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A good news tweet from the US Holocaust Museum and some follow up info
Link to tweet
source-https://portal.ehri-project.eu/units/us-005578-irn521020
much more info there
snip-"Following Kristallnacht, Georg decided that the family had to leave Germany. Hilde and her sisters applied to go to Great Britain on a Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. Georg’s brother Leo lived there and was willing to take the three girls. On June 12, 1939, Hilde, Eva, and Dodi left Berlin by train. When they reached Bremen, the Gestapo searched their luggage for valuables and dumped their belongings, so carefully packed by their mother, on the ground. They sailed on the SS Europa and arrived in England on June 14"
snip-"On September 20, 1940, the Anker family sailed from Liverpool on the SS Nova Scotia, arriving in Boston on October 5."
I am really happy to post some good news here for a change