1_09: Renata Laxova
c.1930-1950, Reverse side - Letter from Renata Laxova with drawing.
An illustration in red, blue, and black crayon or colored pencil. A ship with two exhaust funnels in the center, the left larger than the right one. At the stern, a colored flag in blue and red crayon or pencil. At the bow, an individual colored in blue holds a red colored flag. Overhead, six clouds are present and at the top right, a red light plane.
Name/Title
1_09: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.9Scope and Content
c.1930-1950, letter from Renata Laxova with drawing.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
Letter, Illustration
Philatelic Material