Andrew Blau papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Andrew Blau in 1991.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of a publication and two letters relating to refugees at the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, England, and an internment camp on the Isle of Man during World War II. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment had been deferred by the Nazis, who were willing to let them alone on condition that they leave Germany immediately. The Home Office gave them a group entrance visa and waived the normal regulations for passports and individual permits.
Corporate Bodies
- Kitchener Camp for Refugees.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Great Britain.
- Refugees, Jewish--Great Britain.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document