Kindertransport | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Collection Overview

Title: Kindertransport

ID: RG-118/RG-118

Extent: 0.0

Arrangement: This Record Group is arranged in 10 subcollections.

Subjects: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport, Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs, Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs, Kindertransport, Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England, Kindertransport, photo-documents

Languages: English, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This Record Group is comprised of 10 sub-collections, each dedicated to a particular child who escaped Europe on a Kindertransport, and artifacts related to this particular child. Each child has their own sub-collection under RG-118, which then contains artifacts specific to that individual.

Collection Historical Note

In response to the brutality of Kristallnacht, several organizations worked together to bring Jewish children under Nazi occupation to safety in the United Kingdom (UK). Roughly 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria, parts of Czechoslovakia, and parts of modern-day Poland were sent to the UK on Kindertransports (children’s transports). Additional, smaller groups of children were brought to safety on Kindertransports to Sweden and Switzerland. The first train carrying refugee children left Berlin on December 1, 1939, and trains were halted when borders were closed due to the outbreak of World War II. The vast majority of the rescued children never saw their families again.

As part of a temporary exhibition curated by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the artifacts that form this group were loaned from 10 children who escaped Europe on a Kindertransport. A number of these artifacts were on short term loan to the museum, and have since been returned, therefore they are only available digitally.

Subject/Index Terms

Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport
Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs
Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs
Kindertransport
Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children
Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England
Kindertransport, photo-documents

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Access Restrictions: There are no access restrictions on this collection

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[Sub-Collection 1: RG-118.01, Charles Susskind Collection],
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Sub-Collection 2: RG-118.02, Lisa Jura Collection

Lisa Jura was born on April 21, 1924 in Vienna, Austria to Abraham and Malka Jura. She was the middle child and enjoyed a happy upbringing along with her sisters, Rosie and Sonia. Lisa grew up in a home filled with music and became a piano prodigy.

In 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria and implemented their antisemitic and discriminatory legislation. During the violence of Kristallnacht, Jewish-owned businesses were damaged, synagogues were burned, and Jews, including Lisa’s father, were beaten openly in the street.

Lisa’s parents secured a place for her on the Kindertransport, a program to evacuate thousands of Jewish children from Nazi Europe to safety in the U.K. In August 1939, Lisa boarded a train and said goodbye to her parents, not knowing that she would never see them again. Malka’s last works were “promise me that you will hold on to your music.”

In the U.K., Lisa was placed into a boarding house on Willesden Lane with 31 other children refugees who arrived on the Kindertransport. They formed their own family and adapted to life as best they could. Sonia secured a spot on the last Kindertransport from Vienna and was taken in by Quakers in the English countryside. In March 1942, Lisa was accepted into the London Royal Academy of Music, the same year that troubling rumors circulated regarding the fate of European Jews. After the war, Lisa learned that her parents perished in Auschwitz, but her older sister Rosie survived. The sisters later reunited in England.

Lisa would go on to become a professional pianist. In 1949, she married resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor Michel Golabek, and they immigrated to the U.S. where they had two daughters, Mona and Renee, who also became concert pianists, fulfilling Malka’s wish that they hold on to their music.

This collection contains artifacts related to Lisa Jura.

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-118.02.01, Lisa Jura Portrait

Portrait of Lisa Jura as a young woman

Arrangement: The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by creator/subject, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Extent: 1 photograph

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-118.02.02, Photograph of Lisa and Sonia Jura, 1938, 1938

Photograph of Lisa Jura and her younger sister Sonia.

