1_29: Renata Laxova Luggage List
1939 July 19, Front top - List of permitted items from Renata Laxova's mother.
Tan paper with typed text in German using blue ink at the top edge and left side. Printed handwriting using black ink is present at the right side.
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1_29: Renata Laxova Luggage ListEntry/Object ID
2019.1.29Scope and Content
1939 July 19, list of permitted items from Renata Laxova's mother.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
List