'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.

Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the process; she describes the fate of the boys; maintaining contact with them; reunions and return to Butzbach and Frankfurt at the behest of the respective communities

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