive parents' in East London, who were already looking after her brother; postcard to Lore from her parents dated August 1939; 2 Red Cross messages from Lore dated 1940 and 1943, enquiring about her parents who had sought refuge in the Netherlands; postcard dated October 1944 sent by her parents from Bergen-Belsen camp to relatives in Switzerland (her mother died of typhus after the liberation of the camp, her father survived); 2 photographs of her father in military uniform during the First World War; copy of explanatory notes written by Lore (2pp).
Content description
Documents concerning Lore Michel, a 'Kindertransport' refugee who left Germany for England in June 1939, including: official letter (1p ts, in German) dated June 1939 to Lore's father from the Jewish Youth Aid organisation ('Israelitische Jugendhilfe') in Cologne, containing guidance for his daughter's inclusion in the next transport to England, with a postcard notifying place and time of assembly; Certificate of Conduct ('Fuehrungszeugnis') issued for Lore by the Jawne School, Cologne; Identity Document issued to Lore for entry to the UK; letter (2pp ms) dated 1938 from Lore's prospective 'adoptive parents' in East London, who were already looking after her brother; postcard to Lore from her parents dated August 1939; 2 Red Cross messages from Lore dated 1940 and 1943, enquiring about her parents who had sought refuge in the Netherlands; postcard dated October 1944 sent by her parents from Bergen-Belsen camp to relatives in Switzerland (her mother died of typhus after the liberation of the camp, her father survived); 2 photographs of her father in military uniform during the First World War; copy of explanatory notes written by Lore (2pp).
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2006-08
