Ruth Ibbitson (née Peschel) collection

This collection contains the personal papers of Ruth Peschel, a Jewish girl from Breslau who emigrated on a Kindertransport to the UK in 1939.

These comprise correspondence with her family including a letter from her brother in Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as documents, including: work reference, police clearance certificate, tax clearance certificate, police notice of departure, identity card for young persons admitted to the UK under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children and short life histories. There are digital copies of her passport and steamship ticket.

Documents belonging to relatives includes the translated marriage certificate of her parents, birth certificate of her mother Helene Jakobowitz and transcript of the birth register entry for Ruth's brother Emanuel Peschel. Also included are photographs and planning permission (with plans) for an estate in Schoppinitz, Upper Silesia (Szopienice, Poland), owned by Rosalin Grünbaum, a relative of Ruth's grandmother.