Muehlstein family: Papers

This collection contains the family papers of the Muehlstein family, Jewish refugees from Vienna.

Family papers including correspondence and supporting documents relating to restitution and pension claims and war-time Red Cross correspondence between parents and children. Also included is a photograph of Erika and Herbert Muehlstein before their emigration in 1937.

In an audio interview the donor describes: being born in Vienna 2 years after her brother in 1932; how her father was beaten up and persecuted by the Nazis; how her brother, who was also badly affected followed his sister after a few months to Great Britain on the Kindertransport; how her father raided the family business after it had been expropriated by the Nazis and took jewellry to support his escape to Belgium; her parents remained in Belgium in hiding throughout the war and two more children, daughters; Erika stayed initially in South London then was evacuated to Sussex then Wales. Erika was fostered separately from her brother; how she ended up in Birmingham in a home where she was badly treated; how the two siblings were eventualy reunited with their uncle, Richard Ullman, a former football player for the Austrian national team; how the whole family became reunited after the war for a short period but the parents continued to live in Belgium and Erika and Herbert in England

Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access an audio interview with the donor.