We have a new search on our Press Photo History Project. We have been commissioned to help find an image showing two young girls who had just arrived in London from Vienna with the Kinderstransport at the beginning of WWII.
Detail: Here is the story detail so far from Selma’s granddaughter who is leading the search for the family.
Selma Reichman arrived in London from Vienna on Friday, 23 Dec 1938, with the Kinderstransport.
She was 10 years old, leaving her parents and her baby sister (who were all murdered in Auschwitz later) in Vienna and never saw them again.
…she told us that she remembers some photographer taking a picture of her with another girl – Selma Moses (who was about 6 years old on that time) at the railway station of Liverpool St. on the day they came from Vienna to England – Friday, 23 Dec 1938; and it was published in some newspaper later. They were asked to stand in front of each other and smile.
So we are appealing to newspaper archives and press agencies to search there files for the 23 Dec 1938 …and possibly discover that photograph! – FULL details on the PPHP site – Thanks !