1_07: Renata Laxova
1939 August 25, Front side - Post card from Renata Laxova to her mother and father.
Tan post card with printed text and outline in Czech and French in red ink. Cursive handwriting in Czech using black ink is present overall. At the top right corner, a 1.50-kor red imprinted stamp depicting Tomáš Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia. At the top center, a black ink overprint cancellation.
Name/Title
1_07: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.7Scope and Content
1939 August 25, post card from Renata Laxova to her mother and father.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
Kindertransport, Renata LaxovaCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material