Letter from Viktor Schwarz to the Society of Friends in London requesting a permit out of Austria for his son

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Date:1939

Description:When Hans Schwarz was 16 years old his father Viktor, a bank clerk, arranged for him to escape from Vienna under the sponsorship of the Society of Friends’ Germany Emergency Committee. They organised a training post for him in Birmingham with Cadbury. Hans arrived in Birmingham in early May 1939 and lived with other refugees at 7 Maple Road, Bournville.

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