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Marie Jahoda über ihren Neffen Franz C(arl) Jahoda The liquidation of Edi [Jahoda]'s business [in 1938/39; R.M.] had proved to be extremely complex, so that he could not get his exit papers. They decided to send Franz [Jahoda], then 8 years old, with a children's transport to my care. I went up to London to collect him. Standing at Victoria1 with hundreds of foster mothers, the one next to me, seeing Franz, who was a lovely looking little boy, said: That's the one I would like. But Franz, seeing me, burst into tears. Putting him on the train his father [i.e. Eduard Jahoda] had told him that he would see the Channel before seeing me. Now he realised he had slept through the crossing. Most children were, of course, assigned to strangers; I still remember their stony faces.Franz was lucky, but he had a very tough time. I took him to Bristol. A few days later, he came down with scarlet fever, fortunately a light case and he recovered quickly. Mr. [Crofton Endres] Gane2 had procured for him a free place in a near-by boarding school [...]. Franz hated the school for good reasons: not only was his English virtually non-existent and there was nobody there with any German which was bad enough; it also emerged that the school was short of school uniform caps and this isolated, non-communicating little boy was also the one without a cap. [...] His English improved, of course, but the final rescue arrived only with his parents who came with an English transit visa to await their emigration to the States. Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 65-66.
1 Victoria:
Victoria Station ist einer der beiden Londoner Bahnhöfe, in welchen
der gesamte Bahnverkehr mit dem europäischen Festland abgewickelt
wird. Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
2 Crofton
Endres Gane (Bristol 1878 - ?): Inhaber des großen Möbelgeschäfts
»P.E. Gane, Ltd.« in Bristol, hatte damals Marie Jahoda ihren
ersten bezahlten Arbeitsplatz in Großbritannien verschafft, der
drei Monate währte: eine Untersuchung
über Möbelgeschmack und Kaufgewohnheiten;
vgl. Marie Jahoda: The
consumer's attitude to furniture: a market research. From
material assembled by Marie Jahoda on behalf of Messrs. P.E. Gane,
Ltd, in: The Sociological Review (Ledbury, Herefordshire), 38. Bd.,
Sektion 3 (1946), S. 205-246.
Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
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