Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder

Identifier
irn702324
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.308.2
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn702324

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection.

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.

Scope and Content

Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.

System of Arrangement

The report is arranged as a single series.

People

  • Mangold, Eli.

Subjects

  • Humanitarian assistance.
  • Langenbruck (Switzerland)
  • Basel (Switzerland)
  • Switzerland.
  • Children.

Genre

  • Reports.
  • Document
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