Passport

Catalogue Reference:(JML) 1993.74.10a

A photograph of the nine-year-old Grete Glauber in the 'Fremdenpass' or alien passport issued by the German Third Reich which allowed her to migrate from Austria to England in 1939 as one of the 'Kindertransport' children. The Kindertransport was a programme set up to admit a number of Jewish children aged between five and 17 to England from Nazi Austria and Germany. It operated for less than a year and in that time about 10,000 children made the journey. For the vast majority of the children it proved to be a one-way journey: they never returned home or saw their parents again, most of whom were killed in the concentration camps.