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Object description
Photocopies of 21 letters (in German, with attached translations) mostly written during 1939 – 1941 by the parents of Rudolph Schaffer to their son who had been sent to England on a `Kindertransport' from his home in Berlin, expressing their concern about his welfare and asking for news of his schooling (he was placed in a Quaker boarding school in Yorkshire), friendships and activities, several letters addressed to or concerning other family members who were also in England at that time, referring also to the difficulties of their own situation in Berlin, including eviction from their apartment in late 1939; of particular note is the father's last letter dated November 1941, in which he mentions the "evacuation" of Jews to Poland, predicts his own death, and provides his son with some fatherly advice for his future well-being (Schaffer's father died of pneumonia in Theresienstadt, his mother was killed in Auschwitz) [Note: Rudolph Schaffer settled in the UK after the war and became a distinguished child psychologist].
Content description
Photocopies of 21 letters (in German, with attached translations) mostly written during 1939 – 1941 by the parents of Rudolph Schaffer to their son who had been sent to England on a `Kindertransport' from his home in Berlin, expressing their concern about his welfare and asking for news of his schooling (he was placed in a Quaker boarding school in Yorkshire), friendships and activities, several letters addressed to or concerning other family members who were also in England at that time, referring also to the difficulties of their own situation in Berlin, including eviction from their apartment in late 1939; of particular note is the father's last letter dated November 1941, in which he mentions the "evacuation" of Jews to Poland, predicts his own death, and provides his son with some fatherly advice for his future well-being (Schaffer's father died of pneumonia in Theresienstadt, his mother was killed in Auschwitz) [Note: Rudolph Schaffer settled in the UK after the war and became a distinguished child psychologist].
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