Rose embroidered tablecloth carried by a Kindertransport refugee from Nazi Germany

Embroidered tablecloth carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Germany on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. Hannah was placed on the transport soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind their house in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most Kindertransport children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronheim Mayer, left for Chile on August 25, 1939, with her second husband, Otto. In October 1941, Hannah trained as a nurse and enlisted in the British Army Auxiliary Territorial Service. She served in different British Army camps from December 1941-October 1944, but was stationed in London most of the time where she was bombed out during the Blitz. She married Daniel Deutch, a Canadian soldier, in November 1943 and emigrated to Canada in November 1944. Most of Hannah's family members were killed during the Holocaust.