Source Description
On six pages of a notepad, kindergarten teacher
Eva Warburg wrote down the names of some of the
children enrolled at the Jewish day care center at
Jungfrauenthal
37 in
Hamburg, which she
ran, who were to be evacuated abroad in late 1938 in view
of the increasing persecution of Jews. The page shown here is now in the archives of
the central Israeli memorial site Yad
Vashem. According to a handwritten reference in the same collection, her
mother Anna Warburg also
noted the children’s destinations on this list after her
daughter had left for
Sweden. The excerpt
of her notes shown here lists the names of two pairs of siblings and a boy, who were
to be sent to
Sweden. They are four out of about a dozen children for whom
Sweden is indicated
as the destination. In total, about 500 German and Austrian Jewish children were
probably rescued by Kindertransport [child
evacuation] to
Sweden. These were
organized in close cooperation between German and Austrian Jewish aid organizations
and the Jewish congregation of
Stockholm
[Mosaiska församlingen i
Stockholm].
The aim was to bring the children to safety in
Sweden and to make
it easier for their parents to find a way to escape. The ultimate goal was to
reunite them with their parents in exile.
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Recommended Citation
Page from Eva Wartburg’s Notepad (1938) (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-211.en.v1> [December 21, 2024].