1_24: Renata Laxova
1940, Front side - Letter from Renata Laxova around Christmas time.
Tan letter with cursive handwriting in English using black ink. An accompanying yellow note with printed handwriting in English. At the top right corner of the document, the number "6" handwritten and circled in pencil.
Name/Title
1_24: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.24Scope and Content
1940, letter from Renata Laxova around Christmas time.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