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Austria (1933-1939); Lisa Jura; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-118.02.03, Photograph of Lisa Jura and her husband Michel, taken in Paris

Photograph of Lisa Jura and her husband Michel, taken in Paris

Arrangement: <span style="color: rgb(16, 55, 93); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.96px;">The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by creator/subject, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.</span>

Extent: 1 Photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Lisa Jura; Michel Golabek; Paris (France); Kindertransport; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-118.02.04, Photograph of Lisa Jura and her husband Michel Golabek

Photograph of Lisa Jura and her husband Michel Golabek

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Michel Golabek; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-118.02.05, Photograph of Lisa Jura and kids from Willseden Lane, 1944, 1944

Photograph of Lisa Jura and kids from Willseden Lane, 1944

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-118.02.06, Photograph of Lisa Jura and Michel Golabek in England, Wartime

Photograph of Lisa Jura and Michel Golabek in England, Wartime

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Michel Golabek; Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Kindertransport, routes from Germany to United Kingdom, 1938 -- 1940; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-118.02.07, Photograph of Lisa Jura in London with Flowers

Photograph of Lisa Jura in London with Flowers

Extent: 1 Photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane; Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-118.02.08, Photograph of Lisa Jura in Paris, 1948

Photograph of Lisa Jura in Paris, 1948

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Paris (France)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-118.02.09, Photograph of Lisa Jura

Photograph of Lisa Jura

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-118.02.10, Lisa Jura immigration documents

Lisa Jura immigration documents

Extent: 1 document

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-118.02.11, Wimbledon Music Festival Certificate for Lisa Jura, 1948

Wimbledon Music Festival Certificate for Lisa Jura, 1948

Extent: 1 document

Subject/Index Terms:: Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-118.02.12, Preludes for Piano by S. Rachmaninoff, sheet music

Preludes for Piano by S. Rachmaninoff, sheet music

Extent: 1 document

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane; Musicology and performance

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-118.02.13, Letter to Lisa Jura from a fan at the Howard Hotel

Letter to Lisa Jura from a fan at the Howard Hotel

Extent: 1 document

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-118.02.14, North London Music Festival analysis of Lisa Jura, 1946

North London Music Festival analysis of Lisa Jura, 1946

Arrangment: The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by creator/subject, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Extent: 1 document

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-118.02.15, Photograph of Abraham and Malka Jura

Photograph of Abraham and Malka Jura, Lisa Jura's parents.

Lisa’s mother Malka gave Lisa this picture of herself as she boarded the Kindertransport. On the back of the picture, Malka inscribed ‘So you will never forget your mother’. The picture of Lisa's father was brought to the U.K. by her sister Sonia. These were the only pictures Lisa had of her parents, and she considered them precious possessions during the Holocaust.

Extent: 2 photographs

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-118.02.16, Thankyou letter from Mrs. D. H. Hardisty, Refugee Children’s Movement, to Lisa Jura, 1944

Thankyou letter from Mrs. D. H. Hardisty, Refugee Children’s Movement, to Lisa Jura, thanking her for her contribution of her music to the 'At Home' program. Dated February 2nd 1944.

Extent: 1 document

Language: English

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane; Jewish Refugee Children's Movement

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-118.02.17, Photograph of Mrs. Cohen and the children of Willesden Lane, 1940

Photograph of Mrs. Cohen and the children of Willesden Lane, 1940

arrangement: The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by creator/subject, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Evacuation of the 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Kindertransport; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 18: RG-118.02.18, Franz Schubert Sheet Music

Composition by Schubert used by Lisa while studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Extent: 1 document

Language: English

Subject/Index Terms:: Royal Academy of Music, London; Musical Notes; Musicology and performance; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 19: RG-118.02.19, Lisa Jura Immigration documents from Jewish Refugee Committee

Document issued by the Jewish Refugees Committee recording Lisa’s efforts to emigrate to the U.S. dating from December 1947 until she left for New York in 1948.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Refugee Committee; Lisa Jura; Willesden Lane; Immigration documents; Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 20: RG-118.02.20, Photograph of drawing room, Willesden Lane, 1940

Photograph of drawing room, Willesden Lane, 1940

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Willesden Lane; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: RG-118.02.21, Photograph of Neo-Gothic administrative building London

Photograph of Neo-Gothic administrative building London

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; London, England; Kindertransport

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 22: RG-118.02.22, Photograph of Michel Golabek and Madam De Gaulle in window

Photograph of Michel Golabek and Madam De Gaulle in window

Extent: 1 photograph

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Michel Golabek

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 23: RG-118.02.23, Purse

This purse originally belonged to Lisa Jura's great-grandmother. Lisa's mother sent it to Lisa in the U.K as the last gift she ever gave her daughter.

