Jewish adults coming to the UK 1930s
There was a
lot of unemployment in the UK - giving Jews work may have antagonised people and
led to anti-Semitic feelings.
Käthe
would have needed an exit visa form Germany and an entry visa for the UK.
She would
have had to find a job to get the entry visa to the UK.
Käthe
was lucky in that she managed to process all of the paper work and find work
but:
She was separated
from her daughter who was evacuated.
She had to
live through the blitz in London.
Her husband
was stuck in Germany.
She might be
considered as an enemy by her neighbours.
Task Write a diary entry for Käthe
London during World War II
There were frequent
air raids. People had to go to communal shelters, use shelters in their own
homes or gardens or go down into the Underground.
Käthe
survived the Blitz but a few of her belongings didn’t; the warehouse where they
were stored was hit by an incendiary bomb.
Look at this
description of the Blitz.
Pretend to
be Käthe
and write a letter to Renate about what it was like.
Enemy Aliens
Käthe
was classed as an Enemy Alien class B. Normally as a German Jews she would
have been C but he connection with Hans Edler, working on German defence altered that.
She had to:
Report to
the police every day
Keep away from
munitions factories and the coast.
Be home by
10. p.m.
Käthe has accidentally broken one of the rules. Imagine her conversation with a police
officer.
You could even rehearse and present the conversation to your
class mates.
