Red Cross telegrams between the Kuhn family

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Telegrams between Hannele Kuhn and her parents highlight family separation during the Holocaust.
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These Red Cross telegrams from Franz and Hertha Kuhn in Berlin to their daughter Hannele, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain on one of the Kindertransports, give a moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis.

Pictured is her parents' last letter, dated 22 June 1942, which, having been re-read some 50 years later by Hannele, is thought to be a farewell letter, containing words of advice on how to lead her life.

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