us-005578-irn49996-irn9732
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn49996-irn9732/alternateIDs/1
date: 1938 December
identifier: irn9732
physical characteristics and technical requirements: brown cardboard tag, string dangling from one end recto: in colored pencil"STERN/MARGO" verso: in colored pencil"666"
scope and content: Identification tag worn by Kindertransport child. Tag was given to Margot Stern in the United Kingdom with Kindertransport. Issued to Margot Stern, December 1938.
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is or was included in: us-005578-irn49996
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has or had holder: us-005578
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn49996-irn9732/acquisitions/1
record resource extent: overall: Height: 3.110 inches (7.899 cm) | Width: 24.490 inches (62.205 cm)
archival history: The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Margot Loewenberg.
title: Identification tag
biographical history: Margot Loewenberg was born in 1922 to Julius and Lily Stern in Frankfurt, Germany. She also had a younger brother named Werner. Her family managed a wholesale clothing store in downtown Frankfurt. As anti-Semitic laws began to take hold in Germany in the 1930s, the Hebrew schools which Margot attended were closed. She was sent to a children’s home in Cologne, where she learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many nearby Jewish synagogues and businesses were destroyed. Margot was then sent back to her family in Frankfurt, where the Germans had confiscated Julius’ business. With not many options, Margot was accepted on a Kindertransport, and was sent by herself to Holland, and took a boat to London. Once in England, she helped acquire affidavits for her brother and parents. After the family had made it to England, they acquired visas for immigration to the United States, and set sail in March, 1940. It was while living in Chicago that Margot met her future husband John, and they were married after his return from deployment in the U.S. Army. Margot passed away in 2013.