1_08: Renata Laxova
c.1940s, Front side - Letter from Renata Laxova with illustration.
Tan paper with illustration in pencil and colored pencil. The document is colored red overall. At the bottom center, a Christmas tree with one yellow present on either side. At the left, a blue table and chairs with three red presents on top. At the right, a girl/woman holding a red present. At the bottom edge, three birds in black ink, visible from the reverse side. At the top center, coloring in blue and green lines.
Name/Title
1_08: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.8Scope and Content
c.1940s, letter from Renata Laxova with illustration.Context
Partial excerpt taken from exhibit page F4_1.1_P15.3: Renata (Polgarova) Laxova was born an only child on July 15, 1931 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. When she was eight years old, her parents sent her alone on a train bound for England to escape Nazi occupation. She arrived in England on August 2, 1939 as a child refugee and spent the war with the Quaker family of Harry and Edna Daniels. Renata survived the Holocaust thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton and the “Children’s Section” of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, which rescued at least 669 Czech children – most of them Jewish – on so-called “kindertransports.” Renata was on the last transport to arrive safely.Collection
Renata LaxovaCategory
Illustration
Philatelic Material