Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.
Scope and Content
Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.
System of Arrangement
The report is arranged as a single series.
People
- Mangold, Eli.
Subjects
- Langenbruck (Switzerland)
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Basel (Switzerland)
- Children.
- Switzerland.
Genre
- Document
- Reports.