Letter from the Refugee Children's Movement
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Date
November 26, 1946
Description
Letter from the Refugee Children's Movement (formerly known as the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany) addressed to Hugo Hubert informing him that his brother Leo and sister in law Hedwig died in the Holocaust. This organization was designed to operate the Kindertransport [Children’s transport], a program initiated by the British government that rescued more than 10,000 Jewish children from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Austria following Kristallnacht. It is this program that saved Hugo's nephew, Selmar (Sel) and his neice, Emma from meeting the same tragic fate as their parents.
Type
Written Document
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II, Postwar United States
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Immigration, Jewish History, Transportation, World War II
Repository
Sel Hubert Family Private Collection
Source
Courtesy of Sel Hubert's Family
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