English families who fostered kindertransport children #unitedkingdom


Marilyn Levinson
 

Dear researchers
I am wondering if the names of the families that sheltered children who arrived in England can be found.  My relative, I have his name, date of departure, and that he was placed in London.  Also can anyone tell me how the process was reversed and children in England were re-united with surviving German family members.  The child and all his immediate family have died.  Many thanks.
Marilyn Levinson
Spring Lake NC


JoAnne Goldberg
 

Hi Marilyn and anyone else looking for Kindertransportees --

This is the best resource for information about host families and other
notes: https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/about-us/your-family-history

My mother's file included information plus a photo that my
Kindertransport mother did not have, though it was missing one of her
host families.

WJR may also have the answer to your other question.

JoAnne
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JoAnne Goldberg - Menlo Park, California; GEDmatch M131535
BLOCH, SEGAL, FRIDMAN, KAMINSKY, PLOTNIK/KIN -- LIthuania
GOLDSCHMIDT, HAMMERSCHLAG,HEILBRUNN, REIS(S), EDELMUTH, ROTHSCHILD, SPEI(Y)ER -- Hesse, Germany
COHEN, KAMP, HARFF, FLECK, FRÖHLICH, HAUSMANN,  DANIEL  -- Rhineland, Germany

 


Harvey Kaplan
 

Try World Jewish Relief, who have the records of the Central British Fund:


Harvey Kaplan
Glasgow, Scotland

On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 18:36, Marilyn Levinson via groups.jewishgen.org <wallachlevinson=aol.com@...> wrote:
Dear researchers
I am wondering if the names of the families that sheltered children who arrived in England can be found.  My relative, I have his name, date of departure, and that he was placed in London.  Also can anyone tell me how the process was reversed and children in England were re-united with surviving German family members.  The child and all his immediate family have died.  Many thanks.
Marilyn Levinson
Spring Lake NC


jbonline1111@...
 

A dear friend of mine was fostered in Cardiff, Wales. Does the World Jewish Relief include Wales? 
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC


David Mendoza
 

My MENDOZA grandparents took in three kids called BERGER from Dortmund. A brother called Bernard later went to Australia, a sister called Gretchen who never married, and another sister whose name I don't know, or know what happened to her. The parents were later discovered to have been murdered by the Nazis. 

Best wishes,

David Mendoza


Moishe Miller
 

My KLEIN cousins, all boys (Martin, Erno, Ignacz, Alex, Jeno, Tibor and Robert, ), born between 1925 and 1937, were from Hungary and sent on a Kindertransport, to England. Both parents perished. I do not know who raised the boys. Sadly, the last two brothers both passed in 2020 (one from COVID) and I do not know how to learn more.
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Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
JGFF #3391


Jill Whitehead
 

Three members of my Edinburgh Brown family (Brin from what is now Vistytis, Lithuania) took in Kindertransport children (in Scotland not England) from Berlin (previously from Dessau) Germany. They were reunited with their mother at the end of the war - she was an Ophthalmologist who managed to escape to New York. The Browns went to a meeting in Edinburgh and were shown photographs of children who required support. I wrote an article on them in 2016 in Shemot, the Journal of the JGSGB,  after being contacted by one of the children who was living in the Seattle area - sadly he died at Xmas 2019. The experience of being uprooted several times, from Germany to Edinburgh to New York, had a lasting impact on the children, but at least they had loving families in Edinburgh - some did not, while others locally were placed in communal agricultural establishments in the Midlothian area. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK


Rosemary Eshel
 

My grandparents Collette & Victor Hassan looked after two young girls from the kindertransport during WW2 as well as their four children. After the war both girls found some surviving family and left England - one to Israel, the other to the US. We remained in touch visiting each other's families until Sara & Margot's deaths in recent years.

Rosie Eshel, Meitar Israel