The list of the so-called Kindertransport finally helped us - this is a list of Jewish children who were given the possibility to flee to England without their parents on the eve of the Second World War. With no more than a suitcase, a bag and 10 Reichsmark, this is how approximately 10,000 Jewish children were saved from the Nazi regime.
Once they had arrived in England, they were looked after in foster homes. The records of one of these homes contained the name of the brother we were searching for. The brother fortunately had had a "sponsor" assigned by the British government. We asked his children about the whereabouts of the legator´s brother and found out that the latter had emigrated via Shanghai to Canada at the age of 18.
Soon after we were able to trace the descendants of this brother in Ottawa and informed them about their uncle’s fate. («) |
