TEDDY BEAR CARRIED BY A CHILD ON A KINDERTRANSPORT

ID: 823 ~ Source: US Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Hellman ~ Date: 1939
This file appears in: On the Border
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Teddy bear belonging to Jack Hellman as a child. He carried it with him when he left for England from Germany on a Kindertransport in early 1939.

This file appears in: On the Border

By Susan Heinemann Berman
"And then they went on with 1000 children on that transport. They had a very harrowing experience. And they got to the border of Holland and Germany. And the soldiers there-- the German soldiers-- they boarded the train. And they harassed…