1_10: Renata Laxova
c.1930s-1940s, Front side - Letter and drawing from Renata Laxova to her father.
Tan paper with drawing and printed handwriting in English using pencil and colored crayon. Around the border of the document, symbols in red and blue crayon. At the center, the text "A Merry/Christmas/To Daddy/From Renate" A drawn house in pencil and colored crayon appears at the bottom center. The house has red exterior walls, a blue door and windows, and blank roof. Directly to the left, A pine/fir tree colored in green crayon appears.
Name/Title
1_10: Renata LaxovaEntry/Object ID
2019.1.10Scope and Content
c.1930s-1940s, letter and drawing from Renata Laxova to her 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
Illustration, Letter
Philatelic Material