1_23: Renata Laxova
c.1940s, Front side - Letter from Renata Laxova.
Tan paper with cursive handwriting in Czech using black ink. At the top center, a colored printed illustration depicting two birds dressed in red vests, black bowties, and black top hats, singing. An infant angel dressed in white is holding a white music sheet. The birds and angel are sitting atop a branch.
Name/Title
1_23: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.23Scope and Content
c.1940s, letter from Renata Laxova.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
Philatelic Material