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Description: | Papers relating to his experiences during the Second World War detailing his persecution in Hungary and Romania on the grounds of his German Jewish background; his flight to safety in Istanbul in September 1942 and, after further harassment, to Palestine in June 1943 where he worked for the British Army as a clerk; his evacuation to Cyprus in June 1948; his deportation in 1949 when he was to be repatriated to Germany against his will; his life and employment in the United Kingdom until his emigration to Canada with his family in late 1950. Also other documents including the German passports (one of which identifies him as a Jew) he and his wife used during the war, correspondence concerning his claims for compensation for the loss of his assets in Hungary/Romania and a memoir and other papers relating to his uncle Siegfried who also suffered persecution as a German Jew in Hungary/Romania during the Second World War having made a perilous escape from St Petersburg on the outbreak of the First World War.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rosenberg, Fritz | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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