Survivor children airlifted from Theresienstadt "camp-ghetto" to England post-war (ID: 45393)
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Description:
This index is a combination of two lists found in the International Tracing Service (3.1.1.3 folder 190) of children who were airlifted from the Czech Republic to England in August of 1945. One of the lists only includes name and date of birth. The other list includes name, date and place of birth, and nationality. This second list often contains an original entry and a final entries for this information. Children often changed their names and dates of birth as they arrived in England. The general pattern was to make themselves younger (presumably their real age) --survival in camps/ghettos was better if they claimed to be older.
Compiler:
Lande, Peter
Credit:
Arolsen Archives
Document Date:
Aug 1945
Sex:
Male and Female
Language:
English
Nationality:
- Austrian
- Czech
- German
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Russian
- Stateless
Number of Persons (Exact):
501
Associated Place:
- Czech Republic
- England
Keyword:
- Children
- Survivor
List Type:
Research project
Document Format:
Typed Document
Notes:
Created from the files available in the Arolsen Archives' collection 3.1.1.3/0190/0118 – 0132, 0138 – 0140.
From Collection
Description:
The Arolsen Archives, formerly International Tracing Service (ITS), Located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, are an international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of National Socialism. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World. It contains documents on the various victim groups targeted by the Nazi regime and is an important source of knowledge for society today.
Only a very small part of Arolsen Archives’ collection is imported in the USHMM’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims database.
Only a very small part of Arolsen Archives’ collection is imported in the USHMM’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims database.