Anni and Walter Robinson: family photographs
Extent and Medium
1 folder
Biographical History
Anni Rose and Walter Robinsohn got married in Hamburg in the late 1930s before coming to the UK to set up a silk and cotton print material import/export business. Anni Robinsohn died in her mid-nineties in c 1992/3 and Walter Robinsohn died aged 96 in 1995.
Acquisition
Postcards and photos of Robinsohn family
Donated November 2008
Donor: Yvonne Drinkwater
Scope and Content
This collection consists of family photographs and postcards of Anni Robinsohn and her husband Walter Robinsohn, Jewish refugees from Hamburg who emigrated from Nazi Germany to London in the late 1930s.
Personal papers including family photographs and postcards, also included are a small metal plaque of Dr Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and a piece of painted stained glass.Conditions Governing Access
Open
Subjects
- National Socialism
- Migration
- Holocaust
- Refugees
- Persecution
- Jews