Jewish Refugees, 1938, Burnley

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iBase ID

239117

Reference identifier

EBU20130621002

Title

Jewish Refugees, 1938, Burnley

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Edward Pereles

General notes

Three Jewish boys from Czechoslovakia who were taken in by the headmistress of Burnley Open Air School, Miss Ruby McKay.

Miss McKay went to Europe on an International Friendship Holiday. Here she met the parents of Edward (left) who were anxious about the threat posed by the Nazis. Ruby volunteered to take some children to Britain as a means of escape and adopt Edward if nesccessary. All of Edward's family died in Nazi concentration camps during the war, whilst he was safe in Britain.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

12.5 x 8

Year of image

1938

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Locator

F3: Jewish