Henry Schmelzer collection

Identifier: irn514301
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Henry Schmelzer.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an identification tag and documents relating to the experiences of Henry Schmelzer who was sent from Austria to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938.

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Numbered ID sign issued to a Jewish Austrian boy for the Kindertransport
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514302
- English
- overall: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Identification tag issued to 14 year-old Henry (Heinrich) Schmelzer in December 1938, for his emigration from Vienna, Austria, to England aboard a kindertransport. He was among 150 children who were taken to an estate in Scotland, which was leased to the Whittingehame Farm School, a combination boarding school and Zionist training center for eventual immigration to Palestine. In 1940, after two years at Whittingehame, Henry was interned for three months as an enemy alien. After his release, Henry worked various jobs and moved around Britain multiple times. In August 1943, when enemy aliens ...
Henry Schmelzer papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521424
- English
- 1938-1940
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The papers are related to Henry Schmelzer's journey from Austria to England via Kindertransport in 1938 and his stay in England during World War II.

Henry Schmelzer collection

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Numbered ID sign issued to a Jewish Austrian boy for the Kindertransport

Henry Schmelzer papers