Daat Hachewrah – Bulletin of the Kinder-Transport Children at the Gwrych Castle (Wales) – Lag BaOmer, May 1940

Daat Hachewrah – Bulletin of the Kinder-Transport Children at the Gwrych Castle (Wales) – Lag BaOmer, May 1940
Daat Hachewrah, a bulletin printed by boys and girls who had escaped Germany as part of the Kinder Transport and were housed in the Gwrych Castle (Northern Wales). Editors: Erich Roper, Karl Schäfler, Eli Freier and Mary Auskerin. Gwrych Castle, May 26 [1940]. German, some Hebrew and some English (mimeographed manuscript and typescript).
This issue was dedicated to Lag BaOmer 1940. It opens with two sermons, one in Hebrew and the other in German, dealing with the heroes of the festival and their martyrdom for Kiddush Hashem. Following, news on the recruitment of Jews from Palestine to the British Army, articles written by the children in the Castle, and more. On the third page, news item on a new duplicating machine brought to the castle, manufactured by Gestetner, with an illustration of the machine.
The Gwrych Castle was built in ca. 14th century in Conwy County Borough, northern Wales, and was expanded in the early 19th century. In 1939, after the events of the Kristallnacht, the inheritor of the Castle, Lord Dundonald, agreed to house in it approx. 200 children that had reached England as part of the Kinder-Transport. In the Castle the children observed a religious Jewish lifestyle, were trained for agricultural work and even established a religious yeshiva managed by Shmuel Sperber.
[6] leaves (numbered 1-5, 5). The last article of the issue is complete; yet, possibly, one or several pages are missing. Good condition. A horizontal fold line and creases. Some stains. Small tears and stained pinholes to margins (without the original staples. The leaves are reconnected with a new staple).
Rare.
Provenance: The collection of Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber.