Over in the UK, Anthony de Rothschild and his wife Yvonne (pictured with her children) had noticed tensions in Europe as early as the 1930s. In fall 1933, Yvonne became president of a society which aimed to help German Jewish women and children, while in 1938 Anthony became chair of the Emigration Committee of the Council of the German Jewry. Anthony’s private letters reveal his involvement in helping Jewish refugees with resettlement during the war.

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