Wiener Library photo documents, 1938-1940 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

This is a collection of the duplicates of photo-documents received with a copyright clearance from the Wiener Library. It cmprises photographs related to the Kindertransport experience in 1938 -- 1940.

There are also photographs related to the History of the Holocaust in Europe

The Kindertransport (German for children transport) is a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.

Some Jewish children from Germany were accepted in Sweden owing to the arrangements made by the Swedish relief organizations.

World Jewish Relief (then called The Central British Fund for German Jewry) was established in 1933 as a direct result and to support in whatever way possible the needs of Jews both in Germany and Austria. Records for many of the children who arrived in the UK through the Kindertransports are maintained by World Jewish Relief.

RG-68.01, Refugee children from Vienna

RG-68.02, Jewish refugee girl with doll, in Alexandra Palace

RG-68.03, Jewish refugee boy playing the violin amongst other boys on train out of Germany

RG-68.04, Jewish refugee youngsters on a train from Germany and Austria during the Kindertransport

RG-68.05, Arrival of Jewish refugee children from Germany in Naarden, Netherlands, in November 1938

RG-68.06, Jewish refugee children arriving on a train arriving in Holland from Germany, 1 December 1938

RG-68.07, Jewish refugee children in Holland on their way to England, December 1938

RG-68.08, Refugee girls from Germany after arrival in British port in 1938

RG-68.09, Jewish refugee children falling asleep on the train taking them out of Germany in December 1938

RG-68.10, A sleeping refugee girl during the Kindertransport in November or

December 1938

RG-68.11, Jewish people queuing in front of the Alien Registration Office in Amsterdam, July 1938

RG-68.12, Abba Kovner - fourth from the left - and Jewish Lithuanian partisans, July 14, 1944

RG-68.13, Morderchai Chaim Rumkowski in a group, middle row, third

RG-68.14, Jew deported from Slovakia to nomansland at Hungarian border in November 1938 protecting his grandchild against the cold

RG-68.15, Jewish refugee children from Germany at Dovercort Bay, near Harwich, shortly after arrival in Great Britain in December 1938

RG-68.16, Jews executed by the 'Einsatzgruppe A'

RG-68.17, I will never again make complaints to the police (Ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren) (1) Nazis marching a Jew through the centre of Munich in 1933

RG-68.18, Nazis marching man with sign through the street

RG-68.19, Soup kitchen in Lodz Ghetto 1942

RG-68.20, Burning of books in the Third Reich

RG-68.21, Notorious camp orchestra in Janowska played, whilst inmates were tortured and executed, in 1943

RG-68.22, Youngest refugee children during the Kindertransport in 1938

RG-68.23, Women inmates in bunks at Auschwitz

RG-68.24, Woman sitting on a park bench marked 'Only for Jews' in 1930s Germany

RG-68.25, Transport bound for Treblinka. Picture taken secretly at Sielce station in August 1942

RG-68.26, Children arriving at the orphanage in the Lodz Ghetto

RG-68.27, Geography lesson in the Lodz ghetto in 1941. The boy points out Haifa on map of Palestine

RG-68.28, Three boys in the Lodz ghetto wearing the Yellow Star

RG-68.29, Immigrants from camps arriving in Israel

RG-68.30, Three refugee boys eating

RG-68.31, Two Jewish refugee girls hugging on the boat

RG-68.32, Refugee children awaiting embarkation to Britain from Hoek van Holland, November 1938

RG-68.33, A group of refugee girls being registered by a police officer on arrival in the port of Harwich, Autumn 1938