Jolanda Gottschalk, 1986

The collection consists of a "refugee book" which Elizabeth Landmann kept from 1938-ca. 1960 in which she recorded the children and adults whom she had assisted in escaping Nazi Germany. The book records their vital details, route of escape and destination, schooling, and career progress. In the later entries she records their marriage status and whether they eventually emigrated elsewhere. Please see the associated clippings collection for an article on her life

The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:

Anslerin, Heinz; Asch, Peter; Baron, Margaret; Boas, Ilse; Cohn, Helga; Cohn, Ruth; Ebstein, Johanna; Frankl, Heinrich; Frankl, Hermine; Fuchs, Werner; Georgii, Ursula; Gottschalk, Jolanda; Grintuch, Esther; Happ, Wolfgand & Vera; Herrmann, Gabriele; Joel, Marlene; Koch, Gertrud; Levy, Gerda; Lichtenstein, Lotte; Lifschitz, Eva; Loeser, Ruth; Loew, Kaethe; Marx, Rita; Metzstein, Rachel; Meyer, Klaus; Meyers, Maria; Michaelis, Ernst; Neuhof, Werner; Neumann, Eva; Peretz, Lilli; Rahmer, Hans; Reich, Gertrud; Rosenthal, Ernst; Sander, Marianne; Schoenhorn, Richard; Schwarzwald, Fanny; Seelig, Annemarie; Steilberg, Guenther; Steinberg, Ilse; Stern, Ilse; Stier, Ursula; Thau, Martin; Wittenberg, Hilde; Wolfenstein, Manfred

Elizabeth Landmann was born in 1880 in Silesia, the daughter of a German man and British woman. She became a social worker and lived in Berlin with her son. After the November pogrom she began to help the Jewish community and individuals in arranging for children to escape to England. She helped to save about 70 people in this manner. After the war she eventually emigrated to the United States

Refugee book was given to Mrs. Gottschalk after Elizabeth Landmann's death

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