Номер объектаM2019/019:010
ОписаниеCertificate of Adele Buchsbaum, from the London County Council's Auxilliary Ambulance Service.
It certifies that Adele completed the training in First Aid, and has passed the exams required.
Adele (Adi) Hurst (nee Buchsbaum) was the sixth of eight children born in Ostrava Czechoslovakia to Israel Buchsbaum and Esther Buchsbaum (nee Fogelfang). Her British passport records her date of birth as 1919, but other sources indicate it may be 1917.
When Germany invaded Czechoslavkia, Adi who was then 19, fled on foot to Poland accompanied by one of her brothers and a younger sister. They then travelled to Sweden by boat and eventually made their way to London, arriving in 1939. Their oldest brother left with Maccabi to Palestine prior to the war and another two of the Buchsbaum siblings made their way to Europe. Adi’s mother remained in Ostrava to care for her parents and Israel escaped to Russia, surviving the war living in Siberia. He returned to Ostrava post-war where he learned Esther was murdered in Treblinka; Adi’s older sisters living in Poland, their husbands and children were all murdered in concentration camps.
Adi and her siblings has no papers on their arrival in London and were looked after by the Czech Jewish Welfare organisation. She took a job mending stockings and during the war, drove an ambulance. In 1946, she met widower Erich Hirsch (later Erich Hurst). He too was a refugee from Czechoslovakia and was living in Cardiff, Wales. They married 22 August, 1946 and in September, 1947 their daughter Eva was born.
In 1949, the family of three left England for Australia on the passenger ship, SS Orontes. Adi’s father was invited to join them, but he moved to Israel and lived with another of his daughters. In Sydney, Eric established Martin Wells spectacle frames factory at St Marys, growing the business into an international endeavour, he passed away in 2002. Adi died in 2012; she had three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
It certifies that Adele completed the training in First Aid, and has passed the exams required.
Adele (Adi) Hurst (nee Buchsbaum) was the sixth of eight children born in Ostrava Czechoslovakia to Israel Buchsbaum and Esther Buchsbaum (nee Fogelfang). Her British passport records her date of birth as 1919, but other sources indicate it may be 1917.
When Germany invaded Czechoslavkia, Adi who was then 19, fled on foot to Poland accompanied by one of her brothers and a younger sister. They then travelled to Sweden by boat and eventually made their way to London, arriving in 1939. Their oldest brother left with Maccabi to Palestine prior to the war and another two of the Buchsbaum siblings made their way to Europe. Adi’s mother remained in Ostrava to care for her parents and Israel escaped to Russia, surviving the war living in Siberia. He returned to Ostrava post-war where he learned Esther was murdered in Treblinka; Adi’s older sisters living in Poland, their husbands and children were all murdered in concentration camps.
Adi and her siblings has no papers on their arrival in London and were looked after by the Czech Jewish Welfare organisation. She took a job mending stockings and during the war, drove an ambulance. In 1946, she met widower Erich Hirsch (later Erich Hurst). He too was a refugee from Czechoslovakia and was living in Cardiff, Wales. They married 22 August, 1946 and in September, 1947 their daughter Eva was born.
In 1949, the family of three left England for Australia on the passenger ship, SS Orontes. Adi’s father was invited to join them, but he moved to Israel and lived with another of his daughters. In Sydney, Eric established Martin Wells spectacle frames factory at St Marys, growing the business into an international endeavour, he passed away in 2002. Adi died in 2012; she had three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Наименованиеcertificates
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 185.00 mm
height: 249.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eva Scheinberg