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Peter with his mother and Peter's parents, Max and Mina, together.

Peter Lederman escaped to England from Nazi Germany after "Kristallnacht" (Night of Broken Glass).

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…

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 –…

The fourteen images on this folio depict the monstrous races believed to populate the margins of the world. For each image, there is a corresponding block of text describing the visual qualities of the humanoid creature.

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In December 1938, Doris received a passport, issued by the Third Reich, so she and her mother could join her father in England. The Nazis stamped the letter “J” for Jude (Jew) (not pictured) on the first page of the passport.

A passage from Rose Mary Denman's biography discussing her church trial.