Object numberM2018/020:009
DescriptionLetter from Miss Frances Barkman, Hon. Secretary, Australian Jewish Welfare Society (Victorian Committee), to Mrs Hilde Ehrlich, Shanghai, China, 30 November 1945. Miss Barkman informs Hilde and Paul Ehrlich that they have been granted a Landing Permit (number 38444). She encloses a list of instructions which must be carried out in order to arrange transport to Victoria. She writes, "I am very happy to let you know that Ingrid and Marion are very well and are still continuing to go to school. Naturally they are delighted to know that your permit has been granted."
On the eve of Kristallnacht, SS officers arrested Paul Ehrlich and deported him to a concentration camp. Paul’s sister and family crossed the border into Holland and managed to organize him travel papers for Shanghai. He was given two weeks to leave Germany. Paul left for Shanghai. His wife tried to get her children out of Germany, approaching different organizations. In early 1939 a friend who worked in the German Jewish Welfare in Berlin told her that the Australian Jewish Welfare Society were willing to accept 17 Jewish children.
She applied for her daughters, 10-year-old Ingrid and nine-year-old Marion; they found refuge in Australia on the Kindertransport, together with 15 other children. Hilde escaped Germany and joined her husband in Shanghai; the family were eventually reunited in 1946 in Melbourne, Australia, after seven years of separation.
On the eve of Kristallnacht, SS officers arrested Paul Ehrlich and deported him to a concentration camp. Paul’s sister and family crossed the border into Holland and managed to organize him travel papers for Shanghai. He was given two weeks to leave Germany. Paul left for Shanghai. His wife tried to get her children out of Germany, approaching different organizations. In early 1939 a friend who worked in the German Jewish Welfare in Berlin told her that the Australian Jewish Welfare Society were willing to accept 17 Jewish children.
She applied for her daughters, 10-year-old Ingrid and nine-year-old Marion; they found refuge in Australia on the Kindertransport, together with 15 other children. Hilde escaped Germany and joined her husband in Shanghai; the family were eventually reunited in 1946 in Melbourne, Australia, after seven years of separation.
Production date 1945-11-30 - 1945-11-30
Object nameletters
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 205.00 mm
height: 260.00 mm
Language
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Ingrid Naumburger