Renate Klapper: Personal papers

This collection contains the papers of Renate Klapper, a Jewish girl from Berlin who was sent to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to escape Nazi persecution whilst her family died at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Personal papers including her school certificates (1684/1), wartime correspondence with her mother sent via the British Red Cross Message Bureau (1684/2), honorary membership certificate of the Royal College of Midwives (1684/3), two photocopies of her will (1684/4), two copies of her death certificate (1684/5), valuation documents of two properties in Germany (1684/6), photographs (see photo archive), a travel journal of a trip to France in 1988 (1684/7), general correspondence (1684/9) and ephemera (1684/10).

Also included is a confidential letter from Fürstin von Bismarck (née Gräfin Hoyos, married to Herbert von Bismarck) to a Professor Nowak, dated 1929 (1684/8), and a recording (see audio visual archive) of the memorial service for Alexander William Henry Nicholson who worked for the Intelligence Service and was involved in the prosecution of war criminals. [It is unclear how Renate Klapper came into possession of these two records and how they relate to her].

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