Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Kurt Beckhardt was brought to a camp at Barham, near Claydon, where he and many other boys were housed, until the Battle of Britain began.
He was then sent to Wallingford Farm Training Colony, Oxfordshire, and then to Sheffield., where he lived in a hostel at 7 Priory Place that was hit during the Sheffield Blitz.
He was moved to the Great Synagogue on Wilson Road, and then to a hostel that was run by a Mr. Roberton, a and member of the Peace Pledge Union.

In July, 1939, Gerald Frey sailed from Bremerhaven, one of 90 Jewish children sponsored for refuge.
It would be the last time he would see his family.

On June 13, 1939, Kurt Beckhardt sailed on SS Europa.

Kurt Beckhardt was sent to a camp at Barham near Claydon, in Suffolk, where he and many other boys stayed until the Battle of Britain began.

Kurt Beckhardt was sent to Wallingford Farm Training Colony in Oxfordshire, and a few weeks later to Sheffield.

Kurt Beckhardt was moved to the Great Synagogue on Wilson Road, and then to a hostel that was run by a Mr. Roberton, a and member of the Peace Pledge Union.