Fleischmann family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Eva Paddock
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Eva Paddock.
Scope and Content
Documents and photographs related to Sonia Fleischmann, who fled Prague to the United Kingdom in 1940. Eva and her sister, Milena Fleischmann, were sent ahead of their parents from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport to the United Kingdom, in 1939. Items include the tag worn by Eva while traveling to the UK; photographs of Eva, Milena and the Radcliffe family who cared for the girls once they arrived in the UK; identification documents for “Seina Fleischmannova” and a luggage tag, documenting Sonja’s voyage through Oslo, Norway to Liverpool, UK and, according to trunk’s labels, to Hammond Street, Preston, Lancashire, UK; newspaper clipping of Eva’s arrival in Liverpool.
Subjects
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--England.
Genre
- Document
- Identification documents.
- Photographs.
- Newspaper clippings.