Miscellaneous Postcards from the Military Years
A&E 22 H.M.S. Attentive ramming HMS Ribble (1908) Abrahams H&D FW
A&E 1916 Zeppelin Fragment, 27 Nelson Rd, Dovercourt (1917) H&D FW
A&E D.33461 Dovercourt - Slopes & Bandstand WW1 (1915) Photochrom H&D FW
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A&E Mining of H.M.S. Amphion (1914) London & Provinces H&D FW
A&E Plan D'attaque De Zeebrugge (1918) J.Revyn H&D FW ~
Daring WW1 attack launched from Dover & Harwich.
A&E The Chaplain C.L.B. Camp, Dovercourt (1905) H&D FW
A&E The Chaplain C.L.B. Camp, Dovercourt Gilt Badge (1905) H&D F
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~ A soldiers tale from Dovercourt (1918) ~
~ 01_The Gardens Looking East, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D ~
~ Lower Parade, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D ~
~ The Bathing Beach, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D ~
~ The High Street, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D FW ~
~ The Queens Statue and Gardens, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D FW ~
~ The Bandstand and Gardens, Dovercourt (1918) Saxony H&D FW ~
~ Kindertransport in operation (1938 - 1939) ~
~ Deutsches Reich Reisepass (Kindertransport passport,) named Anna Heichler & dated 1938 ~
German Reisepass
Kindertransport "Arriving in Harwich from Vienna" 12th December 1938
A Deutsches Reich Reisepass (Kindertransport passport,) naming Anna Heichler and dated 1938, together with a photograph showing Anna Heichler with hand written annotation verso "Arriving in Harwich from Vienna" and dated Monday 12th December 1938.
The Kindertransport (Children's transport) was an organised rescue effort that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of WW II. The first Kindertransport arrived at Harwich, England on December 2, 1938, bringing 196 children from a Berlin Jewish orphanage burned by the Nazis during the night of November 9. Most of the transports left by train from Vienna, Berlin, Prague and other major cities (children from small towns travelled to meet the transports), crossed the Dutch and Belgian borders, and went on by ship to England. Hundreds of children remained in Belgium and Holland. The transports ended with the outbreak of war in September 1939.
One very last transport left on the freighter Bodegraven from Ymuiden on May 14, 1940 – the day Rotterdam was bombed, one day before Holland surrendered – raked by gunfire from German warplanes. The eighty children on deck had been brought by earlier transports to imagined safety in Holland. Altogether, though exact figures are unknown, the Kindertransports saved around 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. None were accompanied by their parents; a few were babies carried by children.
Kindertransport "Arriving in Harwich from Vienna" 12th December 1938
A Deutsches Reich Reisepass (Kindertransport passport,) naming Anna Heichler and dated 1938, together with a photograph showing Anna Heichler with hand written annotation verso "Arriving in Harwich from Vienna" and dated Monday 12th December 1938.
The Kindertransport (Children's transport) was an organised rescue effort that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of WW II. The first Kindertransport arrived at Harwich, England on December 2, 1938, bringing 196 children from a Berlin Jewish orphanage burned by the Nazis during the night of November 9. Most of the transports left by train from Vienna, Berlin, Prague and other major cities (children from small towns travelled to meet the transports), crossed the Dutch and Belgian borders, and went on by ship to England. Hundreds of children remained in Belgium and Holland. The transports ended with the outbreak of war in September 1939.
One very last transport left on the freighter Bodegraven from Ymuiden on May 14, 1940 – the day Rotterdam was bombed, one day before Holland surrendered – raked by gunfire from German warplanes. The eighty children on deck had been brought by earlier transports to imagined safety in Holland. Altogether, though exact figures are unknown, the Kindertransports saved around 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. None were accompanied by their parents; a few were babies carried by children.
~ Kindertransport Child at Harwich Port, Essex (1938) H&D ~
~ Kindertransport Football at Warners Holiday Camp, Dovercourt Bay, Essex (1939) H&D ~
~ Kindertransport Train transporting children from Harwich to London (1938) H&D ~
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