| Description | Else Rosenfeld actuality. Else speaks about preparing to leave Germany, and other countries' attitudes to the prospect of Jewish immigration.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.26 mins
Track 2: Else sings in German, then comments "Our children loved that", 0.31 mins
Track 3: Else speaks about considering which country her family could emigrate to. She speaks about the restrictions the Nazis placed on what personal belongings and money that Jewish people could takeout of the country. Else's family pack up their belongings in April 1939, 2.05 mins
Track 4: Else speaks about the toll her family paid for the amount of belongings that they packed (1 800 Marks), and about the possessions that they were forced to give up for a nominal amount of money. Else relates that "the ordinary people" of Germany were kept unaware of the above new regulations, and that non-Jewish people thought that the Nazis had gone too far after the events of November 1938; "a vast number of German people didn't know that that happened to us", 2.12 mins
Track 5: Else speaks about being troubled about the European countries and America's apathy towards what was happening in Germany. She feels that Jewish people were not welcome anywhere with the exception of England "at first". She speaks about Jewish parents wanting their children to escape to England and how over the summer she accompanied Bavarian children to catch the train from Frankfurt to get to England, 2.18 mins
Track 6: Else speaks about how her children were too old to take the Kindertransport, but how the Quakers helped. She speaks about how her sister's Belgian employer helped pay for her son left Germany to go to Surrey (April 1939) and Else's youngest daughter leaves Germany in May. Else speaks about the "relief and agony" that she and her husband feel of having to send their children away, 2.22 mins
Track 7: Else recounts preparing for herself and her husband to leave for England, applying for a job (her Husband would not be able to work in England, but Else could) and permits to travel. She speaks about knowing "that war was near" and that her husband was warned of the deadline for getting a visa before it would not be possible again, 1.40 mins
Track 8: Else tells of how her papers did not arrive, and why she felt that she had to convince her husband to leave without her. Else also describes how on every public building, entrances to villages and hamlets there were posters forbidding Jews from entering, 1.58 mins
Track 9: Else speaks about how it felt to be separated from her husband of 19 years. 0.39 mins
Total: 14.15 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0513180 |