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Permit from Camp Kitchener
After Kristallnacht, the Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief) arranged with the British government for the rescue of about 4,000 Jewish men released from concentration camps. These refugees stayed in a former army base –…
Peter - Identification Card
In the fall of 1938, Nazi authorities required all Jews in Germany to carry identity cards stamped with the letter “J” for Jude (Jew). German Jews whose names did not instantly identify them as Jewish had to add the name “Sara” for women and…
Peter Lederman
Peter Lederman escaped to England from Nazi Germany after "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass).
Peter Lederman with his parents
Peter with his mother and Peter's parents, Max and Mina, together.
Peter Lederman's maternal grandparents in Gotha, Germany
Peter Lederman's maternal grandparents, Julie and Kapel Hellbrunn, were deeply rooted in Germany. Both were born and raised there. They were steeped in German culture and language, and were integrated into German society. The Hellbrunns lived in…
Peter's Letter to His Parents
Peter did not live in the Kitchener Camp. Instead, he attended a boarding school where he continued his education and learned English. Separated from his parents, Peter contacted his father and mother through letters and occasionally visited them.
Peter's Letter to His Parents
Peter did not live in the Kitchener Camp. Instead, he attended a boarding school where he continued his education and learned English. Separated from his parents, Peter contacted his father and mother through letters and occasionally visited them.…
Peter's Paternal and Maternal Grandparents
Peter Lederman's maternal grandparents, Julie and Kapel Hellbrunn, were deeply rooted in Germany. Both were born and raised there. They were steeped in German culture and language, and were integrated into German society. The Hellbrunns lived in…
Photograph of Ernst, Minna, and Max Lederman
Pictured left to right are: Ernst Ledermann (Peter's father), Ernst's mother Minna, and his father, Max, taken sometime in the 1930s.
Photographs of the Trnava Lutheran Church
The interior and exterior of the Lutheran Church in Trnava, Slovakia, where Susan was taken to be baptized in 1943. The family hoped baptism would protect her from the Nazis and their collaborators. She also received baptismal papers as evidence of…