Charlotte Hülsen, née Pinner (1906-1944), mother of the donor, is the presumed author of the typescript recipe book in this collection. She owned a cookery school in Hohenzollernstrasse, Breslau, where the family lived. Charlotte was deported to Theresienstadt and died in Auschwitz in 1943. The recipe book remained in the hands of Anni Goldstein née Jonas, whose sister, Erna Jonas, worked in the Hülsen family household. Anni worked in the Jewish hospital in Hohenzollernstrasse.
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Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to listen to the audio interview with the donor Recipe book and other papers including audio interview of Peter Hulsen who describes being born in Breslau, into a wealthy, secular Jewish household; coming to Great Britain on the last Kindertransport; staying in an orphanage in Brighton for 5 years; an interview with Anna Essinger and subsequent stay of 9 months at Bunce Court School; a career in retail including 30 years at Marks and Spencer; survival of his father who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials and also at Bletchley Park
Peter Hulsen collection