A Post Office Overseas Telegram sent by Franz Kuhn, 17 March 1939.
This is a telegram sent by Franz Kuhn to Millie Levy on 17 March 1939. The telegram details how Franz and Hertha’s daughter Hannah (Hannele) has been granted a place on the Kindertransport and will be making the journey from Berlin to London soon. The telegram concludes by thanking Millie Levy and her sister who will provide refuge for Hannah at their home in London upon her arrival in Great Britain.
A Red Cross Telegram sent by Franz Kuhn, c.4 February 1943.
The is a telegram sent by Franz Kuhn to Millie Levy c.4 February 1943. The telegram is one of the last sent from Hannele’s (Hannah) father to the Levy sisters, her guardians in Great Britain, and it details the deportation of Hannele’s mother Hertha on 14 December 1942. According to the Berlin Memorial Book to Jews deported by the Nazis, Hertha perished in Riga. Franz also mentions how terrified he was about the future but remains hopeful for a reunion. Franz was deported a few weeks later to Auschwitz, where he perished.
