Braun, Otto

Birth Name Braun, Otto
Gender male

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth   Dusseldorf, Deutschland  

 
Transport August 18, 1939 Kindertransport Children’s Transport Otto Braun was 17 years old when his parents put him on a train to Holland

Event Note

Otto Braun was the youngest in his family, and his brothers and sisters were too old to be included in the Kindertransport.
Otto Braun was on one of the last trains out of Germany.
He left with only one small brown suitcase, which contained some clothing, a picture of his family, whom he never saw again, and ten Deutschmarks.
The Germans required a bounty escrow of 50 pounds for every child be paid to the Government, to fund their return trip once the war was over.

Event Note

Quakers met Otto Braun and the other children at the bahnhoff, and escorted them to Holland, and helped them board ships across the channel to England where others, Jews and Christians, met them, and sent to private homes and shelters.

 
Residence   Whittingehame Farm School, Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland Kindertransport children, age 14 t 16 years, were housed and educated

Event Note

In 1939, Otto Braun was sent to Whittinghame Farm School after he arrived in Britain via Kindertransport.
In late June, 1940, Otto Braun was arrested, and given over for special treatment, while some of his friends were sent to internment camps in places like the Isle of Mann.
He was sent to Glasgow as a prisoner.
He, and fellow Jewish prisoners, were marched through the streets of Glasgow, to be deported to Canada.

Event Note

In 1939, Ester Dobkowsky was sent to Whittinghame Farm School after she arrived in Britain via Kindertransport.
She joined a MI HA, Middle Hachshara.

Event Note

From 1939 to 1941, Joseph Folger lived at Whittinghame Farm School.

Event Note

From 1939 to 1941, Sonja Ibermann lived at Whittinghame Farm School.

Event Note

In July, Harry Nomburg went to live at Whittinghame Farm School.

Event Note

In July, 1939, Ruth Peschel went to live at Whittinghame Farm School.

Event Note

Siegfried Pollack was sent to Whittingehame Farm School, where he learned to speak English, his cousin, John Katz, having provided a German-English dictionary.
His plan of emigrating from Britain to Palestine failed.

 
Boat June, 1940 SS Arandora Star  

Event Note

Otto Braun, his fellow Jewish prisoners, and hundreds of Italians, were loaded on board.
Barbed wire was strung along the deck, railings and upper structures to be sure and keep the prisoners contained.

Event Note

Otto Braun was rescued, and put back on another ship with other German Jews, Italians and Germans, and sent to Nova Scotia for internment.
After a year, he was released and joined the Canadian Army.

 

Parents

Father Braun, Karl
Mother , Bertha

Pedigree

  1. Braun, Karl
    1. , Bertha
      1. Braun, Otto

Ancestors