Subject/Index Terms:: Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Lisa Jura

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 24: RG-118.02.24, Recording of Lisa Jura playing Chopin's Polonaise, dedicated to Max

Subject/Index Terms:: Musicology and performance; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport; Lisa Jura

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 25: RG-118.02.25, Record, Concerto in A Minor

Vinyl record, Concerto in A Minor, by Wilhelm Bachaus

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Musicology and performance; German Music

Creators:: Wilhelm Bachaus

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 26: RG-118.02.26, Recording of Lisa Jura playing, dedicated to Max

Vinyl record recording of Lisa Jura playing the piano, dedicated to her boyfriend at the time, Max.

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Musicology and performance

Creators:: Lisa Jura

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 27: RG-118.02.27, Jura family portrait (framed)

Portrait of the Jura family, before the children were sent to England on a Kindertransport.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish children from German-occupied and controlled countries, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Lisa Jura

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 28: RG-118.02.28, Framed photograph of Malka Jura

Framed photograph of Malka Jura, Lisa Jura's mother

Subject/Index Terms:: Kindertransport; Lisa Jura; Jewish children from Germany, Kindertransport, photographs; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Memorialization of loved ones, perished in the Holocaust

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 29: RG-118.02.29, Michel Golabek award, Campagnes pour la liberation de la France,1945, 1945

Military award received by Michel Golabek, for 'Campagnes pour la liberation de la France' or the Campaign to liberate France, June - Dec 1944, received from General De Gaulle, for his exceptional service, dated 14 April 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Michel Golabek; Certificate of military service; Military documents, French; France (1940--1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 30: RG-118.02.30, Royal School of Music, London, certificate for Lisa Jura, 1941, 1941

Certificate from the Royal School of Music, London, to confirm that Lisa Jura was examined and passed Grade 4, 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Musicology and performance; Lisa Jura; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 31: RG-118.02.31, Second Prize, North London Musical Festival, Lisa Jura, 1944, 1944

North London Musical Festival, Second Prize, awarded to Lisa Jura, in the Piano competition, 16 May 1944

Subject/Index Terms:: Musicology and performance; Lisa Jura; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Concert and performances

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 32: RG-118.02.32, The Royal Schools of Music London, certifying Lisa Jura passed with distinction, 1942, 1942

Certificate issued by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music London, to certify that Lisa Jura passed with distinction the Pianoforte in Grade VIII (Final), 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Musicology and performance; Concert and performances; Lisa Jura; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children; Royal Academy of Music, London

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 33: RG-118.02.33, Howard Hotel, letter of employment Lisa Jura, Sept. 1945, 1945

Letter from the Howard Hotel, confirming Lisa Jura was employed to play piano at the hotel for the previous 3 months, dated Sept 13 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Concert and performances; Lisa Jura; Musicology and performance; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 34: RG-118.02.34, Letter of recommendation for Lisa Jura from Mabel Lloyd, Sept. 1942, 1942

Letter from Wigmore Hall Studios - Mabel Lloyd, introducing Lisa Jura and enquiring if there is a post available for her, dated 26 Sept. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Musicology and performance; Concert and performances; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children

Creators:: Mabel Lloyd

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 35: RG-118.02.35, Handwritten note from fan, to Lisa Jura

Handwritten note from a fan to Lisa Jura, complimenting her on her piano playing.

Subject/Index Terms:: Lisa Jura; Concert and performances; Musicology and performance; Kindertransport; Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children

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