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Eva Mosbacher, 2012

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Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHRF 9/24

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Three images taken from the Nurses registers: AHAR7/3/2/2/8 Registers of Nurses and AHAR7/3/2/4 and sent to Herr Gann for use in an exhibition in Meiningen in May-Jul 2012, Exhibition: "When you get here - Fate of a Jewish family from the Kindertransport and failed emigration " by Christopher Gann The exhibition depicts the depressing fate of the Meininger family Hedwig and Otto Mosbacher. Their 12 year old daughter Eva in 1939 reached the Kindertransport to England in safety. The correspondence between parent and daughter and other documents give an insight into the constant hope of a reunion of the family and the desperate efforts to emigrate. Hedwig and Otto Mosbacher were deported in May 1942 and victims of the Nazi genocide.

Dates

  • Creation: 2012

Biographical / Historical

In March 2012 Christoph Gann contacting the Archives about a former nurse, Eva Mosbacher. I´m preparing an exhibition about the fate of the German Jewish family Mosbacher and the Kindertransport. Hedwig and Otto Mosbacher had been deported 70 years ago and were victims of the Holocaust. Their daughter Eva (born 22.10.1926 in Nuremberg) came to England in May 1939 with the Kindertransport. She lived in Cambridge and visited the Perse School. Later she became nurse and she made her exam as nurse in 1947 very likely this had been at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital. In 1948 she wanted to be trainee nurse at the North Cambs Hospital Wisbech. In 1950 she lived in the Nurses Home at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. So she worked as a nurse in your Hospital. Unfortunately Eva Mosbacher died on the 10th November 1963 in London by suicide.

Of course it would be of great interest for me to know the exact times of Eva Mosbachers training and working at your hospital and if it is recorded, where she worked after leaving the hospital. In the death certificate it is mentioned that she had been a State Registered Nurse. Her last occupation had been in Wimbledon, but I am not sure if she really lived there.

Maybe you have pictures of Eva Mosbacher or of the nurses training at her time in your hospital, which could be used in the exhibition. Do you know if there is the possibility to see where Eva Mosbacher had worked as a nurse until her death because she had been registrated nurse?

I have made other exhibitions before, one about the deeds and the fate of Raoul Wallenberg. I am also author of a Wallenberg-biography and I am judge at the district court in Meiningen.

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

May 2012

Physical Description

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Repository Details

Part of the Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Repository

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