Object numberM2018/020:012
DescriptionBlack and white photo of Ingrid and her father Paul Ehrlich, walking in the street, Germany, undated.
On the eve of Kristallnacht, Paul Ehrlich was deported to a concentration camp. He managed to obtain a visa for Shanghai and was given two weeks to leave Germany. His wife Hilde tried to get their children out. In early 1939 a friend in the German Jewish Welfare in Berlin told her that the Australian Jewish Welfare Society were willing to accept 17 Jewish children. Hilde applied for 10-year-old Ingrid and nine-year-old Marion.
Dr Erna Falk escorted the children to Australia. On June 12, 1939 Ingrid, Marion and Hilde caught a train to Bremen to board the ‘Europa’ for Southampton. Children were given Kindertransport stickers and said goodbye to their parents. From Southampton they boarded the ‘Orama’ for Australia. The Orama arrived in Melbourne on 23 July 1939. Frances Barkman from the newly founded Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Anglicised Ingrid and Marion’s surnames from Ehrlich to Earl. Thereafter the children were taken by bus to their new home in Balwyn, Melbourne. The house, named ‘Larino’, was rented to the Australian Jewish Welfare Society.
Hilde managed to join her husband in Shanghai; the family were eventually reunited in 1946 in Australia after seven years of separation.
On the eve of Kristallnacht, Paul Ehrlich was deported to a concentration camp. He managed to obtain a visa for Shanghai and was given two weeks to leave Germany. His wife Hilde tried to get their children out. In early 1939 a friend in the German Jewish Welfare in Berlin told her that the Australian Jewish Welfare Society were willing to accept 17 Jewish children. Hilde applied for 10-year-old Ingrid and nine-year-old Marion.
Dr Erna Falk escorted the children to Australia. On June 12, 1939 Ingrid, Marion and Hilde caught a train to Bremen to board the ‘Europa’ for Southampton. Children were given Kindertransport stickers and said goodbye to their parents. From Southampton they boarded the ‘Orama’ for Australia. The Orama arrived in Melbourne on 23 July 1939. Frances Barkman from the newly founded Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Anglicised Ingrid and Marion’s surnames from Ehrlich to Earl. Thereafter the children were taken by bus to their new home in Balwyn, Melbourne. The house, named ‘Larino’, was rented to the Australian Jewish Welfare Society.
Hilde managed to join her husband in Shanghai; the family were eventually reunited in 1946 in Australia after seven years of separation.
SubjectAustralian link to Holocaust, Kindertransport, reunions, refugees, street scenes, street photography
Object namephotographs
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 65.00 mm
height: 90.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Ingrid Naumburger