Metadata : Private Papers of Mrs D H Gaffen
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth Road London Greater London United Kingdom SE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial War Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial War Museum
- Postal address:
- Lambeth Road London Greater London United Kingdom SE1 6HZ
- Email:
- Email: contact@iwm.org.uk
- Reference number:
- Documents.1817
- Title:
- Private Papers of Mrs D H Gaffen
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of Mrs D H Gaffen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gaffen, D H
- Date(s):
- 1939/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Ts account (30pp), written in 1990, describing her childhood as a member of a Jewish family in Ealing, West London (1927 - 1939), her evacuation with her school to Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire where she was billeted in the local manor house (September 1939 - September 1940) and her and her twin younger sisters' evacuation under the `Boston Transcript' scheme to the United States (September 1940 - October 1945), with particular reference to their Atlantic crossing on the liner ANTONIA in September 1940, their temporary accommodation in New York and their subsequent life with very prosperous Jewish foster parents in Chicago until her passage home on the AQUITANIA in October 1945 and the twins' temporary return home a year later. The memoir, which contains some interesting details about their home life, education and social activities in the United States and the long-term effects on the three children of their evacuation, is accompanied by three letters from the US Department of Justice, 1942 - 1944, granting Mrs Gaffen (under her maiden name of Woolf) annual extensions of stay in the United States.
- Access points: locations:
- Ealing
- London
- United States
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gaffen, D H
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Gaffen, D H
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030002413
- Reference number:
- Documents.1817
- Title:
- Private Papers of Mrs D H Gaffen
- Title (official language):
- Private Papers of Mrs D H Gaffen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gaffen, D H
- Date(s):
- 1939/1945
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Ts account (30pp), written in 1990, describing her childhood as a member of a Jewish family in Ealing, West London (1927 - 1939), her evacuation with her school to Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire where she was billeted in the local manor house (September 1939 - September 1940) and her and her twin younger sisters' evacuation under the `Boston Transcript' scheme to the United States (September 1940 - October 1945), with particular reference to their Atlantic crossing on the liner ANTONIA in September 1940, their temporary accommodation in New York and their subsequent life with very prosperous Jewish foster parents in Chicago until her passage home on the AQUITANIA in October 1945 and the twins' temporary return home a year later. The memoir, which contains some interesting details about their home life, education and social activities in the United States and the long-term effects on the three children of their evacuation, is accompanied by three letters from the US Department of Justice, 1942 - 1944, granting Mrs Gaffen (under her maiden name of Woolf) annual extensions of stay in the United States.
- Access points: locations:
- Ealing
- London
- United States
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gaffen, D H
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Gaffen, D H
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Visit IWM website for Research Room access provisions see https://www.iwm.org.uk/research/research-facilities
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030002413
