| Summary: | Elizabeth Landmann kept her "refugee book" from 1938 to circa 1960. She recorded the names of children and adults whom she had assisted in escaping Nazi Germany. The book records their vital details, route of escape and destination, schooling, and career progress. In the later entries she records their marriage status and whether they eventually emigrated elsewhere. Also included is an accompanying letter from Jolanda Gottschalk explaining the book’s provenance. The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Anslerin, Heinz; Asch, Peter; Baron, Margaret; Boas, Ilse; Cohn, Helga; Cohn, Ruth; Ebstein, Johanna; Frankl, Heinrich; Frankl, Hermine; Fuchs, Werner; Georgii, Ursula; Gottschalk, Jolanda; Grintuch, Esther; Happ, Wolfgand & Vera; Herrmann, Gabriele; Joel, Marlene; Koch, Gertrud; Levy, Gerda; Lichtenstein, Lotte; Lifschitz, Eva; Loeser, Ruth; Loew, Kaethe; Marx, Rita; Metzstein, Rachel; Meyer, Klaus; Meyers, Maria; Michaelis, Ernst; Neuhof, Werner; Neumann, Eva; Peretz, Lilli; Rahmer, Hans; Reich, Gertrud; Rosenthal, Ernst; Sander, Marianne; Schoenhorn, Richard; Schwarzwald, Fanny; Seelig, Annemarie; Steilberg, Guenther; Steinberg, Ilse; Stern, Ilse; Stier, Ursula; Thau, Martin; Wittenberg, Hilde; Wolfenstein, Manfred The associated Elizabeth Landmann clippings collection holds an article on her life. Elizabeth Landmann was born in 1880 in Silesia, the daughter of a German man and British woman. She became a social worker and lived in Berlin with her son. After the November pogrom she began to help the Jewish community and individuals in arranging for children to escape to England. She helped to save about 70 people in this manner. After the war she immigrated to the United States. The Refugee book was given to Jolanda Gottschalk after Elizabeth Landmann's death. processed for digitization digitized
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